Bye Bye Blogger

The process of completing our music videos to the evaluation has been an enjoyable and stressful journey, but its sadly over. Working with my group was enjoyable, and I'm proud to have worked with such creative people. Due to my absence, I don't think my ancillary and evaluation are as good as they could be, but I understand why and I'm grateful to have gained the knowledge I have so far. Learning about music videos has been really informative and fun, and I'd like to thank my teachers for making every stage of this work enjoyable, as boring as some of it should be. Bye Bye Blogger.

Evaluation: Question 2

Evaluation: Question 3

Evaluation: Question 4

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Evaluation: Question 1

[EVALUATION] Q2

Synergy play a big part in for our project, by having synergy it meant that we was able to create a visual link between the music video, digipack and advertisement. By doing this it allows the target audience to be able to recognize Yasmin especially since she is a new and upcoming artist. 

SIGNING OFF

I am officially done!

Evaluation Q4.

Feedback on Music Video & Digipak

Closing Off

Final Blog

Farewell blogger. Nahida Out. 

Final Progress Review

Final Progress Review

Compared to A2 I have definitely branched out in terms of ICT and challenged myself to present my work in different ways. There's also much more detail. Last Year, when research and planning I was really laid back and didn't blog as much and when I did I lacked the use of different ICT. This year I discovered new ICT to present my work such as Lumo, Thinglink, Canva and Speakerdeck. It has definitely impacted my posts in a positive way and made it much more appealing to read and go through. 

I think my blogs effectively show all aspects of research, planning and productions and all the posts are clearly labelled as to what stage they fit. I tried to blog as much as I could which resulted in a few extra posts about 7+ roughly. 

Throughout this year I have definitely not kept up to date with blogging, they way I could have. I fell behind a few times, but eventually did catch up, so I don't think I have any gaps in my blog posts. 

If I was given another chance at A2 Media, the change I would make is to be more organised and keep up to date with my blogs no matter what. And also show much more interest in our music video. 

Blogging this time around was very tedious and there was a lot more too it which could explain why I fell behind a few times. But I got there in the end, and I am proud of the work I have produced. I guess some aspects could've been a bit better such as the details in my blog, but overall I think it was to a fairly decent standard. and I can officially say blogging is something I will not miss. However, the whole editing and filming the production of a project I may miss a little and try pick a few video project here and there. 

This is it. I'm finally finished after months of hardwork.

[EVALUATION] - Question 3

EVALUATION QUESTION 3 : How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

[EVALUATION] Q3

[EVALUATION] Q1

[EVALUATION] - Question 4

EVALUATION QUESTION 4: What have your learned from your audience feedback?

[EVALUATION] - Question 2

Evaluation Question 2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Evaluation Q3.

When researching and planning for the creation of our project there was a number of technologies used for the different stages:

• Blogger 

During the research stage and planning stage blogger played a big part in the putting together of our project. The use of different apps such as prezi and youtube as well as using pictures and music videos of other artist's/students work, plus our own work and analysis of other people's work is all displayed on blogger as this is the foundation of the group's plan.

• Video cameras/Memory cards

The cameras that was used to shoot the video for 'High For This' are state of the art and provided very good footage for the group to work with, they were also not that difficult to use and quick and easy to to learn how to use. The fact that we had two memory cards helped a lot as we experienced some difficulty whilst out on one of our filming sessions one of the memory cards stopped working, lucky enough we had another one so it did not create a problem and we was able to continue filming.

• Twitter/Instagram 

A twitter and instagram account was created for our group in order to keep our teachers up to date with what was going on within our group and what kind of progress we was making with our filming sessions. Pictures were taken of the different locations that we used to film for the video as well updates that were made on twitter so everyone was aware of our whereabouts, what stages we were at, where we was heading next and what else needed to be done.

• Photoshop

In order to construct my ancillary products photoshop was needed to create the digipak and advertisement for the digipak.

•  Final Cut Pro 

The editing for the music video was done on the programme Final Cut Pro. From before the filming began we planned on  having some parts of the video in black and white and other parts of the video to have a allow motion effect to give reinforce the euphoria vibe.
The black and white visual was done using the colour picker effect so that everything within the shot appeared in black and white apart from the feature we wanted to stand out with the colour which was the majority of the shots that consisted of the artist (Yasmin Ally) holding the smoke bombs, these shots also included the slow motion effect to slow down the speed of the smoke coming out the tube.

Evaluation Q2.

Evaluation Q1.