The final cut video

Evaluation

Untitled from Lizzy Gaskin on Vimeo.

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

Every stage of my project used media technologies, from Google to SLR cameras.

There were 3 main stages to my project that I used medias for;Planning and research, construction and documentation.

The first stage the planning stage used the most variety, I began using youtube as the basis of my project, I used this to start looking a short stop motions as this was the original idea that I was going with, as my project developed further I used youtube to look at other music videos. Another video sight I used to both research the original video for my song and also to host some of my practise stop motions was Vimeo, a website very similar to youtube.

In terms of my initial practises I did with stop motion I did a clay-mation test using Adobe Premier Pro, however this was very tricky software and in fact I didn’t continue using stop motion.

For planning I also used Google to look up the lyrics (Linked me to lyrics mania) of the song I was making a video for and also to look at pictures of the band an finally research into the magazine adverts etc the branding of the band used.

For the construction of the music video I used a mini-dv video camera and to edit the footage I used imovie, the main effects I used on imovie was the bleaching filter that was used for the grave yard scenes.

For the ancillary tasks I used Photoshop to construct all of the elements, I was different colours, filters and other effects. I did use an SLR camera for one of the ideas for the digipak but didn’t use it in the end.

Finally the documentation was all done through blogspot, on blogspot I used polls to get the audiences opinions on things.

Re-done digipak

Just to follow the proper forms and conventions, I added a spine and a barcode!

Final Story Idea

I am going to have the beginning of the video an accident happening where the girl dies, she will hve a fall, it will then be the guy returning to her grave unable to cope with her death but then realising that life has to go on.

Death Facts.

From looking at this information the second highest accidental death event is falls, this once again would tie  into my song! I think this will be the idea that I continue to work with.

Story Ideas working with what I already have...

What could I make the burning photos and walking away into?

The lyrics..

When I'm falling down, Will you pick me up again, when i'm too far gone, dead in the eyes of my friends...

A suicide?..This is a bit steriotypical...

A death? This would be a good idea as they lyrics are to do with death..

Feedback and Changes

After gaining a lot of feedback about my video I analysed the results and worked out that maybe my video was a little repetative and that although I didn't initially want one maybe it did need a stroy go to with it.