PLANNINGIN THE PLANNING STAGE OF CREATING MY MUSIC VIDEO I USED A VARIATION OF PROGRAMMES

RESEARCH & PLANNING RESEARCH INCLUDED MORE PROGRAMMES, INCLUDING YOUTUBE, BLOGGER, SLIDESHARE AND PREZI FROM

THE SLIDE BEFORE

BLOGGER

- AS WE HAD TO PRESENT OUR COURSEWORK ONLINE OUR CLASS DECIDED TO USE THE WEBSITE BLOGGER. WE USED

WORDPRESS FOR LAST YEAR’S COURSEWORK BUT FEEL THAT BLOGGER IS MORE EFFICIENT AND EASIER TO NAVIGATE AROUND.

- I LIKED USING THE WEBSITE AS IT HAD AN APP FOR MY PHONE WHICH I DOWNLOADED, I WAS ABLE TO UPLOAD PHOTOS I’D

TAKEN ON MY PHONE STRAIGHT ONTO MY BLOG WHICH WAS EASIER THAN EMAILING THEM TO MYSELF, SAVING THEM TO

MY COMPUTER AND THEN UPLOADING THEM ONTO MY BLOG.

- I USED BLOGGER LIKE A DIARY WHERE I POSTED MY UPDATES OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN TERMS OF MY MUSIC VIDEO

AND ANCILLARY TASKS.

- THIS WEBSITE ABLED ME TO DRAFT POSTS SO IF I HAD AN IDEA I WANTED TO KEEP I COULD KEEP IT FOR A LATER DATE AND

LOOK BACK TO IT WHICH I FOUND REALLY HELPFUL AS I HAD QUITE A FEW IDEAS WHEN I WAS PLANNING MY MUSIC VIDEO.

RESEARCH & PLANNING

- WHEN I RESEARCHED MUSIC VIDEOS IN THE SAME GENRE I USED THE WEBSITE YOUTUBE WHICH HELPED

ME FIND THE PERFECT VIDEO TO USE AS PART OF MY RESEARCH. I CHOSE ICONA POP’S I LOVE IT AS IT

WAS IN THE ‘POP’ SECTION ON THE LEFT SIDEBAR OF THE HOMEPAGE OF THE WEBSITE. I FOUND YOUTUBE

EASY TO NAVIGATE WHICH HELPED ME MAKE HARD DECISIONS.

- - GOOGLE WAS THE SEARCH ENGINE THAT I USED TO CARRY OUT MY RESEARCH. FROM GOOGLE I FOUND

THE WEBSITE PREZI, I WAS ABLE TO FIND THE LYRICS TO MILEY CYRUS’ WRECKING BALL AND I FOUND

OUT THE LAYOUT AND KEY FEATURES OF A DIGIPAK.

RESEARCH & PLANNING- FACEBOOK

• I USED THE SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITE FACEBOOK TO ADVERTISE MY AUDIENCE FEEDBACK SURVEY.

• BY POSTING THE LINK ONTO MY FACEBOOK, ALL OF MY FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO

FILL OUT THE SURVEY. MY FACEBOOK FRIENDS RANGE FROM THE AGES 15-80 SO I HAD A VERY WIDE

RANGE OF AUDIENCE TO GAIN FEEDBACK FROM.

• I FEEL THAT BY USING SOCIAL NETWORKING I WAS ABLE TO GAIN MORE FEEDBACK OVER A WIDER RANGE

OF PEOPLE TO CREATE A LESS BIAS OPINIONS THROUGHOUT THE SURVEY BECAUSE THERE WAS A WIDER

RANGE OF MUSIC GENRES AND DIFFERENT PREFERENCES.

RESEARCH & PLANNING- MICROSOFT OFFICE

- OUT OF THE MICROSOFT OFFICE COLLECTION I USED TWO OF THE SOFTWARES; MICROSOFT OFFICE AND

MICROSOFT EXCEL.

- I USED EXCEL TO CREATE CHARTS FROM THE INFORMATION I GOT FROM THE PRESENTATION I DID TO MY

MEDIA TEACHER’S YOUNGER CLASS ABOUT MILEY CYRUS’ WRECKING BALL MUSIC VIDEO.

- I CREATED POWERPOINTS (SUCH AS THIS ONE) TO SHARE AND PRESENT MY INFORMATION ON THE

WEBSITE SLIDESHARE.

RESEARCH & PLANNING- MOBILE PHONE

- WHILST I WAS CREATING THE STORYBOARD I USED MY PHONE TO FILM AND PHOTOGRAPH ANGLES I

WANTED TO USE IN THE ACTUAL MUSIC VIDEO. I FOUND MY PHONE VERY HANDY AND HELPFUL AS IT’S

SMALL ENOUGH TO FIT IN MY POCKET AND IT HAS A GOOD BATTERY LIFE.

- I ALSO USED MY PHONE TO SNAP A PICTURE WHENEVER I NEEDED TO, FOR EXAMPLE WHEN I WENT TO

VIEW THE STAGE LOCATION I DIDN’T THINK ABOUT TAKING PHOTOS FOR MY BLOG UNTIL I GOT THERE SO

I’M GLAD I HAD MY PHONE HANDY.

