Evaluation - Question 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction, planning, research and evaluation stages?

iMovie - We used this program to make our Music video. The software enabled us to upload our camera footage so we could edit it and use for the final video, here are some editing techniques we used; trimming, mute sound, add sound, merge clips together, and we were also able to add lighting, camera flares to bring out certain shots, and text. For example; in our police interview scene we used a transition to make it look like a security camera and added the date and time aswell to make it seem as real as possible.

Camera/Video Camera - We used a Sony Handycam Cassette Recorder to film all of our shots and clips to upload and use in our music video. Secondly we used a Canon EOS 300D Camera to take the pictures for our Ancillary tasks which were a CD/DVD front and back cover, also a Poster. With the numerous pictures we had taken we uploaded them and as a group chose the best picture for the 3 covers.

Graphics Tablet - This was used to precisly edit photos and our logo to make them cleaner, neater and smoother, we mainly used the Graphics Tablet in the making of our logo, the original drawing was uploaded and using the Tablet it was edited, had colour added and the sides neatened. Using the Tablet was much more useful as it allowed us to use precision editing, whereas using a normal mouse would have made it a lot more difficult.

Music - We uploaded our song choice for our music video onto an iPod and played it through speakers whilst filming shots for the video, we decided to do this because it helped the actors get into character and also assisted them in lip-singing.

Research - As both a group and individually, we researched our chosen band online to help us understand their Genre of music and used examples from previous videos to help us in the making and planning of our Music Video. It also helped with the story line.

Web 2.0 - By using the internet we were able to research many different fonts and logos to use for ourAncillary tasks, we could analyse music videos to show us what they include but most of all for research into what our Music Video should be like.