The first form of technology we used in our project was the internet. We used this to do all of our research on music video's, we also used it to research for our ancillary tasks. We also used youtube to view other music videos for inspiration and used google images to look at music artists album covers. The internet was also used to publish all our findings on blogger. It was mainly used for researching and inspiring us for our music video.
If we didn't have certain technology our media project would not have been done, this therefore means that it was an essential part of our project. We had training in every aspect of technology going from, lighting training all the way to being able to use an apple mac. Without the technology we were able to use the music video would not have been recorded. Our video consisted of us dancing around and singing in fancy dress costumes, i was the first to get hold of my fancy dress costume so we did a lot of filming quite soon and focused on cutting it down into a rough edit. We then had to wait a while for Joel to get his costume, once he got hold of his costume we did the same thing got as much footage as we could so then we could cut a lot down into a rough edit. Then the same with max's footage. We thought that if we got a lot of footage at once we would find it easier to edit clips together. The main programme used throughout the whole project had to be 'final cut express'. This is what was used to do all of the editing, this was what allowed us to cut all our footage and leave us with the 'good footage'. Getting footage onto final cut was easy you just plugged the video camera in and clicked file capture then let it play through until it was all captured on final cut. Once the footage was on final cut you just had to drag the piece of footage you wanted onto the time line. We wanted our footage to be silent so that the song was played over it. This was easy to do you just had to lock the clip, then delete the audio which was underneath the clip. When this was done you could then unlock the footage so that you could begin doing more to the clip. Once you had made a change to your clip or footage it needed to be rendered so that you could watch what had been completed. This was what I found difficult, all that I needed to do was select the footage select sequence and then render and then render all. We did a lot of messing around with the green screening, it involved lowering tones and messing around with colour changer until the whole background of the clip was checker-boarded so that then we could add images to the background.
For our ancillary tasks we used 'Photoshop' and 'Indesign' these programmes were simple to use. 'Indesign' was the programme which we used most, we used colour correcter to make the person in the photo go darker in some of the photographs, and we made one of the bodies go black and white whilst the background was still i colour. We also used 'indesign' to add fonts to the ancillary tasks, we had to use dafont.com to download more texts as we thought that there was a limited number of fonts on 'Indesign'. We found it easy uploading images onto our blog, all that was needed was to change the style of the image and then export it, and save. Once it was saved you just uploaded it like it was any other image.
By Brodie Hope
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