Evaluation task 4- pre production

Here below are the media technology’s I used which played a very important part of all process within my media production,particularly in pre production. In the industry such as film, television, photography and digital video pre-production refers to the tasks that must be completed or executed before filming or shooting begins. This include finding the actors or models, budgeting, scheduling, renting equipment, building the sets and tests.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/pre_production.html

Youtube- to research other music videos.it is an online video broadcasting site where other media record companies. Here is a URL link..Here is a link to our music video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-SLbnvm1cU

E-Blogger- tool and was an on going diary that helped with our decision
                                                                      Making. In order to display all this information and research we had done, we used E-Blogger. This online tool helped me publish all the create pieces of work that I had done. Within my blog are the discussions and my personal thoughts and interpretations of the new media technologies that I had used in order to make, plan and research ideas for the music video. Blogger can be made personal and you can upload work from external sources such as, slide share,word, prizes etc.

http://www.blogger.com/tour_start.g

At this early stage of the process, we were researching and finding out what genre of music we wanted to do. Having used this search engine Google, we looked up the grime genre and artists within this genre. Firstly wikipedia, is a ver well know online encyclopedia that gave us the definition of grime. It gave us more than enough information about it and even told us the pioneers of the genre, (Dizzee Rascle, Wiley and roll deep)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grime_(music)

Wikipedia- to find out more information about the artist Mikill Pane.
                    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki. Our final decision was the record company 'No hats no hoods'. The reason why we chose this was because of he reputation which was already there and the brand image. The UK's biggest grime label was No hats no hoods.http://www.nohatsnohoods.bigcartel.com/

Our prelims (which were a test run before our music videos) we used the Sony F3 cameras to shoot the footage we wanted. Also with these Sony cameras I used it to film the animatic too. This was another way of making a piece of work more creative and bringing it to life, with this also gave us a better insight of what the video was roughly going to look like. In order to cast the actors for our music video we used our mobile phones cameras and uploaded them to our blogs. It was a quick and effective way to capture picture of our actors.

http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/product/xdcamcamcorders/pmw-f3k/overview 

A difficulty that we faced was finding the music track in a (WAV) format. We need this music file not only for the post production stages but also for the shoot day, so we could shoot in time with the song. Having looked all over the internet and looked for the hard copy in music shops such as HMV, it was no where to be found. So we e-mailed Mikill Pane himself asking if we could have a WAV file, but there was no reply. So in the end we used a high quality Mp3 file which worked well and had a good enough sound.