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How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
The first technology I used and one with which I am particularly well acquainted with was Blogger. This was the technology which I used throughout the beginning process of Research and Planning. In this sense Blogger was essential to the course. We used it to have a chronological order to our work. We posted our inspirational videos followed by the storyboards and animatic. I have, over the period of the course found Blogger instrumental to the completion of said course. I have found this as all our work has been in one place; allowing me to skip back over time and see what has been posted before, allowing me to keep consistency through the work by keeping it all in the same genre. A final way in which Blogger was used throughout the course was that I used it to keep note of the constructive criticism we were being provided on the Video and on my ancillary texts. Blogger therefore allowed me to construct my work in a way that adhered to the criticisms that were being left on the blog.
At the beginning of the course I also used YouTube a large amount. I used YouTube in a way that allowed me to research how a Music Video should be designed and constructed. I valued YouTube for the way it provided constant inspiration and continually pushed my work to become more professional and continually more creative. By being a able to view YouTube videos we could take multiple examples; take aspects of each and work them in a way that helped us to develop the final product for our media video. Placing these videos on blogger then enabled feedback to be presented to us in a fashion that was useable and could be created; designing our work to what people wanted to see.
Technologies that we used during the development for our media video ranged from examples as placed above and to such things as Tube chop. Tube chop was interesting use. Whilst being slow and often crashing; when it did work it was used it to present individual parts of videos that were creative and that we liked. We individually Tubechopped videos so we presented viewers of our blog with different sets of videos according to our individual tastes in music.
Technology that we used not on the Internet to film the video included two HD cameras. Both filmed in full high definition which captured the shots in a way that we were aiming to. We used to as the second, a Canon 500D was one I was more used to using as I myself use a SLR camera. Both cameras were easy to connect to the Macs we used to edit. We simply just took the SD card and placed it in the slots provided. This was useful as it didn't involve cables which provided one less thing to remember, allowing the process to flow smoothly.
To actually edit the shots together, we used my MacBook Pro. This made the process easy and smooth due to the simple tools provided on iMovie and the fact that it could be carried; allowing us to edit together at school. Having never used it properly before; the tools allowed easy and swift editing for someone who had very little practice with the software.
The software was then used again for the creation of answers to the evaluation tasks. The only problem we faced with iMovie during the editing stages was that it often would not let us shave 0.1 or 0.3 seconds off of clips; which was necessary to help the shots fit the music and in particular-to fit the singing and drum beats to the music. However we worked around this problem by shaving 0.2 seconds off of a number of shots, allowing us to spread the loss of seconds across the video; balancing the editing and allowing the music to fit with the shots.
An accessory that we used during filming was an iPod. For the garage shots we used Rhys' as it could be plugged into speakers. We used this in a way that allowed the drummer to find the beat of the drums; making it easier for him to play and in the longer term made the editing easier. we then used it to provide the speed of the lyrics, making it easier for me to sing them and again therefore making the editing process easier.
For the development of the ancillary products I again used my MacBook pro. I deliberately used this because I know it is the best software for the challenges that the course was presenting. I particularly valued the fact that it didn't once crash, which was a problem I was plagued with my old Windows laptop.
On my Mac I used the Adobe site to download a 30 day trial of Photoshop CS5. This was a piece of software which was instrumental to the completion of my first drafts. I had no prior knowledge of how to use CS5 but I had used Elements before so I knew the basic functions.
However, for my final draft I used Photoshop Elements as the trial for CS5 ran out. I used this software with more confidence than the previous because I knew the functions and had had plenty of practice using it from the previous year. I feel that this confidence can be seen in my final design by the images I have chosen to use. For example I had to use the clone tool to recreate the ceiling to extend the image; lining up elements of the roof perfectly.
For some of images on my ancillary products, and those of the filming process in the garage I used my own SLR Olympus E-600 camera. I had no problems using this which mirrors the fact I am well acquainted with my camera as I use often. I was particularly keen to use this camera as I know it captures colour spectacularly well.
For the majority of images I used the Canon 500D as it was on site during the filming of the warehouse and Croft Hill shots. However, this provided a few problems as I am not so use to features of Canon cameras.
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