Final Cut

This is the final music video of Lukas Graham's, '7 years'. I am so pleased with how it progressed and improved overtime, and hope people enjoy the story and can understand the meaning behind it.

Ancillary Task- Poster

This is my finished promotion poster for the song and music video of Lukas Graham's '7 years'. I have added the review, the release date, which is the largest of texts at the top because its one of the most important things on the poster. There is also a twitter name to follow and a hashtag for the social media audience to get involved. 

Overall I am very happy with my poster, i like how i have kept it simple, but just wish the image was a little more defined so its easier to see that i have layered 7 of the images together and that it would be easier to see that the car is further away. 

Ancillary Task- Digi-pak

This is my front cover of my album for Lukas Graham, I wanted to keep it simple by using a photograph. The photo is of the old man and boy looking at each other because they are looking at the past and the future as the same person. I kept the sunset theme as i thought the colours were rich and really nice. On my poster I also had a sunset so thought I should keep the theme running, along side the theme of a thin dotted boarder, just to add a frame to the image. I also used the same font and colour, to stand out from the dark shadows and wanted the theme to run throughout. 

My back cover is very similar to the front, i used the same photograph but put a grey box over the top, i was stuck with what to do for the back cover and using another photo wouldn't blend in, so you can just see the edges of the photo. I also used the same font and colour, but this its alittle darker. I added a barcode and the legal information to make it look even more life like, and then there is also s Warner Bro logo because that is the company who own/ publish Lukas Graham's songs. Once again i put a simple border around the outside. 

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

 This is my answer to question 1 of the evaluation, its a prezi, click the link to have a look.


https://prezi.com/66dp4c8tdgpy/in-what-way-does-your-media-product-use-develop-or-challeng/

Question 2-How effective is your combination of your main task and ancillary tasks?

This is my answer to question 2, 'How effective is your combination of your main task and ancillary tasks?'
I decided to create a powerpoint, and uploaded it to Youtube.
https://youtu.be/V-vVqQCwqvo

Question 3- What have you learnt from your audience feedback?

This is a video of me talking over my evaluation question number 3 about the feedback i received from the audience , its an audio over a video of my youtube channel showing the progress i have made over time to make my coursework music video better. 

Question 4: How did you use your media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

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

During the the making of my music video, I used a wide variety of media technologies right from the research of music videos all the way to my evaluation questions. 

First of all the main platform I used was 'Blogger' an internet website where you blog your progress,  I used this a lot for recording and planning my ideas to construct my coursework. It was very helpful because I could show the progress I made and how I developed my work overtime into the final product. Its easily organised in categories and also a simple way track my A2 work. But has a few disadvantages as it is limited in terms of actions you can take so hinders the work you can produce, it also takes a long time to upload videos and you can't put Microsoft Word, Powerpoint or Excel on it, and finding an alternative was a problem sometimes. Overall its a helpful software in tracking and showing the progression of my A2 work.  

Youtube was also a helpful website during the production of my A2 music video, I used it to research music videos for the planning of it. It was also used for tutorials on how to use softwares such as Premier Pro and Photoshop, where I didn't have much knowledge about these since at AS i only used very basic skills. It was a easy website to use, I could screenshot work and upload videos from it onto my blog to show my ideas. I also used it as a platform for people to access my videos,  and receive feedback from them, it was also a way to access them myself to then upload onto Blogger. It has a few disadvantages of being very slow during the upload of my videos but was very helpful to find music videos that could help me to research ideas.
Adobe Premier Pro is an editing software where I used it to put my videos, in particular my music video together. I briefly experimented with it at AS, using the very basic tools to put together a piece of work, but this year the skills I learnt and transferred were a lot more advanced for me enabling for a better outcome of my video. If you compare my AS to A2, you can instantly see a difference in editing and skills, the growth, personally has been big. I previously used the software last year so was briefly familiar with the tools and how it operated in which I could use to my advantage but still had a lot of things to learnt due to the simplicity of the editing from last year. I was able to spend more time working on the actual video rather than how things worked.  But did face problems of certain aspects being very complicated to use and difficult to get the hang of, this made it quite time consuming. But overall was a very professional programme to use with a wide spectrum of tools to use creating a better product.
The camera I used to shoot my video was my own, a Canon EOS 1100D digital SLR camera, it was easy to have my own as I know how it works and could use it when ever I wanted, this was particularly helpful since I had to film on multiple occasions adding to my video. This camera quality wasn't the most professional but I could improve it by editing and once it was uploaded to Youtube. I could manually focus in and out of different things whether they were in the foreground or back, it was also very good at capturing the sunset at different angles giving my music video more emotion. It was also used  to take the photo for my film poster. The quality was really good, especially of the photographs but it was difficult to take the camera everywhere, as it is quite big and bulky.
Adobe Photoshop was used to edit and create my film poster and album cover. I already knew a few of the tools through using it in my art, but used Youtube a lot to support me in learning new skills to make my poster and cd cover better. It made my work look professional and has lots of tools to experiment with, but some of the effects can be difficult to use and get the hang of, which can be time consuming. I didn't use Photoshop at AS but through editing photos in my art lessons i learnt the simple skills but had to learn a lot more this year at A2.
I also used Prezi for one of my evaluation questions and planning towards my final video ideas. Its good because you can customise it and it has different ways to present your work, you can also include photos and videos to link to the information. But can be time consuming if you haven't used it before.
Google was also a large part of my research, construction and planning process as I researched videos and information about the work to add to my process of the creation of my music video. I also used it to research music video posters and album covers to get inspiration for my Ancillary tasks, on the other hand it doesn't also bring up what you wanted or relevant work, so you have to look through them finding what you need.