Evaluation question 3
In our music video we used various media technologies for example brand new state of the art JVC video cameras so that we'd make the best quality music video possible. Furthermore during the process of the construction of our music video we used other media devices such as cameras for our ancillary products (Advertisement and Digipak) and tripods to keep a steady camera at various different heights and angles as well as a sound kit and lighting kit.
Other essential media equipments that we used were a hard drive this was extremely handy as we saved all our progress there and imac computers which opened up a whole bunch of media resources, for example blogger where we used to display research and also planned for future intentions we had for our music video and used for evaluation purposes.
Internet sites such as youtube were used for research purposes, with youtube we searched music videos relating to our genre so we could analyse and set a basis on what our music video could look like also so we could see how we could possibly challenge the conventions of our genre. I also combined youtube and blogger by posting up links on blogger of youtube videos.
I used photoshop in the manufacturing of our ancillary products (Digipak and advertisement), within photoshop i used a specific tool which worked to great effect which was the magic wand with this tool and the making of background images i successfully merged my artist onto a made background image ( back cover). In Photoshop i also added effects, 1 effect i found very useful was the lightning effect which i applied in the background of my inside panel.
After i used photoshop for my ancillary products i automatically exported them to Quark express as i found this application way more useful in applying texts, it was through Quark express where i applied the font ,sizes and colour of the fonts after which i put in the logos and copyright images. so in all the making of the ancillary products i combined Quark Express with photoshop to come up with the end product for my Digipak and Advertisement.
i used a similar combination between two other programmes which are Final cut pro and Livetype.
Final cut pro was essential in making the whole music video, in gelling together all the takes that we had taken. Using Final cut pro i used many different tools as i cropped clips exported files and added various effects that were needed to make the end product of our music video. A specific effect i used was the ripple effect i used it on a scene near the end which i believed helped keep the audience intrigued another effect i used was a dissolve effect and a cube spin effect which i used to transition some clips.
I also used some creativity to combine both Livetype and Final cut pro, to do this i inserted text in Livetype then exported it into Final cut pro and managed to successfully apply text into the background where my artist was performing. Using all these media technologies i successfully made my ancillary product and music video.
