Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction ,research, planning and evaluation stages?

Research and Planning

Research & PlanningFor our research into the indie genre, I used Google as a search engine on the internet, to find websites and slides from Slideshare to gain an understanding of the conventions of indie. I also used youtube to analyse different music videos from different genres including indie to gain an understanding of the structure and making of music videos and the conventions they consist of. For audience research we created a questionnaire from Survey nuts and sent the link through Whatsapp and Facebook (social media) to discover what our target audience liked ,disliked and enjoyed from music videos to use for our video to hopefully achieve successful audience feedback.

We used whatsapp for group discussions for planning dates and communication with one another regarding our production.I used presentation websites such as Google slides , Slideshare and Emaze to present my findings. From this we created a storyboard using a website Storyboardthat for our narrative , along with shot lists for locations using Google Docs, location recces by using my iphone 5 as we were about to start filming. I also researched into editing as I had little experience. I used youtube tutorial videos to research how to add black and white effects with adobe premiere pro editing software to add to our music video. I used Google drive to save the majority of research and photos to ensure it is safely saved.

Construction 700D

Canon 700D

Iphone 5

Canon Camera and Tripod used in all locations.

ConstructionFor the production part of our video , we used a Canon 700D Camera to film and also take pictures in the studio for the digipak. A Tripod was used with the camera for good quality straight shots from different locations, this was very useful as it allowed us to get many wide shots of locations like Beckton and Monument. The only unnatural lighting that was used was in the photoshoot in the studio for the digipak , as we used back and side lighting and flash from the camera to highlight the artist .

Once we had our footage , we uploaded it to Adobe premiere pro, which we used to edit. And used Photoshop to edit the photoshoot and a still image from filming for the digipak. I used my Iphone to take photos of the locations for the location recce.

I used Google drive to save all my footage and photos to ensure it was safely saved.

Evaluation For this evaluation (Question 4) I used previous methods of presentation with the use of Google slides to Slideshare for this question. But I wanted to add something different.

Question 3 is a video filmed with a Canon 1300 D camera , specifically to capture the audience feedback, with the use of a Google slide presentation in the video to assist the presenting within the video. After I created another Google slide and uploaded it to Slideshare on the audience feedback conclusion

Question 2 is presented by Kizoa a photo video maker that I created a vocal and visual presentation , by recording my voice with my Iphone on voice recorder and adding it to the video then uploading it to Youtube.

Question 1 is typed on the evaluation post on my blog itself, as using a online presentation tool would have made it lengthy and prolonged to follow.