4. How did you use media technologies in the construction
and research, planning and evaluation stages?
There were several different media technologies used in our
music video all of them serving a different purpose to research, create and
analyse the media piece.
The first and one of the most vital use of media technology
is our media blog. This blogs purpose was to inform our viewers of the progress
of our group’s media piece.
The blog allows us to post text and images of our current
research and construction into the music video. The blog is easy to use and
allowed use to create new posts and publish online.
Another way off of informing our audience is through the use
of social media. Previously our group has used twitter to post updates. This
year we decided to use Facebook as it is better designed to share video and
music.
For research we used the internet. We looked into the home
pages of other artists to compare and gain ideas for our website. We watched
other music videos on youtube to create a foundation of codes and conventions
to follow.
For the construction of our website we used weebley.com.
This interactive website allowed us to create our own site that we can add
videos, images and text to.
To design our Digipak we used Adobe Fireworks, this software
allowed us to create identical canvases to insert images and text to form our
Digipak.
For the construction of our music video, Adobe software were
used to edit and design different areas. This was useful because the advantage
of adobe programmes is they work best together.
For our image editing we used Adobe fireworks. Using this
programme we were able to merge image together and edit colours and shapes of
the image. Our group created a music label logo “Hollow House”. This image was
created in Fireworks and saved in a group folder to be used in the music video.
To edit the music and other sounds in a format that would be
able to copy onto the video, we used Adobe sound booth. This software allowed
us to crop the music files from youtube and also cut out areas of the music.
This was appropriate to cut out and sensor our music video so that all
inappropriate words were discarded.
To edit, create and finally construct the music vide the
software we used was Adobe premiere pro. This software was most important to
our music video creation. This programme allowed use to use all the clips that
had been filmed on the camera and upload them from a saved file onto one area.
Then we can order, transform and apply transitions to the shots to form our
music video. To finish, the software allows us to export the edited video into
a format that can be played via windows media player and uploaded on youtube.
For evaluating our media piece we used a different
technology. Prezzi was used to make a step by step interactive map. This
presented our information of one evaluation point in a more entertaining manor.
For the overall filming of our music video we used a basic
level camera with a tripod for stability. The camera allowed us to capture the
action of the music video and any extra sounds. The camera store the shots on a
memory card that was then used to upload our shots onto a saved area for
editing.
