How Did You Use Media Technologies in the Construction, Research, Planning and Evaluation

Stages?

How did you use Media Technologies in

Research and Planning?FOR THE MUSIC VIDEO WE USED…

• THE INTERNET-

YouTube- I researched into pop music videos where I looked at similar styles for my

music video and researched into what made a pop music video.

Google- This was used to look into Goodwin’s theory which helped planning what a

conventional music video should always have.

Vimeo- For research I downloaded Music videos which had all five aspects of Goodwin's

analysis so I could refer back to them visually during planning.

Casting Call Pro- This helped my research and planning into my artist Carmel Solo. I also

kept in contact with the cast on here whilst planning dates and times.

Survey Monkey- A questionnaire was made and linked to my target audience through

Facebook as we made graphs determining pop popularity.

• DIGITAL CAMERA-

This helped with the production schedule as I took

pictures of location and practised difficult and creative shots.

• WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER-

Before the final edit I planned what I wanted the music video

to look like with practise shots and edited together. I also

made a video exampling Goodwin’s Analysis Theory with

videos off of VIMEO

How did you use Media Technologies in the Construction of the music video?

The images at the end of the music

video were screen shot from the

video and edited on word and

photo shop then pasted into Final

Cut Pro

The song was copied of

YouTube ready to edit alongside

the video. It was then faded on

FINAL CUT PRO as the song

was longer than the needed 3

minutes,

Windows movie maker helped me

construct an early edit of the music

video. I also used it to edit together

practise shots and revision videos with

clips of f VIMEO.

Despite being new to Final Cut Pro the music

video was edited together on here. Effects and

transitions were added and colours of footage

were edited on here by moving the brightness

bar up and down.

Two Digital cameras

filmed all the shots.

Pictures were taken for the

ending and were edited on

WINDOWS LIVE PHOTO

GALLERY and IPHOTO

The song was kept and

used off of ITunes once

downloaded off YouTube.

We did this by clicking on

download and uploading it

to ITunes.

How did you use Media Technologies in the Construction of the Music Video?

After Filming with a DIGITAL CAMERA the

footage was uploaded onto FINAL CUT PRO

by importing from File onto the time line.

Once on FINAL CUT PRO the videos were put onto the

timeline where with tools were cut in sync with the music. To

help keep to the beat we used cut markers which made the

cuts jump to the right time it should cut.

We also used FINAL CUT PRO to

help put the videos together with

transitions such as the cross

dissolve between the girl alone in

her room and her in the room with

her boyfriend

To show the difference between memory

and reality I increased the brightness and

contrast on all the memory scenes. In

comparison reality is shown in a cold

effect. This symbolises how happy she is

in the memories and how unhappy she is

in reality through the cold and dull effect.

This shot is firstly shown in a cold effect and

later used in a warm effect to show how

reality and memory are coming together, she

is happier. To show this I increased the shot’s

temperature by moving the round icon up.

Final cut pro was used for all of the

construction of the music video where with

the crop tools I was able to make different

shots out of the same shot by zooming in and

cropping different sections.

After filming I put together the footage to see what worked and what didn’t on WINDOWS MOVIE

MAKER. Being familiar with this technology I used the SPLIT, ROTATE and TRIM tools to

construct an early edit of my MUSIC VIDEO.

This technology was easy to use where I had to import the footage and music onto the time line ready to

construct the opening to my music video. This gave me an early idea on how I wanted the final music video

to look and increase in tempo.Here I faded in and

out the music I applied bright effects

in visual effects

To import music I

pressed ‘add music’To add videos

How did you use Media Technologies in

the construction of the Digipak and Advert?

PAGES-

The digipak and advert were put together on pages where they were proportioned

and cropped to a digipak and advert size.

IPHOTO-

Here images were given some warmth by increasing the temperature of the

picture. I also increased the brightness and contrast with the effect tools

PHOTOSHOP-

With the use of brush tools I applied colour to my images, such as the pink cover

and also faded colour by clicking FILE and FADE BRUSH TOOL. This was used on

brightening the artists eyes with a blue brush tool.

WORD-

The early drafts and final designs were pasted into word then saved as images

ready to post onto the media blog.

In both ancillary tasks a lot of the same technology was used.

HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES ?

In Windows Live

Photo Gallery I

took this image and

increased the

brightness and

contrast to balance

out her skin tone.

Once the effect was

applied I put the image

into PHOTOSHOP and

used the brush tool to add

a pink background which I

faded so the grooves of

the door could be seen.

After using WORD to

add the artists name

and album title by

inserting a text box I

decided to heighten

the eyes and lips on

PHOTOSHOP with s

brush tool

This is the final image

which is on my digipak

and advert. It has

been overall edited on

PAGES and

Photoshop.

In terms of font I

experimented on WORD

and PAGES. I wanted a

font that looked like

natural writing (swirly, girly

and light) Here are my

ideas.

My digipak had to meet the same

criteria of a conventional digipak. I

used media technology (The Internet)

to get the information on the size of a

digipak and what is conventional of a

digipak

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With the DIGITAL CAMERAwe filmed extra footage,whilst we were waiting ouractress reached into herhood whilst looking to theright which I've transformedinto a beauty shot/ close-up

On Windows live photo gallery Iincreased the brightness andcontrast. In windows I saved it asan image and then opened it inPHOTOSHOP where her lips andeyes were heightened with abrush tool.

In PHOTOSHOP I then used a brushtool to paint the background bluebefore fading the brush tool whichbrought through the pattern of thewall so the image didn’t look flat.With another brush tool I signedher name It was all then puttogether in PAGES.

How did you use Media Technologies ?

In PAGES I started off with a shape whichI filled in blue. After posting into WORDand saving as a picture I then opened itin PHOTOSHOP. Then using a brush tool Iapplied pink over the top and got thiseffect which I pasted and enlarged. I alsosigned the artist’s name shown in thebottom right corner

Using GOOGLE I got this clipart oflips and removed the backgroundon WORD before applying a blueeffect and pasting into PAGES. Ithen used the INSPECTOR tool totilt it how I wanted it.

I also used GOOGLE to get theFacebook and twitter icons. In terms ofmy logo I used a circle shape in WORDwhere I used the free tool to make a Cand A to put inside the circle. I alsoused the font tool to select ‘Mistral’which is my main font used in bothadvert and digipak.

How did you use Media Technologies

in the Evaluating Stages?

To record my progress in the construction

stages I posted onto TWITTER and the

MEDIA BLOG up to date posts on what I did

day to day. In the final stages I also got my

feedback off FACEBOOK.

To create the answers to my

evaluation I used both Microsoft

and Windows PowerPoint.

During my audience feedback I recorded

two people on my IPHONE and used

GARAGE Band to edit it. This was then

put onto SOUNDCLOUD and pasted

onto my blog

With my webcam I filmed myself talking

about my audience feedback and what I

learnt. This was then edited on Windows

Movie Maker and posted onto YouTube

then linked through to my media blog.

How Did You Use Media Technologies in the Construction, Research, Planning and Evaluation

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