A2 Advanced Portfolio- Completed Music Video

After a long time of editing (about 4-5 hours!) I have finally finished my music video! I firstly used iMovie as since last year it has become much more advanced with effective features which I was able to use simply, however after I had done 3 edits on iMovie, I decided that I needed a much  more advanced software: Final Cut X. This enabled me to add on lots of different effects, such as mirrors, flashes and layered images. I am thrilled with my final music video, I hope you enjoy it too...

Evaluation Question 1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Evaluation Q4-How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Digipak Panels (Large Images)

Front Cover

 Inside Image 1

 Inside Image 2

 Inside Image 3

 CD background image

Back Cover With Spines

Digipak Completed!

A Star To Be...?

Whilst doing some pick-up shots for my music video (yes thats me standing on the table), my dog decided he wanted to feature...

Too cute not to post! ;)

You can also see my Green Screen Set up here. I had 3 lights- 2 side lights and one main light. I found this produced the most effective green screening.

Digipak Front and Back Covers

I created these images firstly, by using iMovie where I changed the green screen background to white. Then I uploaded the image to Lunapic.com in order to make the white background transparent. Then I uploaded this image to a white background on PicMonkey in order to create the covers. 

Explain How Your Skills in the Creative use of Digital Technology Developed Over Time

Explain how your skills in the creative use of Digital Technology developed over time

What I Learnt From The Lipsyncing Task

Digital Technology:
Green Screening - Lighting, distance from camera, that dark colours work best 

Post Production (Cross-over with Digital Technolgy):
Green screen on green screen, layering, black and white, cropping, picture in picture, combining iMovie projects into one, importing music and video,

Creativity:
Props (Ice cubes, glass, beard, hats, changes of clothes- improvised), remaking of the old and making of the new- using an old video and copying it in order to see how it was made.

Research and Planning:
Video choice, dancing in different genres, storyboard and matching shots - very detailed shot by shot storyboard with timings. Constantly returning to plan to ensure correct shots.

Using conventions from real media texts:
Style of clothes/dance for rap/RnB genre. Hair/Make up, Facial expressions, Represent lyrics with dance ("park it like it hot"- the dance move). Camera and framing shots- over 20 shots in 30s, lots of cross cutting, 

Lip Sync Task!

Here is our Lip Sync Preliminary Task:

Drop It Like It's Hot

Snoop Dogg ft Pharell

Digital Technology

Everything to do with computers and electronic devices- whether that be cameras, TVs, The Internet etc