Music in the Online age Prezi

This is my music in the online age Prezi that I have just finished.Since I used Prezi last, it has changed it's layout to create a better simpler system. I think it works well, but it's still time consuming getting the path correct. I have to say I do like the new layout and improvements Prezi has made, and the presentations do look good. I think if there was to be one improvement it would be including more design templates.

Music in the online age on Prezi

Coursework development over the year and important links.

This year for our media coursework, we chose to create an indie music video. The song chosen was ‘Blue Skies’ by the band ‘Noah + the Whale’. One member of our group and I, knew quite a lot about the indie genre because we liked this type of music. We had created a mind map of different bands, such as Mumford and Sons, but in the end we voted on Noah and the Whale because we felt the song could be explored in terms of themes more. In addition we also created an advertisement campaign, which consisted of a magazine album promotion page, along with the albums digipak. We used Apple Mac’s for our editing and Final Cut pro in particular. There has been a lot of independent research and planning before the filming actually started; some of use also created a preliminary music video, which can be found here, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMK5JhwDF-8&feature=plcp.  

My research and planning can be found here, http://musicvideoalevel.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Research%20%2B%20Planning

Also my Evaluation work can be found here- http://musicvideoalevel.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Evaluation. I also have a PowerPoint on Scribd; http://www.scribd.com/doc/93047384/Media-Evaluation.

If you would like to take a look at our YouTube channel, where we have uploaded our videos, this is the link. http://www.youtube.com/user/RHMGubloid?feature=mhee .

Final Cut Pro and Editing anaylsis- Question 4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

These are the screen shots that Radhika and I took from the Apple Mac's. It shows our project that we were creating, with us discussing the editing techniques we used, accompanied with the shots of the edited visuals that we were talking about. However this video didn't render all together for some reason, so we're going to upload the video of us talking, along with some stills, as examples. It's unfortunate that this didn't work, because it would have been a good video altogether.

The screen shots show the format of final cut Pro, and the software that we used.

The video below is an in depth analysis of how we used editing In our video and which sections the effects were used on. 

I like making videos like this, because lots of people prefer to watch videos rather than read long articles on how we did it. Visual images, in my opinion are far better than written work. Also seen as this is a media blog, I think it's more creative to make videos!

Be warned this video is loud! I underestimated and forgot how clearly the Mac's picked up our voices.

Preliminary Evaluation

Initially our group decided to answer the four evaluation questions in pairs. So we split up and discussed the questions and what we did to conform to the genre, the feedback we received and how we listened to this. In addition we explored how we used planning and research to help us, as well as the technologies we used throughout our coursework.
After this evaluation, we have done individual analysis aswell.

The first video featuring Radhika, explains how we challenged or conformed to the Indie genre.

Question 3

What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

Radhika and I discussed what we learnt from the audience feedback and how we changed our video, from some of the improvements suggested. The audience feedback was primarily obtained through our showcase evening, because we had such a huge amount of people. The feedback forms were divided equally through the group and then the data was analysed.

Question 4

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

This video features Mark and I. I think I talked a lot though this video, probably because I knew the systems we were using, as Mark didn't actually use Final Cut Pro. Marissa added in some great images of our ancillary task, which flowed well with this video. Initially our group spilt into two's to talk about the 4 evaluation questions, but after some consideration we decided to do the 4 questions together on the Apple Mac's, on Photo booth. Finally one more thing to add - This video was improvised because we wanted to have a general discussion.

Then Marissa discussed how our ancillary texts link with our music video.

Drafting Analysis

This is the draft that Radhika and I discussed in our media lesson. I helped by explaining the order of the filming and editing that we done, from this Radhika devised this drafting analysis. I think it explains in detail the amount of effort we put into our 'Oliver Fox' video piece, as we spent a great deal of time, filming and selecting the best shots and then editing them in the appropriate place. It also shows the improvements we made and why we did these.

Drafting Analysis

Final A2 Media Evaluation

Media Evaluation

Group Evaluation

This is our group evaluation, we had a discussion on the 4 questions, but this was pretty short because we are each creating 6-9 slides on one of these questions. We discussed the feedback we received from our showcase evening, and the main positives and negatives of the music video piece. We briefly touched on the technologies we have used this year, and how they have progressed from last year. We generally talked about what went wrong and right.

Having thought about this group evaluation, we considered how tricky it would be for each of us to only contribute to one question, therefore we have decided to individually do the written/PowerPoint evaluation, but we still had a group discussion in addition to this.