Whilst we have been making our music video, we have had to use new media technologies. Without these new media technologies, we would not have been able to research plan or make our music video.
Here is the hardware that we used to make our music video. In the image above is a Windows Vista desktop, screen, mouse and keyboard. Windows vista computer is our media editing computer used to create our music video and editing our work on the computers. Without the computer none of our work could have been created on the computer and uploaded onto blogger. USB stick is another technology that I have used frequently. The USB stick lets me easily transport my work from home to school. Without this it would not be possible to work from home and school so easily on the same piece of work. If I did not have a USB stick I would have to work on one piece at home and one piece at school and send them between the school and my homes systems, making it more difficult and more time consuming. Our video camera is the other main technology we have used, this lets us capture in real life action onto film. Without this technology we would not have any footage to be able to edit on. A video tape is the storage of the film, where the film is recorded. If we did not have a film tape it would not be possible to capture and look back at footage. We have also needed to use a charger, for when the camera is not in use the camera would need to charge its battery so that we had enough battery to film all day. If we did not have a charger to charge our camera we would only be limited to a certain amount of time filming and would have to buy a new battery every time making our filming expensive. To capture the footage from our camera to the computer an fire wire would needed to be used. If we did not have the fire wire, capturing from our camera to our computer would not be able to happen, making editing not possible and not letting us finish of making our music video. Other alternative methods are available though the USB cable, or wirelessly send the data to the computer. We also used our mobile phones, a communicational device so that we are able to talk to one another about our work and organise events for filming. If we did not have this device, communication between us would become a lot harder when we are further away from each other and organisation for filming days would be a lot harder. Also by having mobile phones with us it means that we can contact anyone of our members and actors when we need to. The tripod we used when filming, the tripod kept the camera still and steady so that we could get a clean transition from one shot to another making the movement of the video camera very clean. If an tripod was not used we found that the movement of the camera would be very jagged therefore what was filmed was not very good. We also used a camera to take real life photos of the different locations we had been too & documented what equipment we had used. This media technology visually lets us view in real life what has happened, if the camera wasn’t used it would have made it hard to document the different places we had been to.
By using the Computer this has enabled us to create our work on certain pieces of software, and being able to type out our work rather than write, making our work electronic. By doing this it has made the progress of our work much faster. Without this technology the speed of our work would be much slower and the quality also would not be as professional. This is due to not using certain set- out templates and would look neater than being written or printed out. Also being able to make our work electronic this lets use more multimedia functions, such as adding on videos/ images/links onto our work making it more visual and interesting.
The main piece of software that has been used to document our work is ‘Word’. Here we would write up our findings, make tables, format and copy & paste images into a word document. For example making a logging book.
We have also used ‘Paint’, to edit images on. Without this software I would not be able to create an image for the log book. With this piece of software I would copy and paste a screen shot of the logging book from word into paint, crop and resize this image and save so that my work from word can be saved as a digital image.
I have also used much more complex editing software such as fireworks, Microsoft Photo Premium 10 & Arcsoft Photostudio for editing images. If I did not have this software available I would not have been possible to create any advertisement for our website and would have not been possible to create the ancillary task of the album cover.
The other main software that we have used is the Adobe premiere pro Cs4, and video editing software. This software lets us capture our footage from our camera, and edit the film to our main music video. This software can cut the film so that only certain parts of the film are shown. Slow down and fasten up parts of our video to create a slow mo effect. We have also from this software learnt how to add effects onto our video. Without this software we would have not be able to create a music video. We would have just only had loose footage that would not have been any use to us.
We used the internet as a technology to research about previous music videos & album covers to use in our analysis and to base our music video/ album cover on something. We looked at the different types of album cover (narrative, performance and concept) and how each of these worked picking out different features for each. The websites that we would have used here would have been YouTube for the videos and Google Images for album covers. http://www.youtube.com/, http://images.google.co.uk/
I have also through the internet searched information about certain artist. I researched Lily Allen through the internet, looking at her MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/lilymusic , to use as research for our MySpace page. Due to that we choose that we wanted one of our ancillary tasks to be a website for the band. We created an account on MySpace Music and used this website to create their webpage.
We also used the internet to research the band ‘Take that’ for our star image, websites that would have been used here would have been searching through a search engine Google, http://www.google.co.uk/.
We have also used blogger, a blogging site to electronically document our progress of us making the media package (Music video, album cover and website), https://www.blogger.com/start . This has been effective due to that our coursework is not paper based therefore it is quicker to create work and document it; the work only needs to upload onto the internet, not rather being printed out time again.
Also we have used the socializing network face book to organise events for our media through sent messages and used instant messenger to help each other with the work if not in school, http://www.facebook.com/ . If the internet which is a new media technology was not available to use, we would not have been able to document our work or neither make our website.
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