Final Music Video

Below is our final music video, album cover and official band website.

Website

Album Cover

Album Cover

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Q4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Throughout our project we have both used new technologies and software, as well as expand our knowledge of technologies used in previous projects. The following are the key advancements I have made in my uses/knowledge of the media technologies.

Research/Planning:
  • Camcorder for test shoot of lip sync and location reccie
  • Web 2.0. and social networking sites for audience/industry research (e.g. YouTube)
  • Blogger to present the presentation to the class and teacher, showing all our references and ideas
Production:
  • Stills camera (particular new technique of burst mode to capture 'action')

This shows the effects that can be gained using burst mode. We used this for the back cover of our album cover, instructing the actors to run towards the camera throwing confetti, thus creating the mid-action shot we used.
  • HD footage
  • Studio light (floor lamps, laptop to control head lights)
  • Here I am filming the band. The floor lights are lighting them individually, while the studio lights controlled using the laptop light the overall set
    Adobe Premiere Pro for editing (new techniques learnt in rotascoping/colour correction)
This film demonstrates the key processes we learnt and went through when editing our music video.
  • Illustrator to design the logo
This is the development of our logo. We made it look neater and sharper using the tools of illustrator so the image would look clear on any merchandise/website we placed it on
  • Playback when filming in the studio
  • Photoshop for the album cover
We used guidelines for an actual digipack to ensure when printed our images/text were the right size. We then had to use bleed lines as when it prints, it may cut/add to these guides. Photoshop worked well as we could also edit the photos to enhance the lighting and colour depth to make the album cover stand out and look professional
  • Wix.com for designing the website
  • 
    On wix.com I learnt how to create a flash website, adding in all the features of a bands official website (e.g. links to facebook, music video, music player, links to different pages)
    
  • Burning the DVD to hold a screening
This is me when in directing role - filming with the HD camera, panning using the tripod and instructing the antagonists as to how to move

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