Question 4 :How did you use media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages? part 2
iMovie
We used Mac software called iMovie for most of our editing because it is so easy and straight forward to use. We imported all our footage in that software and we put the song on the line with it. Even though it is simple looking software it has the ability to do some complex work such as changing the flow of our video so it gets faster/slower depending on how we want it and this was definitely a handy tool to have because we needed some parts to be slightly fast forward to fit the song.
AfterEffects
This is a more complicated software for editing the video which I mainly used to add the CGI’s. I played with the colours and contrast of the music video quite a lot to make it cinema style and I finally managed to get a greenish tent to it where it looked more like the similar music videos. I also had to over lay the singing part to the narrative which was impossible to do with iMovie so we really needed this software and it helped us out a lot. Other stuff like the blood and cigarette was also made on this software for our video. Finally I wanted to make the whole thing look faster and kind of “dance” to the music so I wrote a code for the whole footage which made it jump around and zoom in and out randomly. This effect was very effective according to our viewers.
Windows Movie Maker
This software is just like iMovie but it can support more file types and when we had our footage all edited and finished, to put it back on iMovie it wasn’t the right size and it was hard to copy it without losing the quality. So I used this software to resize my footage without losing the quality and I also added the texts on top of the music video with it. So it might look very simple but it was powerful software which saved me time to change the size of music video.
Video Converter
On After effects the output was set to 1080p HD video because I wanted to get the most out of our video but when I tried to put it back on Mac, it couldn’t read the format of the file which was expected since Macs and computers don’t really have much in common! Anyway so I changed the format of our music video to .MOV so it’s readable for apple Macs as well as computers.
iTunes
Definitely one of the most used piece of software to listen to songs on. We mainly used this to find our song in the beginning of the course. It was easy to look between the songs and find the one we needed thanks to the user friendly interface.
Photoshop
My favourite software was Photoshop which makes everything possible. We edited all of our images with that software and turned all the stills we had to posters and cd covers with this software. It can be complicated to work with if you are a beginner but once you know how to design with it, it becomes fun! I edited most my pictures for the poster with Photoshop. It is very easy to turn a picture to black and white scale and we used that effect for all of our cd covers to have the cohesive between all of our other products.
Internet
Of course communication between the group members was an important part and sometimes it was just simply easier to use Facebook to write our ideas down and only one of us type it all out. We used Facebook to find our actors. We also used it to send each other the pictures we took while filming and the pictures of cd covers etc...
Hardware
Hardware wise we used many different types of equipment such as tripods, video recorders and tape. We also used computers and macs for editing. The data transferring was done with portable hard drivers and usb sticks.
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