Aknowledgements

I would like to thank Zara Pearce, Gerogia Lateo and Alice Fortune for giving up their spare time to star in our music video. Especially on them really cold days wearing inappropriate clothing for cold weather.

I would also like to thank Tim Pearce, Zara's Dad, who gave us permission to film in his work place, especially when everyone in the office was still trying to work.

Finally, i would like to thank, Georgia and her mum for allowing us to film in her house in the night.

Roles within the group

Below is a chart with the roles that each of us in the group took lead of

Evaulation: Question 4

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

We used many different media technologies throughout the whole of our project. Before we had even started project we used the Photoshop to make our main header for our blog. We had already used this program in year 12 when we created our music magazines, however, it was just the matter of getting used to it again. Never the less, this didn't take me long as i soon managed to grasp the idea of what tools do what.

Here is a powerpoint presentation to explain the media technologies used in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages in my project

Question 4

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Creating of the Website

For one of the ancillary tasks we had to create a webpage to promote our music artist. I took the lead role of creating this site. I did this by using the Program Dreamweaver where i had to create a site and than inset in a table as shown below

By using a table, you are able to insert things on to the page with ease. We did this by clicking on the ‘Inset’ option on the tool bar across the top of the page and down to the table options.

I also inserted images such as the navigational links, photos and other images of headings onto the page. I did this by clicking on the ‘Inset’ option on the tool bar across the top of the page and down to the image options. The navigation links were also rollover images using two different images so that it looks that the link changes from the colour white to blue when the cursor hovers over it.

We wanted to create a user login on our webpage. We also wanted to create a form for competition where the user has to fill in their personal details and answer the competition question. We done this by clicking on the ‘Inset’ option on the tool bar across the top of the page and down to the form options

We included a multimedia feature in our website which was our music video. However, we wanted to insert our music video on a different page on our website. We done this by clicking on the ‘Inset’ option on the tool bar across the top of the page and down to the ‘Media’ options and down to ‘Plugin’.

Creating the Music Video

In our to create our music video we have to firstly import all of our footage from the video camera into the Program Final Cut. We then imported our choice of song into the same program and dragged it down to the timeline. All of the shots was then listed in a folder on the program where you can then re-watch the clips and start editing.

Here are a few explanations of what we did and what sort of effects we used to edit the video

This image is showing how i used different effects and changed the speed of clips. We wanted to make the video seem dream-like so we used quite a few crossdisolves so make everything flow together. To add to this dream-like effect and to make it seem more dramatic, we also slowed down the speed of some clips.

This image shows how i changed the colours of a certain clip. We also wanted to change the colour of a clip of the main fantasy girl to black and white for when the main male character starts thinking about her. We done this by fiddling around with the colours and saturation options.

Our Webpage

Below is the link to our Final Website:

Our Jakatta Website!

Here are screen shots of the two pages in our website promoting our music artist Jakatta

Homepage

Music Video Page

The images below are the same screen shot but with annotations explaining what certain features are and why we have chosen to include them within our website. Click to enlarge the images.

Home page

Video Page

Evaluation: Question 3

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Audience feedback is very important for the final completion of the music video and the ancillary tasks as it allows you to identify what are the good and bad factors of you product and what needs to be improved and more often that not, certain parts of your audience feedback will have suggestions in how to do so.

Video Feedback

TEACHER FEEDBACK

We first required feedback when it came to the beginning of the task with our idea for our music with we gained off our media teacher. We explained to her our idea and she immediately liked the idea and thought that it would work with our song choice, however, she thought that something was missing. Even though she liked the idea of the main male character having a day dream of him following this fantasy girl as she tries to tease and lure him to follow her along with two other girls, she felt that for the length of the song, we would not have enough of a storyline/shots to keep the viewers interesting and to actually make a good music video. She then suggested that the main male character could bump into other people that are in the woods but are dressed up in weird yet still fantasy-like clothing doing average things such as sitting having a conversation but he will only be able to see them whereas they won't be able to see him. She suggested that maybe a couple of these types of scenes included in the video will mean that we would have more shots to make a full length of the music video with and it will also make the video more weird/strange so that the viewers remain interested.

