Sam's Media Blog

This is a screenshot of my original website, due to it being the first thing that a viewer will see, I took it upon myself to make attractive and eye catching. Therefore, I decided that my original idea was dull and resultantly changed the background to a smoke type effect. I believe this added a different visual aura and was more eye catching to the viewer. Similarly, I decided that having that many social media links on the right hand side of the page could become too confusing and too complex for the demographic I'm aiming to attract. Some of the social media links are to platforms that people of a younger age might not have access to these apps. I therefore reduced it to a fewer amount of the more popular social media platforms in order to make it easier for viewers to access any information. Equivalently, before any changes were made, this image as seen on the left was a still picture. I therefore decided to change it to a dynamic image, I believe this has adde...

Adding of Shots The production for my music video first started off by adding all my footage to my library on the movie creator (imovie). Then, using my shot list and script, I deciphered which clips needed to go in which time phrase to complete my music video. It was important that I did this as I wanted each my shots to be no longer than 4 seconds, this therefore helped me with the organisation of my music video and made it more efficient for me to figure out which clips needed to be shortened.  Editing Shots Furthermore, it was important that I stuck to my idea of having the majority of my shots no longer than 4 seconds, due to the fact that some of my shots were longer than my intended limit, I took it upon myself to shorten specific shots in order to make my video more professional. Similarly, I had to lengthen some of my shots in order to keep the effect I was going for. The reason for editing some of shots is because I wanted to keep the viewer intrigued an...