Evaluation Question 4

4. How have you used new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

We used blogger to update our work that we did in our groups. Blogger was a useful site that we used because we had the advantage of posting pictures and other people (teacher and friends) can post comments. All the research, planning, permission, and evaluation are in the blog.

We used YouTube to research similar music, then we analysed the music we had researched, confirmed our music choice as a group.

Google was one of the sites we used the most, if there was something we had to research on or get some background information on something or if we needed any pictures then Google was the first thing that came to mind.

As Alex has a similar style to what we chose for the costumes, we have chose the following outfits from ASOS.com based on the knowledge of Alex's style.

Our model Emma Yates has her own lookbook online (www.lookbook.nu/emmayates)

so we have taken the photographs of her outfits from that, it is exactly how we want her to look, classy and sophisticated but also sexy. She is perfect for our music video.

We used some fonts for our magazine from http://www.dafont.com/. This was a helpful site because it had a variety of fonts for us to choose from for our coursework.

Facebook is a good site because facebook allows us (group) and friends to comment on our music video.



We used a camera for recording our music video and taking pictures of the bedroom, shot lists story boards etc.

We used a memory card to save our files and the music video itself. Without the memory card our coursework would have been much harder because we wouldn’t have been able to save the work. The memory card was useful because it meant that we could easily transfer files from the camera into the computer then finally the blog.

We used Photoshop to edit our pictures. We cropped pictures, added effects, inserted backgrounds etc.

We used premiere elements to edit our music video, to add effects, edit and crop shots. We could also add music to the video and edit the music too.

For our Animatics we used windows movie maker, we added our shots that we took with our camera, added music to the background, and this gave us a rough idea of how our music video would look like after it’s all done.

We used a memory stick (hard drive) to take our work home and we worked on it while we were at home, some files were too large to be uploaded on to our email.

Risk assessment

shot list

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Digipak 2 - Analysis

This is the front cover to James Morrisons album 'undiscovered' It is a very simple layout, and seeing as it was James Morrisons first album it is a very establishing shot, which shows the audience who he is and what he looks like, which is showed by this close up. The plain background allows full focus on the artist and with the writing on the left side and in green, contrasts with the cream background. Having James Morrison looking down, is different to most other albums where the artist is looking up or to the sides, this gives the effect  that the atrist may be reflecting in his music or showing a more humble side to Morrison's personality.

This is the back of the album 'Undiscovered' it is very plain and simple again, displaying the song titles, copyright information and barcode. The font is in capitals and is the same as the one used on the front cover, the font and colour also suggests the artist is male. The image is very minimalistic and dull, it allows the text to stand out and the main focus to be on the artist and the front cover.

costumes and props

Costumes and Props

Costumes

ALEX
As Alex has a similar style to what we chose for the costumes, we have chose the following outfits from ASOS.com based on the knowledge of Alex's style.

Skinny jeans.

Formal Shirt (Dressed down)

Plain polo shirt.

Stipey t-shirt.

EMMA

Our model Emma Yates has her own lookbook online (www.lookbook.nu/emmayates)

so we have taken the photographs of her outfits from that, it is exactly how we want her to look, classy and sophisticated but also sexy. She is perfect for our music video.

Props

Vase and flowers

These used in the opening of the music video, a still mid shot of the vase on the floor with the flowers damaged and falling out of the vase - the damaged effect shows there has being some sort of violence and the flower suggest it is something to do with a relationshipsor a loved ones.

Photo frame
This is used to show a picture of the couple also in the opening of the music video, which establishes the couple that are in the video and the relationship they once had. It is also used later on when the male in the video is lying on his bed looking at the photograph as if he is remembering what their relationship was like.