Friday, March 4, 2011

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.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Digipack finished

The digipack is finally finished now all that is left to do is upload it to our blog. We was able to get the effect we was after using photoshop which allowed us to edit the picture to how we wanted. Photoshop allows people to manipulate a picture to how they want. The picture below has been manipulated using photoshop.

Friday, February 18, 2011

From the making of the music video I have learnt how to use new technologies such as a new hd camera and I have also learnt how to use new software such as final cut express. Overall I was able to increase my understanding of different technologies as I was able to use some of the same technology that I used to create my thriller work.

From the preliminary task I feel I have learnt how to lip sync correctly, I am now able to make the lip syncing coincide with the song correctly making it look fluent and like it is actually being sung. Also I have now learnt how to use final cut express as we used this to piece all our music video, I have found out that it allows you to do more on it than what we was able to do for our thriller coursework. With final cut express we was able to test certain things to what we could do with it we was able to do new things such as split screening the shots which meant we could have two people singing side by side on the screen making it look like they were singing to each other. As we were using final cut express we was always trying out new things to see what we could do with the video.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Music video finished

The music video is finally finished the last few bit was edited and put in. All that needed doing was editing bits into the fight scene like kapow, sploosh, wham and woosh this would help make the music video have a comic effect to it we also used the idea from 1960 batman which consisted of comic words when a punch was thrown at another person.




Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Wordle



this is a wordle, wordle consists of words that are common on my blog. I pasted a bunch of text taken from my blog which then created this word cloud which will help to make my blog look more colourful.