- MY MOBILE PHONE IS A SAMSUNG GALAXY S4

RESEARCH & PLANNING- EMAILS

- EMAILS WERE ESSENTIAL THROUGHOUT THE PLANNING OF MY MUSIC VIDEO.

- I CREATED AN EMAIL ADDRESS ESPECIALLY FOR MY MUSIC VIDEO (ALSO BECAUSE I DIDN’T WANT TO

SHARE MY PERSONAL ONE ON A POSTER) AND PUT IT ON A POSTER WHICH HAD INFORMATION ABOUT

AUDITIONS FOR THE PARTS IN THE MUSIC VIDEOS. ALTHOUGH NO ONE APPLIED I STILL THINK IT WAS A

GOOD IDEA.

- WHEN I DID FIND THE GIRLS WHO ARE FEATURED IN MY MUSIC VIDEO I CONTACTED THEM THROUGH MY

PERSONAL EMAIL. THROUGH EMAIL WE ORGANISED TIMES AND PLACES TO MEET TO TALK ABOUT

COSTUMES AND MAKE UP ETC.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING- PAINT

• I USED THE PROGRAMME PAINT TO CREATE MY DIGIPAK AND CD DESIGN.

• HAVING A TOUCH SCREEN LAPTOP I WAS ABLE TO PLAY AROUND WITH THE BRUSH STROKES AND MAKE

THEM A LOT MORE REALISTIC THAN I COULD WITH A MOUSE.

• I WAS VERY COMFORTABLE USING PAINT AS I KNOW HOW EVERYTHING WORKS SO I WANTED TO CREATE

A COMPLEX PRODUCT ON A SIMPLE PROGRAMME RATHER THEN CONFUSING MYSELF AND CREATING A

COMPLEX PRODUCT ON A PRODUCT PROGRAMME.

CONSTRUCTION- FILMING

• WHEN IT FINALLY CAME TO FILMING MY MUSIC VIDEO, I USED A SONY CAMERA AND MY PHONE (WHEN

THE BATTERY OF THE SONY CAMERA RAN OUT). THE CAMERA WAS GOOD QUALITY AND EASY TO NAVIGATE

AROUND WITH A TOUCHSCREEN SURFACE ON THE FLIP OUT VIEWING SCREEN.

• ALONGSIDE THE CAMERA I USED A TRIPOD WHICH GAVE ME A STEADY HAND WITH THE CAMERA, MOVING

THE CAMERA WHEN I NEEDED TO PAN RIGHT TO LEFT.

CONSTRUCTION- EDITING• I WAS REALLY EXCITED TO EDIT MY MUSIC VIDEO AND I AM HAPPY WITH THE MUSIC VIDEO I HAVE CREATED AS I FEEL I HAVE

PUT A LOT OF HARD WORK INTO IT.

• FINDING THE RIGHT EDITING SOFTWARE PROVED TO BE A CHALLENGE, I USED THE PIXLR EDITOR WHICH IS AN APP ON

GOOGLE DRIVE (WHERE I STORED ALL MY WORK AND NOTES). THE APP HAD POSITIVE REVIEWS FOR EDITING VIDEOS

ALTHOUGH I FOUND IT HARD TO GET ALONG WITH AND UNDERSTAND. THE SECOND EDITING SOFTWARE I TRIED WAS ALSO

AN APP FROM GOOGLE DRIVE- WE VIDEO. THIS APP HAD MIXED REVIEWS BUT IT WAS WORTH A TRY, I DIDN’T USE THIS

EDITING SOFTWARE DUE TO THE FACT THAT I WAS UNABLE TO MUTE THE BACKGROUND NOISE THAT WAS IN THE VIDEOS

WHEN I SHOT THEM SO THE BACKGROUND NOISE WOULD HAVE BEEN ALONGSIDE ‘WRECKING BALL,’ I THEN TURNED TO

WINDOW MOVIE MAKER WHICH ALTHOUGH IS A SIMPLE, WELL-KNOWN AND EASY TO USE PROGRAMME IT DIDN’T WANT TO

PLAY ROUGHLY HALF OF THE VIDEOS I UPLOADED TO IT, THIS PREVENTED ME FROM USING IT. FINALLY I DECIDED TO USE SERIF

MOVIEPLUS AS I DID LAST YEAR, I WAS HESITANT TO USE THE PROGRAMME DUE TO PROBLEMS WITH IT FROM MY AS WORK

BUT ALL IN ALL I DIDN’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH EDITING MY MUSIC VIDEO WHEN IT CAME DOWN TO THE TINY DETAILS.

CONCLUSION

TO CONCLUDE, I USED A LARGE VARIATION OF TECHNOLOGY FOR MY RESEARCH AND PLANNING AND FOR THE

CONSTRUCTION OF MY MAIN PRODUCT AND MY ANCILLARY TASKS. TECHNOLOGY PLAYED AN INCREDIBLY

LARGE PART IN PLANNING, NOTING DOWN AND CREATING MY COURSEWORK. MEDIA STUDIES WOULD BE

NOTHING WITHOUT THE INVENTION OF IT.