Task 3: Evaluation

Video Ideas:

Superheroes - Comics

Origins / Alternate Realities?

The video:

Me talking about characters, there origins and alternate versions of the characters with images of the characters from google.

I will talk about Batman.

Video Critique:

My video is finished now.

It was kind of hard and was also time consuming But it went ok.

This is the first time I did a voice over. It was challenging because I could hear my terrible voice.

I got the video idea from the fact that i planned to do origin videos as a series on my YouTube channel.

My videos sound quality was distorted and muffled. I had to re-record all of the sound again using a different microphone and then i had to edit the audio levels. I also had to make sure the headphones were good and that all the settings and dials are on the correct setting.

https://youtu.be/HBb0MoOivm0

I edited a video which is an advert about a rubber duck, made for comedy and to teach me how to use editing and other important creative media information.

I am not very good at editing so it is not very good.

My research into comic and video game media helped me think of the idea of making this video. I used the DC Comic Database Wikia to look for the information about Batman to use in the video. The video was targeted to Comic fans.

here is a screenshot.


Some ideas from the original idea list were changed or removed entirely and some were just updated slightly.

My version of the video did not have any text or added images onto it because of time constraints and my terrible editing skills.

The original idea before we did the rubber duck advert.

DC Batman Comic Advert.

30 Seconds

Show images and clips from Batman comics.

Voice over & pretend reading.

No script, improvising the whole thing.

Different camera angles.

Someone else filming with the camera.

Make location look like a place where you would read a comic (Library).



Rubber Duck Ideas

We decided to make an advert about rubber ducks.

we made up what it could do including:

Connect to wifi
Connect to smartphone
Slices and dices food
Makes grilled cheese
Gets rid of sadness
Is a companion
Duplicates via button
Can fit inside a bag
Pocket size (compact)



I verbally gave my ideas to the group and gave visual examples on some of them as well.
I also appeared in the advert video itself in three scenes.

I know how to record my voice properly now because of this video, so if i ever make audio recordings again i will be able to do them properly.

I am better at editing and putting together videos in an editing software, my skills on this could be better but i can use these skills for future video editing, like a YouTube channel.

I know how to use video cameras and mics so in the future i will be able to set them up and use them for videos and recordings.

We made a mind map with the product name in the middle and what it can do around the centre. The idea of making a rubber duck was just a random thought that everyone else liked and decided to do.

The target audience was probably teen to adult because it was like a house item that did things like cook and do massages. The advert met the target audience because the audience that watch the advert have seen real ads and will find the over acting funny as the parody makes fun of adverts so they will be entertained by the advert instead of being annoying like real ads are.

Conrad found music that fit the advert and took on the roll of leader and actor for the video and told everyone else what they should do for the video. I was added as another actor and came up with extra ideas to make the video longer. Ethan was the narrator voice and Joella was the recorder who used the video recording.

When we first started the video project i was researching to make a superhero based advert, I watched superhero ads for the Wonder Woman and Guardians of the Galaxy 2 movie trailers to come up with ideas and a few obscure comic book ads. In the end we ended up going with a parody ad about a rubber duck that could do impossible things. We experimented by filming each other answering questions to learn how to use the video camera and microphones and we gave ideas for the ad and then I made an alternate version of the duck ad.

Billboard.


The billboard is trying to get creative people to do creative media courses at North Notts College.

The target audience is any creative person who wants to learn more about the creative media world.

I used images of different types of comic characters from different comics. They were big and on a blank white background and they are all famous characters so that will attract people.

The images have to attract creative people into wanting to go to the college.

We used the impact font to make everything clear to read.

The layouts change went from a group of characters all together with the writing in the blank spaces in the first billboard to the second billboard where all the characters were at the bottom and the writing was at the top.

I kept the colours of everything the same so people wouldn't think that the characters are the wrong colour which can sometimes bother fans of the characters.

I rasterised my images from a vector which changes the image from an outline into pixels so i could edit them better.

I transposed my images on separate layers so i would not ruin the images by accident.

I skewed the image so it was at an angle just like the billboard itself. This makes it look more like it is apart of a real billboard since the billboard image was at an angle too.

I also shift scaled the images to make them the right size without making them go blurry or stretched. This made the images bigger and visible from a distance.

For the billboards I researched and looked at different posters and real billboards to find out how billboards are set up in different layouts because I made two. I experimented by trying to draw some video game characters in PhotoShop but i was not very good, then I made a poster advertising creative media courses at NNC and also a random poster that was just to teach us how to position multiple images on the same poster without overlapping.

For the second billboard we went to a bus stop to take a photo of a real billboard to edit our design onto it so it looked more real.


If i did this again i would put less text on the image and make the writing bigger so it would be even easier to read and would take less time to read.

Conclusion.

Thanks to my lessons in creative media at college i know how to do basic things on photoshop and premiere to make videos and images.

I am slightly better at drawing on paper and on the computer thanks to my friend Ethan Hansen helping me.

I know a few things about how to use and set up cameras, video cameras and microphones.

I learned how to make a blog and how to edit and submit posts.

I learned to use simple shapes as a template for when i draw things and also for characters that wear masks to draw the face and then add the mask on top and then rub out the parts that are supposed to be covered.

I am slightly more confident in my ability to create physical creative things.

I am good at using layers in photoshop now and i remember where some of the tools are now as well.

I am kind off ok at video editing now.

I know how to edit audio and video separately.

I can change the colour of images on photoshop and change the shading and contrast and also invert the image colours entirely.

I communicated my ideas by writing them down, talking to others about the ideas and testing the ideas in the software before i used it for the proper thing.

I know how to cut parts out of images if they are not needed or how to get rid of an entire background, I can also combined more than one image together as well.

I know how to use PhotoShop and do creative things in PhotoShop like changing the colours of the image or inverting the colours, i can change the shading and removing parts off images that are not needed.

I can use all of these skills to edit the images, videos and sounds to target the right audience depending on what i am working on and who the target audience is.

When i first started i did not know anything about PhotoShop or video and audio recording, After a few days i began getting a better memory and i could remember the basics of all of the things like changing sound volumes, cutting video and audio or changing colours in images, Now i can remember slightly more advanced things like how to draw using a mouse or pad, how to balance the sound and a few other techniques with editing.