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Finishing ahead of schedule meant that I was able to test the music video on a range of devices (various school computers, TVs, home computers, and mobile phones) to make sure the brightness was at the right level. This also allowed me to get audience feedback on several drafts and make improvements to the music video on the back of this feedback.

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One problem I had with hardware was that one of the cameras used on the band performance shoot had a noise/grain problem. When reviewing the footage I found that particular one had way more grain than the rest used. However I overcame this in post-production by embracing the noise in the black and white colour grading, and adjusting the brightness/contrast/exposure to reduce it in shot where I didn't want it.

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In AS I had colour graded the shots but not done anything too wild and out there. Therefore I felt that I had a good starting point to experiment more with colour. Creating colour presets for black and white shots, outdoors ones, and the chorus red/blue so that they could quickly applied. This also meant that the colour correction was more fluent and didn't lack continuity. Layering up multiple colour correction effects in premiere meant that I could achieve a look that would be impossible without layering. Being able to cut clip down to be milliseconds long meant that I could create the short fast bursts in time with the drums at the end of the songs

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For the glitch effect I download a glitch layer from the YouTube tutorial I watched on how to create a text glitch effect; the same tutorial that I had used in my AS thriller opening. In AS I had applied the technique footage as well but not with the red/blue/yellow colours. It was because I used it before I could build on this knowledge and be more adventurous with the technique. I also meant that I was a lot quicker at creating the effect for multiple scenes, where in AS it took me a while to create each glitch. In AS i didn't realise that premiere pro and after effects worked in synergy, so I individually exported each section. But now I could quickly import the file in premiere pro, and change it in after effects if it didn't look how I wanted it to.

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For the red/blue/yellow/black and white sequence, I layered up each set of footage for the band members and colour graded them individually. The protagonist was kept in black and white, and shown throughout to put emphasis on these band members fading in and out were in the protagonist mind. Which is also connoted by the protagonist holding their head. To create the fading in and out of the rest of band, I key framed the opacity of the 3 band members.

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Web 2.0, as theorist David Gauntlett called it, meant that I've been able to upload and create media online. This has been helpful in all stages of production as well as in  the evaluation.

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Glitch Effect

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Click here for the full music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_654614&v=qroWFA0tJzA&feature=iv Go behind the scene to see what went into Ryan making his first music video.

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I used this free programme to create the merchandise for the band website and to edit some of the photos for the website and Twitter page. After using this software for a while I found that I preferred to use Photoshop. As Photoshop has a lot more features and is the programme that I am more familiar with.

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Adobe Photoshop was used to create the digipack. Using a template, I added in the edited photos, lyrics and adjusted the composition of the package.

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Adobe After Effects is also another package I had used in A2. I used it to create the red/blue/yellow/black and white sequence.
As well as for the glitches near the end of the music video. After Effects was used because it had features that weren't available in Premiere Pro.

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Adobe Premiere Pro was the main programme I used to the music video and videos in research and planning. Using the software in A2 meant that I had a fair understanding and knew the quickest ways of doing the basics like trimming down footage. Premiere Pro was ideal for the task as it is part of the adobe suite, it meant that projects from Adobe After Effects could be imported and still be edited. Instead of having to be exported. Premiere Pro's colour grading features were key to the editing of my music video as each shot was colour corrected (following the conventions of music videos).  The key framing tool in the software was essential for the changing the colour of shots to be in sync with the s

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Performance shots in this music video were strong and were typical of those found in music video (close-ups of the instruments and the band members)

There was also a narrative element to the video

The first shot had a good composition with the song title layer over the top

One of the down sides was that there was a little bit of camera shake on some of the shots

Colour grading could also have been used to give it more of a conventional look

Using the mark scheme I would have given this music video 32

The use of a black and white colour grading in the reverse shot of the photo being effectively un-burnt was visually interesting and creative

It includes some convention of the genre. For example playing guitar in a countryside location

The video focused on the artist quite a bit, and that is typical of a music video, but it does get repetitive after a while.

