How I use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Below are just some of the technologies I used for the construction of my music video.

What did I use?

IPhone 5

Samsung Camera

Adobe Photoshop CS2

Sony Vegas

This was a very important part of technology as this is the way we constructed our video. Here we inputted text, edit the text by putting a glow or changing the angle of it. It also enabled us to make the music come in time with our video, and most importantly change the image of our video to an old fashioned way.

Sony Vegas

The use of Sony Vegas

Here I will explain how I constructed text in my video.

I firstly clicked on the tab, Media Generators and then text along the side.

Followed by this I clicked and dragged the text I would like into the timeline and a dialog box would appear asking me what I want the text to say.

Different options will appear like what type of font we want, the size and also the effects, placement and properties of the text. I made, font, the size, and effect all the same for all three forms of text in my video.

Below are the finished version of the text.

Another use of Sony Vegas

Another way I used Vegas was to put old film footage over my video to give it the old film effect. This is how I did it.

Like creating the text, I clicked on the video FX tab and we used down the list we clicked on film grain. I was given a few options to choose from, and we chose the option ‘Very Old Film’.

We then just simply click and drag the old film effect over the clip we wanted it to be on. Below is how it looks like.

The old effect covered our whole video.

The use of the internet was vital for our video to reach our audience.

One way we reached our audience was through YouTube, once we finished our video we put it on YouTube for people to see. Once it as finished, YouTube lets users comment on our video.

Another way was using blogger. I created a blog for people to

view my posts about my coursework and used it as a diary about what I was doing to my video.

For question 2, I used Priezi which is an interactive way of showing how my digipacks and my video are linked together.

Internet

For our filming we used a Samsung camera. This was just a basic hand-held camera. We had the option to film in HD, but we wanted our video to have an older look, so there was no need for HD. The camera can also attach onto a tripod, making shots more stable.

Samsung Camara

I used Adobe Photoshop to create my digipacks. This enabled me to input an image into Photoshop and edit it in any way possible. For example, my inside back cover, I zoomed into the keyboard and saturated the cover. I also adjusted the text by changing the font to yellow and putting a shadow behind it so it was easier to read.

Adobe Photoshop C2

The Use of Adobe Photoshop

For my front cover, I cut MacBook Keys onto the mosiac tile layer by selecting it the letter ‘I’.

Now that the letter ‘I’ is on my layer, I used the magic wand to make the cut clean.

Magic Wand on the toolbar

Here the letter ‘I’ is complete. I did this for all letters that are in the words ‘Swedish House Mafia’ and ‘One Your Name’.

Another use of Adobe Photoshop

Here is the text with no shadow behind it. It is easier to read with a shadow behind it.

In the bottom right hand corner, there is a box which says drop shadow.

Here I have several options. To make the text have a consistent look, I made the angle, distance, spread, size and opacity of the shadow.

Here is the text with a shadow behind it.

For my location shots, shots for my digipack and filming for my audience research, I used my IPhone 5.

This was handy for location shots as I could easily import the pictures onto my laptop and then onto the computer I was working on.

Secondly, the IPhone 5 was useful for my digipacks as I didn't’t really need a special camera. Also, the IPhone does not lose battery easily when it is in camera mode.

Finally, for my audience research, I used the video mode off my IPhone to film feedback I received for the music genre I was doing, which was House Music.

IPhone 5