Evaluation 4

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

Movie Editing

When it came to editing, i had a bit of experience due to the project last year. Of course this year was alot mroe advanced editing, due to having to get the lyrics in time with the lip singing and the guitar playing in time with the music. The precision timer was a great help, it allowed my partner and i to place the clip in the exact right time of the video so that it all went in time perfectly and this was something that we wanted to be one of our strong points. Colourisation was someting that we only touched on, we used it to enhance the colours already on screen because our lighting made it bright enough for us.

Desktop Publishing

Creating the ancillary task, involved using a programme i had never used before (SerifPhotoPlus) and i got the very basics of it, luckily enough our ancillary tasks wernt goign to have much complication to them. If your look at my ancillary task you will see i used a standard photo of our artist and then used colours within the picture, created boxes and then added text into them, a very simple idea, that i feel worked. The photography as per say was not edited, merely arranged to our preferance. The layout as you can see on both the CD cover and magazine article are very simple, but this is the type of layout i was aiming for.

Canon Digital Videa Camera and Tripod

I found using the camera and tripod an enjoyable challenge, though once you had the basics of it, it was very easy to understand and work. The type's of shots you can use with a camera are endless due to how portable it is, we tried to accomplish this with out camera, working round the artist to get the best shots we could get. The good thing about using a tripod, is it gives you such a sturdy base to film from, you'll always going to have some good footage using it. My partner and i decided this would be a good idea to do when filming, we set up the camera on the tripid and allowed the artist to play the whole song in one given position so we always had something to go back to and use. To create a fast cut montage, you can either achieve through editing or by filming very short clips of the artist that you want to use and then in the editing stage you link them all together, this is something my partner and i achieved in our music video, we video different parts of the artist, for example down the guitar and then quickly cut to his boot tapping with the music.

WebBlog

Blogger wasnt a new technology to me, it was like the Camera, i had used it before, but only in a very basic version, this year, blogger has been brought to a new level. Alot more posting has occured, as well as new programmes introduced to upload audio and visual clips to your blog. I had alot of trouble posting these programmes, so there is no video posting on my blog, though there is alot more pictures and quality posting than last year.

Still Camera's

Still camera's were used within this project, mainly for location shots and to help us with our ancillary tasks, but this again was not a new technology to me. All the shots taken have been posted on my blog and can be viewed.

Lighting Technology

During this music video task, my partner and i had to film twice, the first time we filmed, it was in the hay barn with a single light, and due to the weather conditions it was hard to find a bright day to film on. After uploading and watching our first footage on the macs, we decided it would be a better idea to find suitable lighting and then film again. So we asked around and managed to get hold of a set of industrial flood lights, it was perfect. We went back to the same location and set up the lights and put our artist in position and it was spot on. We filmed out video like that and we also took our ancillary task photos there, the lighting was something that we did very well, and is definitly worth doing once lookign at the end result.