The document discusses the research, planning, and production of a music video. It describes using YouTube to research music videos by other artists and find inspiration. The creator emailed Sony Music for permission to use a song in the video. Adobe Premiere Pro was used for editing the video. Ipiccy and Wix were used to create posters and a website for the project. Facebook and WhatsApp helped the team communicate and stay organized.

1. Research, planning and
constructing our music video

2.  YouTube was a big part of my research and
was used a number of times. For example the
idea of using projections came from Ariana
Grande’s music video ‘The way. Ariana’s
video was found on her Vevo music channel
on YouTube. YouTube is extremely useful for
research as it has a vast number of songs and
music videos that are available to anyone for
free. It was also used to upload our own
videos.

3. My and teammate used Hotmail.com to email
Steve Ashford at Sony music as he is
responsible for giving us the permission to use
the song. Steve told us that it must be for
educational purposes only. Originally we had a
lot of problems with getting through to Sony
when we were told to speak to a women named
Elizabeth Peers. But after weeks of emailing and
calling she never replied. We only got a
response when we asked to speak to the
manager – Steve.

4. Adobe Premiere Pro is the software that we used
to edit our video. This was also used for our
thriller last year but this year I believed I
improved in editing techniques, for example
overlay two different clips. I’m used to working
with the editing sites I have at home so using
this software was a challenge for me.

5. Ipiccy is an online free editing site that I
used to create my synaesthesia post and
the posters. Unlike Photoshop, Ipiccy is an
easy and quick way to create simple
things like interesting posts on the blog.

6. Vimeo was used to post our
blooper video as we didn’t want
to only use YouTube. After using
it I found I prefer YouTube as it
is easier to find what you are
looking for.

7. To create the website we used Wix which allows
you to create websites for free. It took me a
while to understand how to use it. Even though
it has an instruction video you still have to work
a lot out for your self.

9. Facebook is a great way to keep in contact
and we created a group to post videos and
links that were relevant to our project.
Both me and Shoshie have smart phones
so we both have a Facebook app on our
phone. This meant that we could check
our notifications where ever we were.

10. WhatsApp is another way to
communicate on our mobile phones
which gave us a range of ways to
contact each other. This meant that if
one way failed we weren’t reliant on
it.