How did you use media technologies in the construction, planning, research and evaluation stages?

While shooting the powder paint scenes creating the correct lighting was important because if it was too dark then it was difficult to see the colours being thrown which would have really taken away from the effect we were tying to create. Once we had identified the need for decent lighting in these scenes we had to come up with a way to create the correct lighting, this is where we began to struggle because we were filming in an outside shed which meant there wasn't a lot of space to fit in large lights, to over come this we took one of the single florescent light bulb sticks off the ceiling and placed it in front of the actress, this created a bright light which effectively light up the shooting space. Although this wasn't a professional way of creating light it worked really well for us and created the specific high key lighting that we needed. During the shooting for the performance scenes we needed to have the sound track playing in the background for the actors to sing along to and play along to, this was simple enough to do in the music studio of the instrumental performance as there was a sound system in there which was easy to set up and was loud enough to play over the sound of the drums. However when it came to filming the singing side of the performance we actually filmed it in an empty class room, and because we were in school we were unable to access YouTube to play the sound track, eventually we realised that the song was on my Mac therefore all we had to do was connect the speakers via the aux cable and play the song through the main speakers. Once we had set the sound up for the actor to sing along to we were even able to pull the lyrics up on the white board for him to look at between shots. This was helpful because he was able to recap the song lyrics before shooting which meant that we had very few shots that needed refilling due to incorrect lyrics being spoken. 

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Once the video had been completed, we found it very beneficial to post it online onto YouTube, as this allowed a large audience of people that we didn't necessarily know us that would be spaced all over the country and potentially even over the world. This meant that we created awareness of out video. And because of the share feature on YouTube people who like it can share it with friends and gain even more views. YouTube was the main way of gaining views on our video, however this didn't give us any feedback, this is where the use of Facebook because important because using this site people we knew and were close to were able to give us personal feedback that we would receive instantly. Therefore we found this very beneficial as we could respond to the feedback we had received and gain a further in depth information on their views of out music promo.