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Wednesday, 12 May 2010
How did you use new technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages?
The technologies I was intended to use was my laptop, and programs such as Sony Vegas, the camera files which I reordered with worked well with my program I was using, unlike the troubles it brought with using it within school.
I had recorded all most to the T with my music video and my story board, and id put most of it all together with a perfect sync between music and videos, especially the gutairing and because the whole rendering took around an hour on a laptop I never got round to rendering. I started on my digipak and I used Photoshop 7, which worked well with my idea of having a ying and yang effect within the music and the CD/DVD combo.
When it got closer to handing in the coursework, my laptop broke, the motherboard had basically burned out and broke, and I had lost all my work.
So in two day I had to re-write a story board which had to keep a story line, and be able to be recorded within the area my school is in, I had two days to plan, get my actors together and then put together, then redesign a Digipak, then sort out my blog to fit in, and rewrite parts of my evaluation, the longest part was making sure I had rendered in a proper format and this was because it could take from 10 mins to an hour, and I had to do it within school time because I didn’t have the software at home, id put the current video together within an hour and half, and then another 2 hours to render sort out any problems I found and then re-render and then upload to YouTube and then put it on my blog.
Because I had recorded before I was able to work out a time scale and over the two days I had managed to record my music video, and then start to put it together.
The digipak re-do I done on my Desktop computer at home, this was harder than before because I didn’t have programs I worked with on a regular basis, but I luckily had Adobe fireworks which I had a past knowledge within using, and I also used Microsoft paint, which actually come in handy for the writing because my program had “internal error accord” pop up every time I pushed a key. And then Microsoft image editor to Finnish the pictures of and save them in the right format.
Other than that I did not use any other programs and didn’t have any other issues.
I used YouTube, and Google. sites to host videos and other files for my blog, which I then linked to my Blog: my YouTube account: http://www.youtube.com/user/lee577
I had recorded all most to the T with my music video and my story board, and id put most of it all together with a perfect sync between music and videos, especially the gutairing and because the whole rendering took around an hour on a laptop I never got round to rendering. I started on my digipak and I used Photoshop 7, which worked well with my idea of having a ying and yang effect within the music and the CD/DVD combo.
When it got closer to handing in the coursework, my laptop broke, the motherboard had basically burned out and broke, and I had lost all my work.
So in two day I had to re-write a story board which had to keep a story line, and be able to be recorded within the area my school is in, I had two days to plan, get my actors together and then put together, then redesign a Digipak, then sort out my blog to fit in, and rewrite parts of my evaluation, the longest part was making sure I had rendered in a proper format and this was because it could take from 10 mins to an hour, and I had to do it within school time because I didn’t have the software at home, id put the current video together within an hour and half, and then another 2 hours to render sort out any problems I found and then re-render and then upload to YouTube and then put it on my blog.
Because I had recorded before I was able to work out a time scale and over the two days I had managed to record my music video, and then start to put it together.
The digipak re-do I done on my Desktop computer at home, this was harder than before because I didn’t have programs I worked with on a regular basis, but I luckily had Adobe fireworks which I had a past knowledge within using, and I also used Microsoft paint, which actually come in handy for the writing because my program had “internal error accord” pop up every time I pushed a key. And then Microsoft image editor to Finnish the pictures of and save them in the right format.
Other than that I did not use any other programs and didn’t have any other issues.
I used YouTube, and Google. sites to host videos and other files for my blog, which I then linked to my Blog: my YouTube account: http://www.youtube.com/user/lee577
In what ways does your media project use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media texts?
When I first started to draw up a design for my story board I wanted the video to run along side the lyrics like most of the other songs I listen to, and what their videos do, the reason for this is because it makes it easier for the audience to understand, so I thought of different ideas within my music genre and what that type of audience want to watch and listen to, I didn’t want to stray to far away from what I watch within the rock genre and their softer more meaningful songs, so I wanted to keep the basic out line, and the only way I would add my own little extra was to have a different meanings within the scenes for example, for scene 9, were I have my actor looking through the window I decided to do this because the lyrics say I should have seen it all along, so I used the window to show that it was clear to see (window), but yet there was still something in the way (glass), and another way that someone who read through the scenes said that it looks like the female was cheating and the actor was looking in on her cheating.
I didn’t want to change to much about the genre that I was aiming at because of the audience, as with the reason I didn’t try to change or challenge in any way, my media project was made for the audience and what they wanted to watch, I do feel I developed on helping to get the meaning out, and giving a story to the lyrics.
Companies such as IMG who have Nickelback’s record deal, want to make music and videos which appeal to the audience that watch their videos and I stuck by the same layout of videos within this genre of music.
I didn’t want to change to much about the genre that I was aiming at because of the audience, as with the reason I didn’t try to change or challenge in any way, my media project was made for the audience and what they wanted to watch, I do feel I developed on helping to get the meaning out, and giving a story to the lyrics.
Companies such as IMG who have Nickelback’s record deal, want to make music and videos which appeal to the audience that watch their videos and I stuck by the same layout of videos within this genre of music.
What have you learned from your audience feedback?
I didn’t really do much feed back within my project, I had some people fill in a questionnaire and in the long run, I didn’t really use there feed back because I had already made up the idea for my music video, and for this I went my other videos in with the genre my music is within, for example I used Crossfade and I was looking at their other videos and then looked at bands such as Hinder, Nickelback and 3 days grace were most of their videos follow the basic out line of their lyrics, and this is what I wanted to do with my song, have a rough story to outline the lyrics, and with some of the scenes have a different meaning, to give my video a post modern stance within the film industry.
I did use the feedback just to look at the current trends within a variety of music goers, I feel that if I done this at the beginning it may of changed the music I would have done, for example the teacher told us to choose a song to use that hadn’t already had a video to help with our creativity, I feel if we had looked at the research and done the questionnaires before we were told to choose a song, and this could change what we used. But the good thing about doing it this way was people used songs that they wanted to do which gave a wide variety of music being used.
I didn’t get any after feed back because after I lost all my videos I had to work on the video and recording and didn’t have any time to have a proper formal showing with feedback, I did show a couple of people my video after and they liked it, a couple of scenes showed other scenes that flashed at the end and then moved on to the next and then there was also a little bit of distortion with in the sound which was pointed out.
I did use the feedback just to look at the current trends within a variety of music goers, I feel that if I done this at the beginning it may of changed the music I would have done, for example the teacher told us to choose a song to use that hadn’t already had a video to help with our creativity, I feel if we had looked at the research and done the questionnaires before we were told to choose a song, and this could change what we used. But the good thing about doing it this way was people used songs that they wanted to do which gave a wide variety of music being used.
I didn’t get any after feed back because after I lost all my videos I had to work on the video and recording and didn’t have any time to have a proper formal showing with feedback, I did show a couple of people my video after and they liked it, a couple of scenes showed other scenes that flashed at the end and then moved on to the next and then there was also a little bit of distortion with in the sound which was pointed out.
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