Evaluation: Question 3

Question 3:
How did you use your media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

While filming, editing and creating our videos and digipaks  i got to use many different forms of media technology to create our project such as:

• Final cut pro
• Quark
• Photos hop
• Blogger
• Google/ YouTube
• State of the art equipment

Final cut pro

Photo shop

Camera and Tripod

Blogger used for evaluation

Quark

Used for Research

Used for Video storage

Used for Research

• This is the story board in which we had the idea of having pictures of couples. We changed this idea as the story line is used in many pop videos. So instead decided to do a story line of two friends and one of them dealing with the loss of the friend.

Final Cut Pro

Final cut pro i used to import the clips from our hard drive and place the on the time line after watching each clip and cutting the bits we need and don't need. After placing it on the timeline i went to the effects tool and converted the shots not in the studio from colour to black and white and due to some clips being too dark we had to brighten the shot using the contrast tool. Also other effects we used such as dissolved and cross fade through out the video we used to show each memory shared, which was in black and white and gives it that idea of that its the past.

Quark
Quark i used to arrange my digipak  and type up my song names and artist name and title. I imported my images from photo shop and from my hard drive. On quark i was able to create a border for the digipak and the circle where the CD will go.

Photo shop
Photo shop i used when imported the image i wanted to use for my front cover but using the magic tool i cut around the edges to cut away the background and replace it with a cream background. Also by looking through the clip arts i chose a flower with i used to be on the front cover also to create that feminine feel. I also used photo shop to create my advertisement. I used to paint bucket tool to colour my background pink and i imported the picture i wanted to use and used the text tool to type up the information that should be on an advert.


Blogger
Blogger i used for my evaluation of my work and planning. While using blogger i have evaluated my ancillary products and main product and planned them as well. Also on blogger i have uploaded many pictures to make it more interesting and videos of other students comments on my video.

Google and YouTube
Google and YouTube i have used for research for my ancillary product and main product. From YouTube i was able to download the track for the song we used "Pixie Lott Use Somebody". And also watch many other films to get ideas from and use in my main product. Google on the other hand i used to find out more about the pop genre and the artist Pixie Lott as well as researching ideas to use on my ancillary products.

State of the art equipment
Lastly we were able loan equipment from the media department such as a camera, tripod, lights, memory cards, a hard drive and a still camera. Using the camera we more simple because i have had previous experience using the camera before. Some of our shots are hand held others such as the studio shot was on the tripod. We however used the hand held shots for the memories to make it look like it is a home video. The still camera we used to take photos which two was added in the video.
The hard drive and memory card are very important because we used them to store all of our work on .