Intro to Unit 4

1. Intro Evaluation Task
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How did you use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?

2. In the planning and research stages my group used Facebook messenger to keep in
contact, this enabled us to be able to share ideas and research quickly between all
three of us. We also used the website VideoHive.com to look at projections that we
could use, because this was copyrighted we had to buy the videos but they were
high quality (720p) which meant they were perfect for using as projections.
When I filmed my animatic I had quite a lot of experience with using a digital
video camera and iPhone from AS and just in general home use. We edited the
animatic using Premiere Pro, which was advanced for what we had to do but
worked well because I knew how to use it from last year. So I was able to film this
quickly and edit it because I had already had parties with these tools.

3. On the production day we had to use lots of new technologies that we have never
used before, this included a iPad which was a clapper board, lighting desk and a
Song FX100 camera. This camera was more advanced then what we used for AS
(Sony NX5) as it enabled us the interchange the lenses for different purposes and
we were able to get higher quality shots.
In the post-production stage I used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit my music video,
this enabled me to easily cut, change and order the shots quickly since I had used
this application in AS when editing my thriller. I also had to colour grade my
video so I upped the contrast on all the shots and then made sure they all looked
the same and were consistent across the video.

4. For the Digi-pak I used the Adobe application Photoshop, this enabled me to edit
and place the images and text in a template of a digipak. I am very familiar with
Photoshop so was able to edit the photos quickly however, inserting into the
digipak template was a challenge because I had to revise the images and insert
them correctly. I also had to add the typical conventions of a digipak this included
a bar code, copy right text, name of album, artist name and the logo of the
record company.
For the website I had to use the online software called Wix, this enabled us to use a
template and just insert text and image where we wanted, we were also able
to rearrange the template to how we wanted so we could make it relevant to our
star.