Emma Pilling Unit 3 Evaluation

Media Nationals Unit 3 Level 2

Introduction to Media Production Evaluation.

For Unit 3 we created a music video for the song ‘Feel The Love’ by Rudimental.

In the duration of the unit I discovered things that I was strong at, and also some things I wasn’t as good at. I felt that I was particularly good at using digital media, I felt confident using the camera and using various settings on the camera. I was good at editing the shots, applying effects and selecting the clips from shots that we should use. I also think I was good at creating ideas towards the video of things we could record and the storyline we would create and being open minded.  On the occasion that we lost our footage I felt that I was good at empathising with the other members who were also upset by reminding them that it wasn't our fault but fault of the camera which destroyed the tape.

However I feel I wasn’t as good at communicating with the rest of the group and being organised, which may of lead to our group missing some deadlines due to poor planning of the video and changing our ideas as we find what works and what doesn't work with our video and the impression we want to create. We also could've been better at using the editing software ‘Final Cut’ however I don’t feel it was a great issue as we only lacked knowledge of a couple of things.

At the start of the process we decided to take the time to research the artist and view other videos of his by getting an idea of the type of videos he creates to give us ideas. We listened to the song repeatedly until we thought of ideas of what the song implies to us. We then incorporated the ideas we had to create the video and plan. The initial beginning of the video was going well and we were determined to try our best to achieve.  As we begun to film we were initially doing well, we begun to gather together some successful footage that we were looking forward to using, however we also realised we didn’t have enough ideas for the video and had to think quick of what else to put in, in order to reach the deadlines successfully. We eventually got all of our clips together and recorded the final minutes of the video, however the ending footage film was destroyed by the camera so we lost a large part of the video, which put us at a difficulty in creating our video. We then accepted that the deadline for filming was up but we were able to work with what we had and make a successful video. The editing process began and we managed to achieve what we wanted to, we had help from Spencer as we weren't too confident with the editing software however we did not rely on him for everything, only things we didn’t know how to do ourselves. In the end we got the grasp of the software. If we were to create the video again then I would’ve liked us to be more organised and more creative, and spend more time dedicated to making the video the best it could be.

We wanted our video to have an urban theme so we set the colour to black and white which we felt made the video look a lot cleaner and more consistent. We used the speed change to our advantage by making the video change with the beat in order to emphasise the rhythm. We used a montage in our video, by inserting related images to show and symbolise relationships. We also tried to vary our shots to make it more interesting, we used low shots, high shots, closeups, distant shots and tried to record from different angles. We used continuity to make the video consistent by fading in and out at the beginning and the end.

In terms of legal or ethical we clearly stated that the footage would only be used for our video and asked for permission from all of the people that were starred in the film. We did use other videos for inspiration however did not copy any of their footage.

Alice Clarke Unit 3 Evaluation

Media Nationals Unit 3 Level 2 Introduction to Media Production Evaluation

Alice Clarke

During Unit 3 we worked as a team to make a music video for Rudimental- Feel the Love. I found working in a group hard if not everyone was willing to participate but when everyone worked together it worked well. I like working in a team because i feel i have everyones help, but when I work independently I find i can focus better because there are not as many distractions. 

My strengths towards the team were to make everything fair by giving each member of the team have an equal amount of work, I tried to use integrity and take control of all work that needed to be done so that the group didn’t get too far behind. I’ve been trying to be persistent with work and keep it up to date and i worked independently and was very self-motivated and worked without the constant help from my teacher. 
During the unit i found my weakness showed when I worked in a team with other members that were not getting on with work, i found it hard to have to do other work because others had not completed it. At first I wasn't good at using 'Final Cut' to edit the video, but after using  it and learning different techniques together as we went along, as a team we got to grips with the program and were able to use it productively. Our team got behind with work, but we were all willing to put in time to finish our part of the work, we tried to get our work sorted and reach the deadlines.   

