Thursday 6 March 2014

Task 4:The Use of Media Technology in the Construction Research and Planning and Evaluation Stages



Digital technology has been crucial during both pre and post production stages. The digital technology that were used are digital camera including iPhone and Sony NX5, B
logger website, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Youtube, Google, and Wix website to create a website for the artist.

During preproduction, a lot of work has been put into research and planning as it is important for the campaign to be able to identify the conventions of artist and music video. According to Richard Dyer, in order to sell the artist, the star image needed to be fulfill, to achieve this I used the Google website to look into many artists' websites in order to find the convention of the real and organic artists' websites. Those website that I had looked through were of John Mayer's, Katy Perry and C2C. C2C is the original band that perform the song "Down the Road" that I choose to make the music video to promote. I also used Youtube as a part of my research as i need to look at artists that share the similar genre to my artist, Dance and alternative, as I need to look into their star images that have been successfully established and try to recreate something similar for my artist, Luella Rouge.

I also created animatic for my music video by using Sony NX5 to film the storyboard and used Final Cut Pro to edit the ruses footage from the storyboard. My personal iPhone's camera was also used to capture the process of making the animatic and research.


During postproduction, Google was also used to make a research and prepare me for making a CD digipak to help with the campaign to market my artist. CD digipak were solely made by my iphone camera and Photoshop as all the footage that are used were taken by myself and use the photoshop to edit them into the CD album cover . Website was create after the music video was made and in order to do this I used the website called "Wix". Wix is the website that enables people to create their website for their own use with free of charge. I also used Blogger website to record most, if not all, of the process during post, pre and the production stages.


Task 4: Director's Commentary Video

Monday 24 February 2014

Task 4: Preparation - Director's Commentary Script


DOWN THE ROAD:
Molly: throughout this music video commentary we are going to be talking about how we used digital technology all the way through the course to create a successful creative product.

Archie: During the pre-production one of our set tasks was to create an animatic for our music video, in order to do this, we had to film each frame of our story board with a Sony NX5 camera. After filming each frame of the story board we uploaded the footage onto final cut pro.

Giorgio: We cut the shots together using final cut pro, this helped us to realise what the finished product would look like.

Shane: After finishing the animatic we posted it onto blogger. Blogger is a site that we used throughout the media course, it is a great piece of online software because it allows you to have an ongoing diary of the progress throughout the course.

Molly: We also considered google as a very important platform because it gave us direct access to online media featuring on sites such as YouTube and twitter, Which allowed us to share and collaborate and take influence from existing videos and artists.

Archie: Another way in which we used google as a tool was for our research and planning stages of our course, it gave us the access to videos, pictures and web information, as a result it helped us on our way to creating a good product because it was less time consuming.

Giorgio: Wesch argues that information is shared throughout the world using different platforms such as google and YouTube, this allowed us to research audiences, artists and locations relevant to our project, doing this all via web 2.0.

Molly: On the shoot day we used a vast amount of digital technologies, however, the most important one would be the camera. We Used a Sony FS100 with various lenses of a fixed focal length for the different shot sizes we wished to create. We also used a digital clapperboard for lip sync purposes.

Archie: Another piece of technology that was extremely useful on the shoot day was a camera placed on the ceiling of the studio what this achieved was a time-lapse of the shoot day.

Shane: The reason why we decided to use this was because we felt that it was important to show the details of the production because our target audience can really capture and understand the atmosphere that we were trying to portray.

Giorgio: This was great because it allowed us to look back and see exactly what happened on the shoot day, another advantage of using this meant that we could see the progress of the shoot day and the creative as well as the decision making aspect.

Shane: for the post production of our video we used various amounts of digital technologies to achieve what we wanted to, we made use mainly of Photoshop for the editing of our CD digipack. We made use of final cut pro for the editing of the footage we had shot on the day. And finally, after effects to change the look of the video once we had edited it.

Molly: We used final cut pro, firstly, to select all the shots we wanted and bin the ones that we were not going to use, then lip sync the video to the audio track, this was all initially done on the timeline by using markets for specific parts of the song, on both the footages audio with the playback and the main audio track to lip sync the footage before editing.

Archie: We also used After FX to put the kaleidoscope effect on the clips because the whole video was shot on a green screen.

Giorgio: Due to the fact that we had constructed an animatic and storyboard beforehand, we had a fairly strong idea of how we wanted the video to run as a whole. This meant that at the point where we started editing the footage on final cut pro, the process ran very smoothly.

Shane: We were using digital technology meaning that we could go back and re edit decisions we had already made, meaning that we could get a stronger flow to the narrative