pre-production task 4

The first thing we did before we shot our music video is create a storyboard to show a clear idea of what we were planning to do for our shoot day. We filmed this storyboard by putting it up again the wall and filming each scene in 10 seconds for each one. We filmed this with an NX5 camera and then put this onto the editing software 'Final Cut'. We then synced our storyboard to go with the music and put it onto our blog to show the steps of progress towards our final product. This helped us decide what to keep and what not to keep. This is because a storyboard is basically a draft of our actual music video and it shows what would fit and what would not fit. So all these media technologies really helped us through realising our mistakes early so we would not make them on the day of the shoot. These technologies we used was the camera NX5, Final cut pro editing software, and the internet, Blogger. This storyboard was a key part of our project. This is because if it was not there, our music video would not be as successful as it is, this is because we would not have noticed the mistakes early on and do those mistakes on the day.
Heres an example of our storyboard being edited.
  

This website 'blogger' has been very useful for our project to show all our different drafts leading up to our final product. It has allowed us to put any ideas we had on mind to put onto this website to show our progress through the project. It has been like a diary of our project to make the whole project more organised and it has also helped us learn more about online media technology. For example, you can post something from another website onto 'Blogger'. For example, Youtube. We did this for our storyboard, are actual music video and for our directors comentry. We also used other media technology other than the internet. We used the mobile phone to take pictures of things we drew as drafts and uploaded it from the Iphone onto our Blogs. This technique was very quick which allowed us to get on with other things sooner. For an example of when we used this technique was when we were coming up with ideas of what we wanted our poster to look like,we drew out the image and took the picture on our Iphone and uploaded it onto our blogs.

Here is the image we uploaded from our iphones:

Here is how it turned out in the real image to show you the progression:

For this we had a more professional photography cameras where we got a photography student to take these images. We used photoshop to contrast this image and turn the colour into black and white. We also got the Best seller sticker from Google and cropped it onto the image on photoshop. Another vital online media technology we used for our project is the internet. Without this, our project would not be as it is today. Google was a massive part of our project to get images from to give examples of what we wanted our band to look like what we wanted our whole poster to like. We used Youtube to actually download our final music video and it also helped a lot with audience feedback. Another internet service we used was social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Myspace to get a wide range of audience feedback of our music video.