At the start of the Unit when our group was researching, we worked well to look at other videos and get ideas and inspiration, when we were planning our music video we had loads of ideas and all contributed well and worked well as a team. I am pleased with our final product and i think the editing that took a while to do, finally worked out well. We took a lot of time filming and this was important that we did so we had the important shots we needed. However near the end, after we thought we had filmed all the footage we wanted, our camera broke and a large chunk of our film was lost. With the film we had, we were able to work with it and edit what we had. The biggest problem we had was our project took a lot of time to do, since we were put behind filming more film that we had lost. Whilst some members of our team were editing the video and getting on with finishing our final product, others of us got on with thinking of any other shots we needed and making a shot list. We made good use of our time and took regular meetings about our project in and out of the classroom. 

In our video we made all of it black and white because it went with our theme of a retro, urban look to the music video, we also wanted to use black and white to make the video consistent. We used many effects, some were to speed parts up because it fit the beats in the song.We used montage in our video, where we chose a collection of symbolically related images and cut them together to show psychological relationships within the video. When shooting our video we tried to get different angles to make the video more interesting. We used close ups and wide shots and a establishing shot was used at the end of the video to provide a view of all the space which the action is happening. We used techniques of continuity editing for example, a fade-out to start and end our video. Since we lost some of our film was lost, when we had a chance to film a little extra film the uniform our actors were wearing was not the same, this caused continuity in our video but we were able to disguise our mistake with a montage of film.

In terms of legal or ethical terms i have explained clearly to all involved in the video that footage we filmed wouldn't be used for anything but the music video allowing us to use the music track. To make our video work well we looked at other music videos but to make it original we changed the ideas and made it our own. We had permission from all the members featured in our video that we could use any film they are in.

Emily France Unit 3 Evaluation

Media Nationals Unit 3 Level 2

Introduction to Media Production

Evaluation

In unit 3 me and my group emma,olivia and alice made a music video to 

'Rudiment - Feel The Love' We had strengths and weakness. Our weakness were that 
we easily got distracted in our work because we are all friends so it is easy to get

doing other things. Also i think another weakness was that we could of been a lot more 

organized. I think that my own weakness was when it came to working on the editing

program I didn't really understand how to use it at first but then i got the hang of it. I think 

as a group our strengths were when it came to using the camera and all the equipm

ent because

we were all confident of how to use it, we had used cameras plenty of times before. I think 

my own strength was when it came to putting ideas together I tried my best to come up 

with creative ideas on what we could do to make it better.

distracted

I think that the end product of our video was quite good because we kept trying our 
best to change different things and put our ideas together to come up with ways to 
improve the video. I think we still could of improved a lot of things, because quite a 
lot of our footage was lost so we captured some more clips which weren't as good but 

worked within the video, so I think if we had the first set of footage our video 

would of 

been

a lot better. I think our group was good at working together because although we

were easily distracted we all had our own roles for example Emma was good

at using final cut and me and olivia worked well in putting ideas together and

alice was also good at editing the video on final cut. We had a series of meetings

to put ideas together and we also watched a few videos on YouTube to give

us some good ideas that we could use when it came to filming footage

and editing the video.

I think my favorite technique that we used in the video was when we got a clip of

a train and we edited different parts of the clip together to make it look as if

the train was going back and fourth going to the beat of the music

that was personally my favorite technique that we used. But we also used simple 

techniques such as cropping the clips and rotating them instead of having

unwanted items or people in the background such as school bags,train railings

and even the side of people, by cropping the clip and rotating it,it made our Music

Video look more professional. On some of our clips we added the effect of Black and

white which made our Music Video look a lot better because it fitted more into

the Song that we used and made the Music Video more interesting. Finally another technique

we used was putting a flash into where the song started properly where the 

beat dropped in, it made the music video seem more interesting and before

we added it our video looked a bit dull but by adding the flash it shows

that we don't just take notice in adding clips to a song we listen to where

the beat kicks in and adds the flash showing that we understand how 

to make our music video more interesting. By using these different techniques it shows 

how we are confident at using the editing program

instead of just putting unedited video clips onto the Backing song of 'Rudimental

Feel The Love'

Our Music Video was Copyright because all the video clips we used we filmed ourselves

and we asked for permission to video everybody we used, and finally because our

Music Video was for educational purpose we were aloud to use to Track from YouTube

of Rudimental - Feel The Love'