Part 3

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and

evaluation stages?

Range of Technology I used to Create my series of Music Products

• Youtube: The site that hosts my videos, very useful for finding videos of other bands work.

• Vimeo: Useless website in my opinion, but was helpful in finding videos done by other students.

• www.beastieboys.com: The band website, I found the record label from this site.

• Fireworks 2004: If I knew how to work Photoshop I would have used it, but instead I used Fireworks. It still proved useful, but I wish I had Photoshop experience.

• iMovie: To me, the simplest and most effective way of creating a music video.

Process of Creation from iMovieDue to my only basic training with a Mac, did not know where or if the Mac has a print screen button therefore I had to use my camera to take the photo’s

Applying an effect to the video, the long winded way.

Applying a slow motion effect to the video.

Altering the length of specific segments in the video.

Process of Creation from Fireworks

Inserting boxes where tour information would be placed later on.

Erasing areas of my picture for draft five of the poster finally placing a new picture in the products. Testing various fonts to go with my

products. Learnt that finding a good font is very difficult and tricky.

Trying out an example on the cd back using a tattoo.

If I Were To Produce This Project Again…

The main problem I had with my music video was deciding on the song, I had originally intended to use the song “Guitar Gangsters and Cadillac Blood” by Volbeat since I believed that the song was an appropriate choice due to its many different themes such as villainy and segregation. I even in the summer of 2011 filmed the footage for a potential video. However I had conducted little research on music videos and the material I had collected would not have slotted well into a music video. Hence I changed the song in November and filmed again this time to the song “Sabotage,” by The Beastie Boys and I think you will agree that I made the correct choice in changing the song. I also if I conducted that project again would change colour scheme I used and stop myself from using green as much since this halted progression in my product. My product only started progression when I changed the green to grey and made the album look far more like a rock album.