Question 4- Evaluation

Question 4 – How did you use media technologies in the construct, research and planning and evaluation stages?

 

The Video:

The camera we used when filming our music video and also taking some still shots was a Nikon d5200 DSLR, this enabled us to have clear and high quality coloured footage which is what we wanted when filming so we could do whatever we wanted to when it came to the editing part. This made the editing easier as the clips were of better quality so needed less editing to make them look professional.

We also used a Manfrotto tripod in order to stand the camera on securely. It enabled us to take stable shots throughout all of our locations and also enabled us to have all 4 of us in the shot at one time. It also made the cloning effect easier as we could keep the camera in exactly the same place so the cloning effect was of better quality and looked more effective.

We used the Adobe Premiere Pro software when editing our music video and putting it together. We also used it to put the retro feeling filter over the shots, giving our music video the retro feel we wanted to put across. As we could see all the timings of the video and the music next to each other, we could also accurately put shots in where we wanted to in order to match them with the lyrics and the beat of the track. We also used premiere pro in order to create the cloning effect, also to edit the lighting and filter so it looked the same shot. This was a huge part of the storyline and video itself.

Another Adobe software we used was the After Effects. We used this to create the hand drawing effect on Annabel in the video. This is something that we always intended to use in our video and practised beforehand.

We used YouTube in different ways in the different stages of the course. We used it for research and planning when watching music videos for inspiration and ideas for our own video. We also used YouTube to put our video on once it was completed in order to then put it onto our online blogs. This is a quick and easy way to access our music video if we want to view it or if anybody asks where it can be found.

 

 

 

 

 

The Website:

The most important media technology we used for the website was WIX. We used WIX to create the majority of our website just from a template. We used a simple template as we knew we was going to add the GIF background and it would make the website look simple but effective which we wanted to portray throughout all of our media products.

For our website we also used an element of cross media convergence, this was through making a Facebook page for the band. When viewers of the website clicked the Facebook icon it took them directly to the Facebook page from a link.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We also used the DSLR camera once again in making the website as we used the short videos and images in order to create the GIF background for our website. This made the website look different and very striking.

Also to create the GIF and also some other still images we used an IPhone camera. As we just saw things which we liked and wanted to capture but didn’t have the DSLR on us, we instead took a photo with an IPhone instead.

Finally to actually create our GIF background we used Windows movie maker. We used this software instead of GIFFY because the quality was better on movie maker we found. So we used it to shorten our clips, speed them up and create the GIF.

 

The Record

We heavily used the internet throughout creating our album, both in the research and planning and also the construction periods. Firstly we used it to look at alum covers and inserts which we thought was cool and could use as inspiration. Such as Currents by Tame Impala which is one of our favourite album covers.

 

 

 

We also used the internet to find the right dimensions for actually making the album with the folding tabs and the size to fit a vinyl in. We found this information on a blog which made it a lot easier to create our vinyl. We also got the barcode off the internet which made our record look more feasible.

The software we actually used to create and put our album together was Serif Draw. The pencil tool was used in order to draw the foreigner’s logo which was commonly used throughout our products. We also used Serif Draw for the font on our album which again we used throughout all of our products as we wanted to keep the retro theme through all of our work. Additionally on the back of the album we included a polaroid style photograph which we made in Serif Draw by overlaying a white rectangle shape with the photo we wanted to put on.

Additionally we did use Adobe to import our album in the last stages before manually putting it together. We imported it so it could get printed to size which made our record look more realistic.