3. RESEARCH
• To research for music videos in my genre, I got most of my help from the internet and websites
such as YouTube. I did this on the iMac. Google was another useful search engine that I used
while undergoing my research, I used google to search for photos of artists from my genre,
information about the indie rock genre, images of digipaks to help decide what we wanted our
digipak to look like and as well as when researching the artists website.
• My phone internet was also available for research. I used the phone internet when we weren't
near a computer with internet access and we if we needed to find out quick information to help
our media project. E.g the right lyric of our song or to watch a quick clip on YouTube.
• Music Channels were also available for research, different music videos to different genres of
music and different shot types and locations were used. We got ideas from all of the existing
music videos and we analysed what we liked about them and what we hated about them and
used the ideas in our music video
4. WIX- RESEARCH & PLANNING
• Wix is another blogging site that allows you to blog and create sites on the web.
• We used Wix a lot in our project to write about our work as we went along with it. Wix was
good as it was easy to use to keep track of our progress while working. We blogged every
step that we went along with, from introduction to our project to the evaluation of our
project.
• Wix was useful as we could embed pictures and videos to show where we were getting our
ideas and inspiration from
• We could also embed all of our planning documents – such as our target audience
questionnaire and shooting schedule
• I used wix like a diary, constantly updating it with ideas and progress, after filming shoots
and editing days
5. BLUETOOTH, MOBILE PHONE, LAPTOP, IPAD AND IMAC-
RESEARCH & PLANNING.
• My phone helped me during the planning stage as it was great for organisation and
meeting up with my partner and making plans on when was best to film.
• During the filming stage, we took lots of pictures on our phone and we sent it to our
iMacs with the use of the Bluetooth application. It was very useful and reliable.
• I also used my laptop to do lots of research at home on the internet when I wasn’t in
school. I was able to go on YouTube to listen and watch music videos from my genre,
Google to research anything I needed to know.
6. CONSTRUCTION
In the construction stage, the iMac was used to operate the various software.
Panasonic camera (digital camera)- this is the camera that we used to film our
music video. Along with this camera we used a tripod to hold our camera still and
to get perfect footage. After filming, we uploaded our footage unto the iMac via a
memory stick that can be taken our from the camera and uploaded it to final cut
express, here we chose the footage we wanted to include in the video, included it
in our timeline, edited the video, added video transitions, and most importantly
matched the filming to the song so that Ashley’s miming matched to the song
accurately.
We also used Adobe Photoshop to make a poster for our digipak poster and our
cd cover – outsides and insides.
We also used the still camera a lot to take pictures of locations that we filmed in
and we uploaded them on our blog and explained why we thought the place we
filmed in was necessary.
