Q3: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? (Evaluation)

What technology did you use?

How did you use the technology?

FINAL CUT PRO

We used Final Cut Pro to create our music video. Here we were able to add effects, change the framing of shots and helped to put different shots into one whole production. We imported the video footage that we took for our music video. We done this by clicking on file, import, files and then chose the shots we wanted to import and edit in Final Cut Pro.

We were then able to add the shots onto a timeline along the page. We were able to cut the shots to make them shorter and place them together. We also added a few baselines that we laid on top of each other and cut out the parts in which we did not want or need.

Some of the shots that we had did not have a good framing. We were able to change the framing on Final Cut Pro by clicking on an icon above the shot we wanted to edit and by clicking on image and wireframe.

One of the effects we added was the slow motion effect. We went to

 effects, video filters, then to video and selected the slow motion blur. We were also given an option box which enabled us to type in a number of how slow we acually want the footage to be.

 

Final Cut Pro was very useful for making our music video as it enabled us to see our shots on the side of the page, see our footage so far, the timeline and the shot we want to edit.

We made an anamatic on Final Cut Pro, which helped me to get a real idea of what the main product would look like once put together. When making the anamatic, we were mainly focusing on getting the three part shots on the three part beats as this was this most visible editing technique in our video. We used the scissor tool to cut out excess footage that we did not want or need.

PHOTOSHOP

I did not use Quarks Express to create my ancillary products. I created my digipak and advertisement both on Photoshop. I opened up a new page and started getting creative.

For my advert, I opened a new A4 sized blank page and cropped it in half as that is the normal size in which an advert is in a newspaper or magazine. I then chose the main colours of brown and yellow to match the floral theme. They are the colours one would assiociate with a sunflower, which links with my other products. I then added text consisting of relevant information and a flower on the side from the custom tool bar and also pressed shift and moved a still of the front panel of my digipak on the side of my advert.

For my digipak, I started by opening a four panel digipak template which I found on student, resources. I then decided what colour I wanted the main background to be. I already planned what the colour scheme would be throughout my products and decided a green background to relate to the greenery seen in the main video.

I wanted to make my digipak unique and I also wanted all four of my panels to match in some way so that they can be recognised easily as one product. I found some shapes on custom tools which I decided to use along my panels. I coloured the shape in a darker shade of green to make it visible.I was also able to change the size of the shape to my preference.

The layer tool at the side of the page on Photoshop helped me to see what I had on each panel and it helped me to remove anything I did not want by putting it in a small bin above.

SAFARI (Internet)

GOOGLE Images

The main search engine I used was Google. I mainly went on google images to look at other album covers, digipaks and adverts. I also did some research via google i.e Natasha Bedingfield's original record label etc. I was often linked to Wikipedia where I continued my research. Wikipedia gave me information such as the genre if the artist, their record label, their albums and release dates and other relevant information related to the artist.

I was often on Youtube looking at Natasha Bedingfield's original video of 'These Words' and the other videos that influenced our main product. It helped me to get easy access to these videos and was fast and easy to use as I only had to type in the artist's name and song name and click search! I often did search for other British artists who are in a similar genre of Natasha Bedingfield to get a sense of the codes and conventions of that genre.

BLOGGER

I was constantly logging into Blogger and uploading my work to be up to date with my blogs. I pressed 'new post' and was able to add images, videos and text. I could also change the font, size and colour of my text and well as have a spelling check. Blogger also enabled me to embed videos from youtube.