Monday 1 January 2018

Group Reflection

Who was in your group? How well did you work together as a group?
Within my group there was four of us; Renae, Pip, Ale and I. As we have been friends previous to this task benefitting us as we understood each others strengths. We all worked efficiently together as well as independently and gave each other targets to ensure all of our work was achieved to our best standards. 
How did your video get planned, did you do research?
Our video ideas stemmed from when we all sat down and pitched suggestions to each other. We wanted to be different from other groups, therefore we wanted to choose a different genre; country. We undertook a lot of research to help us along the way for the creation of all of our products. For example, we analysed music video and their visuals/formats, we also compared digipaks between country and pop as we wanted an aspect of both in our final product. We also researched all kinds of artists and was inspired by a variety of their work they have produced within the industry. We had to undertake tasks to help us understand what needed to be within our products, such as a cross-media branding task which initially helped us to recognise that all products have the same themes and icons throughout, ensuring synergy is used throughout to represent a unique band image. 
What technology platforms did you use throughout your process?
A variety of platforms were used throughout this project. The basic technology was blogger, which helped us to document all of our work daily and to present all products in a structured organisation. The next platform was what we used to edit footage- premiere pro and edit our images- photoshop. Presentation technology was also used as a way of showing our products as well as analyse them. Emaze, Prezi and Photobucket was all used to show a collection of our work which was then embedded on our blog; blogger. Youtube was used throughout for a series of work tasks such as our storyboard, stealomatic and to upload our final music video onto. Screencastify was another platform we used in a task to analyse a website we felt had good synergy with all their products. As well as this, our teacher used this to help us with our feedback on our website and this involved the user of a voiceover and spoke through advantages and disadvantages of our products. 
What did you have to consider whilst filming the music video?
Filming our music video was a challenging task as there were many aspects that we had to consider such as health and safety risks of the location and our costumes as well as ensuring we got all angles and shots that we needed to make our music video to the best product we could get it.  We had to run risk assessments on all locations, such as when we filmed at the farm there was a bridge we filmed on which we needed to be wary of with how we shot the camera and got all the angles we needed. In addition, we needed to ensure the weather cooperated, so we had to check all forecasts whenever we decided to film as we didn't want the video to look dull or bland. 
What are your strengths as a group member?
As a group member I believe to have excelled in leadership skills as well as developing within independent work and taking tasks into my own hands; taking responsibility when needed. As an individual I strive to achieve all of my aims and am up for helping other members, and vice versa, when we need to finish all of our tasks before deadlines. 

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