Evaluation of Practice Task

Here are some questions evaluating our practice music video 'I wanna be sedated' by Offspring

Identify the task as well as the song/artist?
Our opractice A2 media task was to construst a media music video to the song 'I wanna be sedated' by Offspring.

How have you used digital technology during the construstion of your video?
During the making of the music video we used a digital camera, tripod and a tape in order for our filming to happen. Once filming was done use used an iMac computer to upload our footage from the camera onto iMovieHD. Once all the footage had been uploaded we used the iMovie software to compose all the editing in order for the music video to be completed. We used special effects such as speeding up the footage and putting some in reverse in order to make the video a success, as it went well with the song. The group and i were happy with the vifeo we needed to create a youtube account and a googlemail account so we can upload our video to youtube, so we can put it on the blog.

Discuss the planning stage of your production and the steps that you went through?
The planning of the production, is very important as it gives you a guideline of how the task is going to be completed. When tghe song was given to us, we prinited of the lyrics and thought of ideas of how we were going about filming the piece. We created an action plan which is below which covers the majority of our planning. There were many videos of the song on Youtube, however, there wasn't an official video, which didn't really help us with ideas. this allowed us to be creative, as the music video was all our ideas, which helped make it more enjoyable.

How did your research into music videos contribute to the development of your own production?
In order to make our video as successful as possible the group research rock genre convention, which helped us to use props associated with the rock genre. From previous years who took media and produced simillar products we watched through their to analyse which things worked and which didn't work as well. this gave us a brief idea of what things to include etc.

What do you think are the main strengths and weaknesses in your production?
I feel our music video contained many stengths such as the storyline went well with the lyrics even those we used lyrics cards, which made the audience more aware. There was a good use of editing and a variety of shots used. I believe that the lip syncing worked well, considering it was a hard task to manage, although once section could have been done better, which would contribute to a weakness towards our music video. The group and myself found the song very repetive which caused us to have a lack of shots, as we only had a short time to film and we needed to make use of the setting and props available. With audience feedback, they said that there was:
- a good link between lyrics and content
- good use of the clock
- editing was good
- the lyrics cards helped to memorise the lyrics
- the running around of the tree went well with the fast motion as well as the story behind it
- it was cut to the beat of the song
- lip syncing was on time
The majority of the feedback recieved was all very positive.