We all liked this idea that our teacher had suggested and decided to included on our storyboard to explain the story of the music video and what type of shots are going to be included.

Whilst we were filming we often gained feedback off the other female actors included in the video, suggesting different shots and ideas that we could include in our video. This was a benefit for us as it gave us a point of view from other people perspectives.

The next bit of audience feedback that we received was after we had finished editing our video to conclude with our final cut. We required some audience feedback so it could be improved, firstly from our teacher. We found that the criticism from our teacher was much greater than anyone else but that is what we expected as she is our teacher and she will be completely honest as she wants us to get the best grades possible. I also thought this to be a beneficial for us as she has the most knowledge out of all of us as she has been a media teacher for a long time and we can therefore know what isn't liked so that it can be changed to made better. Her main criticism was that some of the shots weren't the best and were to long as needed to be cut down with effects so that it would flow into each other. Adding to this, she felt that the video needed to have more effects in it to make it seem more dream like such as adding in cross dissolves. She also felt that we did too many over the shoulder shots o that we get the back of peoples head a lot which she really didn't like which meant that we had to go back and re-film certain shots again so that we have more of a wider range of shots, especially ones where we can see the main character's face. She also wanted us to re-film part of Dan, playing the role of the main male character, as he repeatedly touched the back of his head and kept 'huffing' which she said was very noticeable but only became visible to us when she pointed it out. This shows how important audience feedback is as you need to gain someone else's opinion apart from yourselves as they may notice and comment on things that you may not have even noticed.

Unfortunately, we were not able to re-film any footage for our video as the main actress, Georgia, was continuously busy and wasn't able to take part in our media anymore. Instead, we had to work with the footage that we already had in order to improve our music video.

Apart from pointing out the bad points of our video, she did pointed out a few good points about our video. She felt that the storyline was good and went well with the song choice. had a relationship with the music in a sense that the shots and parts of the storyline went with certain parts of the music, especially with the middle of the video where goes quite and dream-like and there's shots of the two other fantasy-like girls.

CLASS MEMBER FEEDBACK

We also asked a few of our fellow class mates to watch our music video then write down their comments on a piece of paper for our feedback. They were less critical than our teacher but their comments were still important to us to help try and improve our video and to establish what are the good factors about the video. It was also a benefit that the feedback that we was receiving from our class mates was also from a similar age of our target audience which meant that this would be a reliable source to follow for feedback. Our classmates also picked up on the fact that some of the editing needed working on so this just confirmed to us something we could work on for the final cut. Below are the comments from our classmates.

Digipack Feedback

Below is an image of our first draft of our digipak

TEACHER FEEDBACK

CLASS MEMBER FEEDBACK

After taking the feedback from both teacher and class members into consideration, we changed the digipak and this is what the final draft looks like.

Website feedback

The feedback for the website worked slightly differently compared to the other feedback given for the other tasks. The feedback was given after the first draft of the task at hand, where as, with the website the feedback was given throughout. Here are the different types of feedback and the type of things that they said along the making of the website.

TEACHER FEEDBACK

• likes the roll over images for the main navigational links on the page - however doesn't like them being pink, would prefer them to be blue
• doesn't like the pink used for some of the font - too many colours on the page, makes it look prodominately for girls
• likes the idea of a user form
• like the rollover image of the album cover
• doesn't like the picture used for Gerogia as it isn't cut out properly

CLASS MATE FEEDBACK

• likes the header for the homepage
• likes the picture of the main male character in the top left corner of the page
• likes the idea of the user form
• doesn't like the main navigational links being pink

After receiving all of the different feedback comments whilst making the website, we quickly changed the faults and this is what was produced.

Homepage
Video Page