Rebecca Ankrah

A2 Media Coursework

When creating both my ancillary product and my music video, I first

began by researching my ideas. I used a variety of online tools to

help display my results.

Google was by far the most beneficial online tool we used when beginning

the project as a whole but was specifically resourceful in the beginning

stages as it aloud us to explore UK artists on a larger scale, giving us basic

background details on the artists their genre of music. Once we’d decided

on the type of music video we wanted to create, it made it easier for use to

narrow down our research title and begin searching UK artists of, in our case

Dubstep/Urban artists.

In terms of my ancillary project, I also felt Google was exceedingly helpful

because I was able to looking up a various album covers and magazine

advert for inspiration.

By using my Email during the research process, I was able to contact the

artists record label about using the artist song for our coursework project. It

also came in useful for a future enquiry I made, asking permission to shoot

Euston Underpass at a higher level from inside UCL hospital.

Youtube I feel became most useful once we were sure of the artist we

wanted to use as it allowed us to not only hear but view official music videos

from the artist. This I feel was helpful as it allowed us to get a feel of the type

of video we could potential make. Not only this but because we as a group

had decided we wanted to give our music video an Urban feel as it allowed

us to more creative and portray a narrative, Youtube also came in handy

when looking up more Urban styled video for inspiration.

When planning our music video, we used a substantial amount of different

media technology and equipment to help present all our ideas and any

changes we had made as we progressed further in our project.

In terms of my ancillary project, I took the same approach when planning,

using the Internet for example, to get some inspiration.

Brainstorm/Moodboard, Timetoast, Vlogs, Prezi, Hand draw illustrations, Flip

camera, Still camera, Blogger

Our final song choice is: Skream & Example - Shot myself in the foot again

Firstly, out of our top three songs, there was a unanimous decision to select this song as our final choice. The reasons for this is because we all thought that this we would be ideal for creating a video structured on fast pace base track editing, as it has quite an aggressive Dubstep beat.

The song can be interpreted in many ways and we thought, because the song is quite 'busy' we could use simplistic backgrounds, but a range of camera shots to enhance the images. For example, stop motion blurs could be used to either assist the narrative, or distort the video to accompany the different sounds that make up the Dubstep soundtrack.

We used Timetoast, an online presentation app, to help map out our

Production schedule… (complete)

Here is a print screen shot of the vlog my group and I made on the Location,

Props and Costume we planned to use in our project. In short, we discussed,

for example our four Locations which were Euston Underpass, Liverpool

Street, Shoreditch and a Kitchen Room. We then went on to explaining the

reasons behind our ideas. Although we made some changes, I don’t feel it

took away from what we’d initially planned visually. Bellow, I’ve also added

a screen shot of potential Costume wear from our pitch presentation.

We used Prezi as a way to present our pitch as it allowed us to both illustrate

and bullet point our ideas.

Here I’ve posted a copy of my mock-up, illustrating my initial ideas for how

I’d planned for both my Album Cover and my Advertisement to look.

Blogger was used to post all our ideas and finds throughout the entire

processes of creating both our music video and ancillary work.

When constructing our music video, we used a variety of editing software

and recording equipment to help piece together our music video and

ancillary work, as well as using it to record feedback.

Flip Camera, Sill Camera, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Blogger.

We used both the flip camera and still camera to film behind the scene as

we recorded our music video. We also used the flip came in the planning

stage to film our pitch presentation and again in the evaluation stage to

collect audience feedback.

Doing refection posts at the end of every stage of the project I think was

helpful as it explains how we’ve improved throughout the project and also,

what we hope to achieve as we progressed further. This came in handy

when planning for our evaluation questions.

Doing posts from the beginning of the project helped me to reflect on my progress

and see how I’ve improved. The ability to go back and check logs is what makes

blogger such a useful tool. I also found blogger to be useful because it allowed us to

add pictures, video, ect. to help illustrate our ideas and present the in a way that’s

visually appealing. The fact that we were able to tag our names on our posts also

proved to be useful as it made searching for our previous blogs easier.