Evaluation

4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Before we started constructing our music video we planned our music video storyboarding it as we were thinking of what shots to do and how to do it all. After we done the storyboarding we put it into a video in which we first started using the new software to make our video. We were learning how to use the new software and what sort of stuff we could now do with it.

We used new media technologies when constructing the video and one of these was a HD camera. We used a HD camera when getting all of our shots which meant our music video would be of a better quality once finished editing it all together.



To edit the shots together we had a new software which we used and this was final cut express. Having a new software meant that it was going to be a challenge to grasp and learn again a new piece of software to edit all of our shots together. After learning how to use we then began to realise how much more we could do with the new software then what we could previously do with the old software meaning we had more choice of transitions to pick from helping us to create a better music video.

We also used another software to create a comic book effect to one of shots this helped as it allowed us to create a still image using the software which was photoshop this allowed us to make a comic effect out of the still images which helped make our video look like a comic book being flipped open each time.



We also used a variety of other software which was used to either gather images for our digipak, poster or blog this was so that we could help make our blog look more colourful and interesting to keep people carry on reading the blog. We used google to collect pictures to post on our blog. We used wordle to create word clouds which consisted of a bunch of text converted into a word cloud which the most common words bigger than other words. Here is an example of wordle clouds.



Here is google in which was used to gather pictures.



During the making of the video we was regularly using email making sure that we were keeping the band updated on our progress on making the music video and letting them have a look at the video themselves on youtube. We was able to use hotmail to email them keeping them updated with how its coming along.



Before making the music video we had to get the music in which we could use for our music video, to do this we used a site called unsigned which consisted of unsigned independant artists. Once we chose the music we wanted we emailed them just asking if we could use their song in our video.