Evaluation Question 4 - How Did You Use Media Technologies in the Construction, Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages?

Planning For Last Filming Day

I am picking up my cast member on Friday at around 1 o'clock and I am planning to film throughout the afternoon. After looking at this forecast I know that I will be able to film at my outside locations as the weather is forecast to be warmer and not raining. 

 

 

These are some text messages which show the commmunication between myself and my cast member. I asked my actor before we filmed to familiarise herself with the song so to save time on the day.

Music Video Draft 3

Since my second draft I have significantly improved my video. Although there are still a few gaps I know what I am filming for those and I have a date arranged with my cast member to film these shots. I think from this draft the narrative of the video is a lot clearer.

My Ancillary Texts In-Situ

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here I have used photoshop to place my products in-situ. By doing this I have been able to see how my prodcuts would look in the real media world and with other existing products. I think I have been able to create a professional looking product that fits in with my chosen genre and does not look out of place with real media texts.

Final Ancillary Texts

 

This is my final digipak design, overall I am really happy with how it turned out. I have followed codes and conventions of existing products in the same genre to create a realistic looking product. I made sure to create continuity in my products by having a running theme throughout. As roses are a key part of my music video I wanted to carry on this theme in all of my promotional features. I found that the hardest thing to do was fitting the CD to the size of the digipak and changing the layers.

 

 





 

 

 

* The album promotion poster is actually grey but for some reason on blogger it looks brown. It is not.

My Ancillary Text Progression

 

Filming Diary - Day 5 - 6th March

Myself and my cast member had arranged to film on Friday afternoon again as we found previously that this is the best time for both of us to film. Also after checking the weather forecasts, I found that this day would be the warmest and sunniest during the week! Today I finally got to go to my last location to film, when I had been previously it was being used and therefore I couldn't film. So we decided to go at a different time than when we had been previously to avoid running into the same problems. On the way to the location, we stopped at a supermarket so I could get some fresh roses to film with as these were an important part of the narrative. I also did some more filming at my house as when I was going through my original shots from this location I wasn't really happy with them.