Evaluation Task 4

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

Throughout our filming process, we have used many new media technologies to help enhance our film footage and to give the audience a better experience when viewing. First of all, our film and project relied on one piece of new media technology and that is the HD camera we used to film everything that you see in our music on. We had to film our project on a HD camera so that we got the best picture possible out of a filming device. In addition, the filming process was helped with the use of a light box and stand for stabilizing and moving the camera in a professional way compared to having the camera hand held. The camera that was used worked perfectly and allowed us to get good clean shots which is what we were looking at, especially when trying to film the parts of the music video which require fine detail.

After the filming process was complete, we then had to gather all the filmed clips and folder them onto the computer program Sony Vegas. The computer program Sony Vegas is what we would edit all our clips on, and then rearrange the clips to create the film the way we want it to look like. Sony Vegas is a great editing software and helped us a lot when it came to making our music video. However, within Sony Vegas, the editing tools are great help for making the music video look professional. Instead of just using Sony Vegas to arrange the clips in the correct order to how we want them. We used it to edit the clips when they were in the correct order and make the clips look more professional  This included turning certain clips into Black and White clips, Flashing Clips and Slow Motion Clips.

As shown by the picture above, I have print screened an image of how we turned one of our clips into black and white to help us make our video look more professional. As you can see, with the many options and easy use of how to turn it from the clips normal colour and contrast to a Black and White clip is one of the many reasons to why Sony Vegas is a program that we enjoyed using throughout of project.

In addition, we used our smartphones took take pictures of certain things to use as evidence of how we did things or where we shot certain locations so that we could put the evidence and information on our blogs. With the use of smartphones, it enabled us to upload images and videos onto our blogs fairly easily and quickly. In addition, as our smartphones are always on us, it was handy to be able to take a picture or video of anything at anytime.

I also used the program, Photoshop to edit certain pictures and information for my album cover and digipak. Photoshop is a program that allows you to manipulate/improve photos. It enables you to improve and alter colours, change backgrounds, remove people (and replace them) and apply artistic layers onto photos, this all being helpful for creating professionally looking album covers and digipak.

In addition, I used the porgram Blogger to keep all my information for creating my music video step by step in one place. The program allows me to save all documents and information on the program for anyone to look at all my progress towards my music video.

Furthermore, the website, Youtube, was used to gather inspirational clips and clips from previously made music videos that would help us get ideas from to make our music video as professional as possible. By using Youtube to find music videos such as “The Fighter, by The Gym Class Heroes  or “Hall of Fame by the script, we were able to get ideas from their music videos and manipulate their ideas slightly and put them in our music video in our own version so that our ideas were as good as possible.