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

Blogger: This is an online platform which helped us to publish all of our coursework on to an online presence. By doing this, it allowed us to keep a back log of all our research and planning in the run up to creating our music video. This was useful because we could edit any planning as well as information about our band that we had writ previously. Using blogger as well as other students using it allows them to make comments on what i post meaning i will get peer feedback as well as teacher feedback. 

Video camera: We used a video camera to film footage for our Music video. Before using this, we learnt how to operate it and someone else in our group had better knowledge on the camera so I took turns with her. I took many shots when it came to recording because we wanted loads to choose from when it came down to editing and we could take different sections of the clips. This helped us hugely because some shots did not work that great but there was parts in them which we could save and make use of. Along with using the camera, we used a tripod to hold our camera still and to get perfect footage. 

Youtube videos: I watched many video clips of music videos on Youtube as it's full of them. I found this very useful because you can pause and replay whenever you want to break it down. I watched it on my ipad as i could screen shot parts quickly to use as examples when it came to creating our music video but also watched videos on the apple MAC computer because it's got a wider screen and louder sound allowing us to understand how we wanted our music video similar to. I also watched the music channels on tele because these were the most recent music videos out now and it gave us an idea of costumes, lighting, the different angles used and the colours used.

Editing our images: Imovie

When it came to editing our music clip, we used the programme Imovie. it was a simple programme to use because once you uploaded parts of your music clips, you could edit them together and it was layout in a timeline baased way so it was up to you to move the filming clips around and put them in order. We also uploaded our music sound note onto this programme also. All we had to do was drag the movie note under the clips and it would play throughout all of the filming. 

Here is an example of what the Imovie programme looks like. In the box at the bottom half of the screen are all the shots you have taken. You are able to crop each part and drag it to the top left hand corner of the screen. The top left hand corner is the real things, the music video. Then once you have inserted the sound clip of the song, this is the green bar under the images at the top left hand corner. This shows that the song is playing all the way through the music video. 

This is not the clearest image but I took the shot in action when things were being edited. The programme we used was I-movie. I have never edited any clips on this programme before or even on the computer but found that this was a very simple programme to use when it came to our music video. Every time we went out and shot for the video, we would upload it to this programme and then edit it on here. We added things such as transitions which was how one clip would run into the next clip whether it would be running into it etc. There was many different things to choose from such as part of the clip spinning out and then it fading into the next one. 

This is one of the tools used when we were editing on IMovie. This tool allowed us to adjust how long the clip was which we inserted and how fast we wanted it to be. We could change this by using the slider and by doing this, it allowed us to speed up a slowly recorded clip to fit in with the speed of the music 'Latch'

Photoshop:

Photoshop is a programme which I am very fond with using and came in very handy when creating my Digipak. This toolbar is the key thing used within this programme. It allows me to easily access different tools and there are many to choose from. When I wanted to insert a back ground colour, I would go down to the twelfth icon down which is a pain bucket. I also inserted text by Using the big 'T' icon. Once on this you can then change the size, font an colour of the text to suit your Digipak style.

 

My mobile phone: Throughout the planning stage of the music video, I used my phone to keep in touch with my team members so we knew what we needed to do next. Although we made a time table of when we were free, it was easier to remind each other via phones and text. This meant texting or irnging them was the best form of communication with them due to me having unlimited texts and phone calls which was low in cost for me. This piece of technology helped when organising dates to shoot and where to shoot for the music video.

Twitter and Facebook:

Both of these websites are popular within teenagers today meaning I could post my Digipak on here for audience feedback. I could also do the same with my final product of the music video. The audience feedback would include things such as the strengths and weaknesses of my work to look to improve on in the future.