Using social media.

We decided to post our music video on YouTube so that a variety of people could view it. YouTube is a really good social media platform to gain views from all sorts of people which is what we wanted to do so that we could gain feedback from a wider variety of audience. YouTube is easily accessible across all different technologies such as phones or laptops so any content that is uploaded onto the site is more likely to be seen by many.

From posting our music video onto YouTube the members of the band we chose (JPNS GRLS) were able to view what we created and give their feedback. We sent them the YouTube link via email and gained a response from them saying how they really enjoyed it. If we didn't upload our video onto YouTube then it would have made it harder for the band to see our finished product.

We decided not to post our music video onto our Facebook profiles as we did not want everyone to view the product due to the possible negative connotations that it portrays. However, we did send our music video to a selected few via Facebook messenger so that we could get their feedback and see whether or not they liked what we created. I sent the video on Facebook messenger to three of my friends and Sam sent it to three of hers and then we both compared the feedback we got. Facebook was a good way of contacting people as it enabled us to get their response even though we could not personally show all of the people as they do not attend our sixth form. We were able to get a range of responses and all were unbiased as none of the people we messaged were media students and they all had not seen the process we took in creating the music video.

One of the most important media platforms that we used in the process of making our music video was email. Email enabled us to contact the band JPNS GRLS and ask for their permission to use the song 'Southern Comforting'. Email also helped us to stay in contact with the band throughout the process of making the video. We asked the lead singer Charlie Kerr a variety of questions via email that we were initially going to ask him during a Skype call which unfortunately didn't happen due to him not being able to make it. Email allowed us to still gain the information that we needed from Charlie Kerr so that we could carry on making the video. We have sent emails back and forth from us to the band throughout the making of our video and it really helped to be able to contact them whenever we needed to so that we made sure to incorporate their ideas.