The technologies used for our coursework include Blogger and
YouTube. Blogger is used as a way to present all of our work in one place in an
easily understandable order. I find that Blogger makes it much easier for me to
keep my work organized and makes it easier for me to know which pieces of work
are completed. As I have used Blogger before on previous coursework, I already
had an understanding of how it worked, meaning that I didn’t have to spend time
getting to grips with how to used it. I was able to use Blogger to my best
ability as the layout makes it very simple to know exactly where everything is.
One of the most convenient things about Blogger is how easy it is to embed
files from other sites such as YouTube meaning that everything can be in one place.
To design the digipak and magazine advert, I used Photoshop.
After taking the photographs, with a Nikon DSLR camera, that would be used
within our digipak, we put them into photoshop and altered some of the colours
and added filters that we thought were relevant to assist in making our digipak
and magazine advert tie in better with our music video. I already had prior
knowledge of photoshop so took on most of the work in this area. The other
members in my production group assisted in the decision making of what we
wanted our digipak and magazine advert to look like.
When filming our music video, we used a tripod and Sony HD
camera. This camera shoots footage in a high quality meaning that we could get
the best possible result for our music video. The camera had the built in
function of autofocus, but as a group we decided that we could get a much more
accurate focus if we did this manually. This was very effective and we found
that we could get a very crisp image. When filming the music video, we would
all check the camera positioning and focus before pressing film to ensure that
we were all happy with how it looked. We attempted to do a focus pull
technique, but when it came to editing the footage, we decided that it didn’t
fit with the video.
To edit our music video we began by looking into using Final
Cut Express, but after many difficulties with our footage not importing, we
decided that it would be best to at least make a start using iMovie. After we
began the process of editing the footage using iMovie, we made the decision
that we could do most of the thing that we wanted to include in our video on
iMovie so decided against switching to Final Cut Express. To ensure that we got
the best possible final result, we always referred back to our storyboard and
shot list when filming and editing.
I decided to use Blogger to carry out my evaluation
questions as it is the most convenient way of keeping all of the necessary
information in a simple and easy to manage format.
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