Planning and Pre Production for Web Multimedia
I will aim to make my video around 50 seconds long so that I have a few seconds of leeway in case I need to add anything or the transitions add a few seconds, as I do not want to go over the minute limit for the advertisement.
Establish Target Audience:
The target audience for my MMU advertisement is not only new students, but also their parents, as it is aiming to capture their attention and make them see that MMU and also Manchester, is somewhere they would want to spend their student years, and for the parents, where they would want there children to end up living/studying. It is important that the advertisement is appropriate to people of all ages, as students can be ages 18+.
I will be digitally encoding my finished video, which means that I will be converting it from one file type to another. As I will be filming on my iphone, this films in .mov format, however to make my video suitable for web and YouTube usage in the end, it will need to be in .mp4 format for the best quality. I will be using Adobe Media Encoder in order to export and compress my final video.
There are many different digital video formats, which are each suitable for different platforms, and change the screen size, file size, quality etc of the video and audio as suited. Some of the mostly used video formats are: .avi (mostly on digital cameras), quicktime/.mov (mostly on apple products), wmv. (mostly on windows applications). Common codecs for exporting or compression are: .mpeg1/2 (supported by the web yet quite old), .mpeg4 (the best video quality for web usage), and .wmv (windows media video, which is also used on the web).
Digital video delivery options:
Delivery options for online videos are basically a digital download, or streaming options. Downloading allows the user to save the video and store it on their own computer/hard drive, and access the file whenever they have access to this laptop, and makes the video available online. Streaming is more ‘on-demand’, and allows the user to access the video from different platforms when they are online, whenever and wherever they like, an example of a streaming website is YouTube, which is the streaming website which I will be using for my video.
The bandwidth of a video is the bit-rate of available or consumed information capacity in metric multiples of bits per second. The video audio which I will be creating will have a bandwidth of 128(kbit/s).
1 byte consists of 8 bits and video rates are given in bits per second. For H.264 streaming this would be the target for the video which I will be creating: HD 1080p at H.264 high profile 5000 kbps (35 MB/minute).
The purpose of me creating this video will be to advertise the university and also Manchester, to show future potential students a little piece of the university in order to entice them to want to come here. I will learn how to film, edit and encode in this assignment.