The use of various media technologies was essential, as it is a large part of our modern world we used a variety of technologies. Blogger was used a lot since it was the main platform where work was posted and reviewed.
I first looked at all the categories of people on UK tribes and took some from each section of which I thought would appreciate the same genre as our fictional band. I then condensed the target audience into just one ‘tribe’ I thought the ‘Scensters Tribe’ would be the embodiment of my audience and it would be the one to target, this allowed me to have ideas based around this groups preferences.
The auction site E-Bay was used to purchase the drum kit that we used, we brought a kit so that we looked like a real band since we found inconsistencies with other amateur music videos such as using a bongo when emulating the sound of a full drum kit, we wanted the Verisimilitude to be as accurate as possible to contrast the unusual narrative. Dafont, the font archive was used to create a more original and specific motif for my text, since the pre-installed fonts lacked the flavor I wanted, so I downloaded more suitable ones, I also learned how to make GIF’s, so I could add them to my blog, along with this website, to add artistic professional aesthetic.
A Canon 100D with a Helios 44m-2 58mm lens constructed in Soviet Russia was used for all our filming we liked the shallow depth of field, and it was the closest lens we could fined that would emulate the 50 mm ‘lens’ of a human eye making it more natural. However for our preliminary we used a Panasonic hcv500, we would then take the footage and edit the clips using premiere pro so we could join them together and time it to the music, I did not have much experience with this software so it took a while to get become adept. After this long process I then uploaded these to YouTube, so they could be viewed and embedded.
I also used the Mac office word and PowerPoint (yet also used Microsoft at home) to insert and type up most of my research, I also typed most of my blog posts into these programs before posting to ensure all spelling was checked, I then used scribd to insert the word documents on to my blog by embedding them to a post.
Animoto was used to create videos on my blog such as my pitch about our video so that my peers could write comments about our video ideas, this coincided with the uses of Google forms to get feedback about my layout ideas from my audience. For transport of documents and images I used Drop Box and the Google Drive to allow photos and text to be used on any computer or phone.
Photoshop was essential for the creation and was installed on the college Mac, I used this to create my DigiPak, lyrics sheets and Poster. Photoshop is the most prestigious editing software used by professionals, so it was fitting that I used this program to emulate the real media industry. I learnt a lot about Photoshop in GCSE Media, learning about editing and manipulating images to suite what I wanted, this was a great skill for this year and throughout the course I developed theses skills even more. The poster/advert and DigiPak were created using Photoshop CS6 and CC2017 (a trial I used at home), most of my work consistent of many layers which all come together to form one piece.
To improve group synergy and communication we used a group email and Facebook group chat so no one was kept out the loop, we also used Twitter another social media to create a fake account for the band where we posted updates about the video.
