Spotify

This year I relied heavily on Spotify to help find our song choice. Spotify has a genre and moods section where it provides songs from a chosen genre. This helped us find our song while looking at other potential songs.

Editing softwares

Throughout AS I used many different editing softwares.

iMovie was used predominantly when editing the music video as this is the software downloaded onto the computer. Then at home I trimmed the GoPro shots using the GoPro CineForm Studio, and then uploaded them to iMovie at school after.

For the ancillary tasks I used Powerpoint, Photoshop and the Signature tool on the Trackpad. These three combined helped me create a professional digipack and advert.

Receipt

When receiving audience feedback, someone pointed out that the receipt show shows that we only spent 30p, when previously we put many items in the basket. However we decided to leave this as the shot is only 2.1 seconds and you don't see these items later on in the music video, so how much they spent doesn't affect the storyline at all.

Evaluation Questions

1. In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?
3. What have you learned from your audience feedback?
4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Editing to the beat

I wanted some more editing to the beat in the music video, so I placed the establishing shots at the beginning of the music video where the song has four clear beats. Then made each shot 0.5 seconds to be in time with the music. These are the shots I chose.

Establishing Shots

We wanted some establishing shots to set the scene as when we watched it back we thought the music video started very abruptly. We filmed some potential shots at the park and inside and outside of the school.

Cameras

I used three different cameras throughout A2.

First I used a Samsung Phone tor record the prelim, then for the music video I sed a Nikon DSLR and a GoPro. The Nikon was used for the majority of the music video and the GoPro was used for the bike shots and receipt shot.