Evaluation Question 4 - How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluating stages? - Part 1

RESEARCH AND PLANNING
YouTube - www.youtube.com
I used YouTube a lot in my research and planning, it let me embed videos into my research to then show what I mean in a physical sense, rather than just trying to explain it. I used music videos to then take inspiration from, what shots we can use, editing techniques etc. and helped us further out development into our products. We also used YouTube to find out how musc video editors use a certain editing technique and find out how they do it.
Facebook - www.facebook.com
Facebook has definitely helped me in terms of research, we decided as a group to make a 'group chat', so then if any of us have any ideas we want to put forward, we can use this chat to then talk to each other, which makes it very convenient because we are all very regular users of Facebook.

We had a couple of skills development activities, especially in video editing

We had a whole day of making a music video with professionals in the business, and this then helped us out with getting advice from people who know what they're talking about.

Our first exercise was in the A2 fortnight, and had to recreate a music video, this introduced us to filming and editing. 

This was an exercise in editing skills, to test whether or not to make cuts at certain places, such as synchronised beats.  

We researched our audience by going in depth of our chosen genre and then picking out social groups of people who we think listen to that genre. We then went into depth about that social groups interests and stereotypical hobbies and the kind of bands they listen to, so we researched some bands and their websites and digipaks etc, and this gave us inspiration on how to base our products onto then fit the genre that we chose.

We also created an animatic, this then gave us an overall view of how we wanted our video to look, and how it comes together. It also shows which shots we want to use when and where, and we can put in the 'salt and pepper' moments. For this, we used final cut pro, to we also used a scanner to scan all the images of the shots in, and put them into the video with the backing track in the background.