Self-evaluation for me and Chan’s Media video From previous experiences with making videos (our production for year 12) we’ve learnt that planning is the key to perfecting any video. Planning and research was a vital element in showing depth to what we have learnt over the last four weeks. As me and Chan didn’t have a lot of time to produce a video, I think we worked well in making sure we made a short clip to the best of our ability. The first step was to storyboard our ideas and organize the camera angles and type of shots we would further develop in our videos. Although we obviously didn’t use all the shots, a brief number of shots allowed us to be selective of our choices and to decide what shots would be best used in our video. Storyboard planning is a great way to know where you are going and prevents you from having to start filming at the beginning of the video because you know what shots you are going to be using. We thought through ways of being as creative as we could in our video. We decided to give our clip a more visual and realistic medium and use different shots, such as: side shot and tilt-up shot of news reporter. We then used slow zoom in shots to convey the extent of how technology is used in our everyday lives (e.g. the phone zoom). I think one thing that was quite creative was the fact that the whole video focused around a computer and our actor was just typing the questions and facts into the Google search engine and a word document. I believe this conveyed realism, as it’s more realistic that society would turn to the internet to search questions and subjects up. Another creative idea was when our actress drew the globe on the whiteboard. We sped up this clip to give it an arty “Art Attack feel”. Our aesthetic and production values overall strengthened the performance of our video. We were quite good at organization and facts used. Although we still used elements of the facts we were taught, we also researched quotes and facts about the internet, which we then submitted in our own work. We made sure we used media terminology as a way of conveying to our audience that we know about the media. This could then allow our audience to find us more reliable and trustworthy. The main thing we lacked in or could have done better was probably the use of background sound when we came to interviewing media students and teachers in our school. Although I thought our idea to use a variety of different people to answer our questions and give their own opinions based a good argument. The background noise also made it harder to hear what they were saying. Although, another idea would have been to use some more of our own facts for video.