The shots are a little limited and do have a few exposure issues

Using the mark scheme I would have given this music video 25

The shots in this music video had interesting compositions and were varied throughout

I particularly liked the silhouette shot, as it was very effective and used well

There were a few focus issues

There wasn't a particular plot to the music video, while it was different and interesting, it was perhaps loosing momentum about half way through

I would have given this music video 30

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Performance shots in this music video were strong and were typical of those found in music video (close-ups of the instruments and the band members) There was also a narrative element to the video The first shot had a good composition with the song title layer over the top One

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To print off: audience feedback questions, the music video plan, and for the mockup of the CD.

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I used this to make digital copies of the storyboard I created for my music video. Uploading them to my blog meant I access them even if I didn't have them with me.
The scanner was also used to scan in audience feedback in pre-production and post-production

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Behind the scenes peek at rehearsals for Tupton Hall School's production of Hairspray. Meet the cast, see some of the costumes, hear the live band! Tickets now on sale for shows on 7, 8 & 9 December 2016.

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Twitter

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Tweets by _xxtrapolate

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Giphy

I used this website to create GIFs of the music video to upload to Twitter and to illustrate what section of the music video I'm talking about in the evaluation.

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Blogger

Used as a hub to upload and regularly update my progress in research, planning, production, post-production and the evaluation. The HTML feature allowed me embed work from external websites, instead of having a hyperlink. Making the blog posts more visually appealing. While blogger allows for customisation of the templates, the formatting of the site sometimes makes the images pixelated on the main feed.

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Canva

I used this website to create the Twitter header and for the practice album covers. I discovered in the research and planning phase that Canva wouldn't be the best application to create a digipack on as it only had basic tools to edit images.

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Padlet

Used in the evaluation to present a variety of media together (videos, GIFs, text, photos and hyperlinks)

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Albumizr

This online photo album maker displays images neatly and I used if I had a large collection of images in research and planning. Also to display the finished digipack

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Slideshare
Used for uploading research and planning, as well as the music video plan so that I could easily access it on any device that is connected to the internet.

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Wix

Used to create the band website for the ancillary homepage task. I choose this site over all the website generator because it was free and had loads of useful features for creating a band website. For example, the online shop.

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Youtube

To get inspiration for my music video I went to Youtube to find already existing professional music videos. Building up an idea of what was coventional in a music video for an indie/alternative song was important to me. I also looked at what the band who I chosen the song from had done in their music videos. I learnt that they featured themselves often in a performance set-up. I also used Youtube to look at previous media students in an exercise to get used the mark scheme and know exactly what do and include.

Uploading the drafts onto Youtube allowed me them on my blog and gather audience feedback easier. As people could access the video on any device, as long as they had internet connection.

Tutorials for the adobe packages can also be found on Youtube, alongside vlogs about how to create a low budget professional looking music video. Specifically I re-watched a tutorial I found useful in AS to refresh my memory. An after effects tutorial of how to create a glitch effect.

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In AS my role for the thriller opening was editing and camera operating. Moving into A2 I felt I was in a good position to use technology in my music video. Although there were technology that I felt would be useful to get a better understanding of to create my music video.

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For the band performance aspect of the video, three DSLRs were used to get a variety of angles at the same time, two set up on tripods in different angles and positions. The last on a shoulder mount, so that I could get some movement and energy into thew video because it is a fast paced song. I chose to use DSLRs over phone cameras and handhelds because I knew from the AS thriller opening production and preliminary pieces that they produced a clear picture and were reliable. From using the same Nikon camera in previous media studies work, and to film a promotional video for a school production of the musical Hairspray a month before filming the music video. I was familiar with the cameras and how to setup them up for filming.

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At the pre-production stage I tested out how to use a green screen in practice video, as I had never used it before. This was beneficial, as if it was necessary for the final music video I would be able to use it and know what you can and can't do with it. For example I learnt that when removing the green background in Premiere Pro (using chroma key) it also removed fragments of my friend's hair, and didn't look soft around the edges. After testing the green screen out I found it wasn't something that would fit in with the style of music video I was going for. While i didn't use the green screen for a digital backdrop, I did use it as blank canvas for band member close ups in the dark (for the digipack and music video).