How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
I
used a variety of different media technologies throughout each creative
process of my work, in order to develop my skills and gain a wide range
of resources.
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| Lyric Video |
For my research and planning, I gathered
a lot of information from the Internet in order to collect both primary
and secondary research. I used the Internet (particularly Google and
YouTube) to research into the song
Sweet Disposition and the band The
Temper Trap, to learn more about their music and the correct lyrics. I
used YouTube and searched through multiple different lyric videos, and
also used Google filters to find a lyrics website, as there is a lot of
debate over the official lyrics of the song. By using both of these
technologies it allowed me to narrow down and select the correct lyrics,
by combining both resources in order to make my final results more
reliable. I also looked at their official music video on YouTube to make
sure that my ideas were not directly linked to anything in their actual
video.
Google was also very useful for finding real-life digipak
and magazine advertisement examples, as I could use the specific
filters to eliminate any student examples and fan-made artwork.
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| Nikon D3100 |
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| Canon 550D |
When
I began to construct my music video, I used both a Nikon D3100 and a
Canon 550D to film outside around Nottingham and inside in the media
studio. I used the Nikon for the outdoor scenes as it captured the true
colours of our surroundings really nicely, whereas I used the Canon
inside as it focused really well on my actor's face while he was
lip-syncing, and also didn't over-expose his face against the studio
lighting, whereas the Nikon did slightly.
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| Cropped Footage |
Once
I had finished filming all my music video footage, I edited it all
together on Adobe Premiere Pro software, which I had used previously in
AS Media. With this software, I was able to add different transitions
and effects into my video, such as fades, colour correction and colour
tints. During this process, Izzy and I also discovered how to crop two
videos together, in order to create what looks like one video, when in
reality it was two separate occasions. We did this with a kitchen scene,
where we wanted the two actors to look like they were arguing, however
in the shot of Izzy arguing, Tom was looking directly into the camera.
To combat this, we found another shot where Tom was looking at Izzy, and
instead cropped that footage into the other half of the shot and
overlaid it so that the two scenes became one.
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| Magazine Advertisement |
For my
ancillary texts, I used Adobe Photoshop CS4 to edit my photographs and
create different effects. I used different tools such as the blurring
tool in order to mute the background for my magazine advertisement, and
also created a make-up like effect for both my ancillary texts using a
variety of brightening and darkening shades on Matt's face to make him
look more chiselled. I also used the colour correction tools and played
around with the different shades in order to create a reddish tinge on
my studio photographs for the inside of my digipak.
For
my evaluations, I have again used the Internet to aid my presentations
by creating different formats. I have used websites such as Emaze,
Slideshare, Prezi, SurveyMoneky and MakeAGif.com in order to make my
work more versatile and entertaining, rather than using the same formats
for each question.
