EVALUATION: QUESTION FOUR

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and

research, planning and evaluation stages?

The technology that we used

• A dell pc• A iPhone 5s camera app• A video camera• Sony vegas editing software

Research and Planning

To get used to and learn how to use the video camera and Sony vegas me and Laura joined up with another group in our class (Gabby and Elsa) and we carried a preliminary task. The aim of this task was so we can practice our skills with the camera, using different shots and zooming in/out etc, and also to practice lip syncing alongside editing it all and putting it into practice on sony vegas.

Doing this made it easy for me and Laura to be quick with our filming and editing as we already knew how to use the technology…

…when it came to our real product, we took research more serious than we did for our preliminary task. We did a lot of in depth research on Rihanna, her music videos and directors of her videos.

We also looked at the background and history of our artist to help us gain a deeper more in depth understanding of what she is about and what the R&B genre is about…

… our planning involved organising a day Lexie was free to film the backdrop scenes during school hours then the next important task was to organise a full day where Jake and Lexie where both free so we could film all our house shots during that one day. We did this whilst organising costume and makeup with Lexie beforehand. We then planned a few days me and Laura could both sit and edit our music video together.

Other programmes we had used

Along side using sony vegas, me and Laura used Wordpress.com to help us blog our every movements of the project. We also used YouTube to upload our videos we made. Slideshare to upload PowerPoint presentations during research and planning.

We both individually used our own laptops at home for our own individual work.

Filming and Editing

Here is a screenshot of the editing process in Sony Vegas. Filming involved me and Laura taking turns to use the camera. In the backdrops scenes Laura filmed it all whilst I took control of starting the music and stopping it and cueing Lexie to start lip syncing. During the house scenes me and Laura took our turns.

When it came to the ‘texting’ shot Lexie had to hold Jakes phone whilst Laura sent messages from her phone to Jakes phone. We did this like that so we could have complete control over the phone during filming…

… the editing process involved putting in the official Rihanna song and muting our clips and getting them on point with the song where Lexie is lip syncing. We got this perfect during editing and was pleased with how professional it looked. However after uploading it to YouTube we found that the lip syncing had gone out of sync by a mini second and it didn’t look as profession as it did. This is something we tried to fix but there was no answer to it and sadly had to put up with it…

… also another problem we found was the quality of the video. It was a good decent quality during editing but again after uploading to YouTube the quality had been lost.

We used fade in/our effects for our video and this involved merging two of our clips together to create a [x] shape in which a fade in would occur.

Uploading our videoAfter such hard work we found it was time to upload our final video. After showing it to numerous of people we editing it a few times before we was happy with it.We then used Laura’s media coursework YouTube account to upload the video. Here is picture of what that process looks like.

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