question 4 for my evaluation in media

1. Evaluation
question 4

2. Hardware
– For my music video the main hardware I used was my camera and tripod. These
were very helpful as I was able to film my video with good quality and the
tripod made it easy for me to create a steady shot when I was filming. These
two are very important in the construction of a video/photographs.
– I also used a 16GB memory card in my camera so I had a large amount of
storage and my recordings were in a safe place and I could easily insert it into
the back of my mac, which is also another hardware device I used.
– Another really important object I used throughout my course was my memory
stick. This abled me to save my work and take it home.
– I used my ipod to edit short videos for my blog

3. Software
– The main software I used on my mac was Final Cut Pro. This was an extremely useful software
to use to edit my videos as it was simple to use once I figured it out and it abled me to do
effects in my video like slow and fast motion, reverse, crop and highlights. Unfortunately this
was hard for me to understand at first and took a long time to grasp the software.
– Blogger was also a main software as it was the one I posted my work on, this was a good
software to use as it was easy and I was able to post my work in order. It was sometimes very
hard to upload my work as I never seem to have good wifi connection.
– I also used imovie on my ipod, which was easy for me as I had used it before. However since
my ipod has small keys it was hard to crop my videos to the time I wanted them to be.
– For my ancillary texts I used photoshop, which I had to remind myself about from last year as
it was a long time since I had used it, however I picked it up quickly and found it easy enough
to edit my photos.

4. – The main dilemma I had to face was
the different weathers when I was
filming, as the first day shooting it
was extremely cold, the second time
it was cold and windy and the third
time it was sunny and bright; this
meant the brightness was different
throughout my video.
– Another issue that went wrong was
having to change my video slightly
because the tide was in the third
time filming, so I didn’t have the
same beach to film on.
– While I was editing I found it very
hard to match the lyrics to my
actress singing as she found it
difficult to sing along correctly
because she could not hear properly
because of the wind, however after
filming three times we were able to
get them synced.
– I also had trouble finding the effects I
wanted, so I ended up changing
them for something different.
Issues while
filming

5. With this shot I especially had some trouble because at any angle I did, the sun
would make the photo screen look very dark and give a lot of trouble with seeing it.
Unfortunately no matter what I tried it would not work, as putting shade over the
phone effected the whole video.

6. What went well?
– I thought my end product for my music video went well considering all the
troubles I had while filming, and the different weathers which effected my
filming a lot. Also, I thought the fact it doesn’t follow conventions worked really
well with the end product.
– If I had to do something differently I would have created scenes inside so the
weather did not effect my video as much, and made it less difficult to edit and
fit it all together.

7. As I said before, the software I used to edit my video was
photoshop. This was very useful to insert very quick clips of
video (as seen in the photo above) as I was able to zoom in
as far as I wanted and cut the video down to the size I
wanted. This made my editing very easy.
Also, I was able to crop my videos when things went wrong
(there was a tripod in the background in the photo above).
I used this a lot to get rid of something I did not like in the
shot or to cover up the tripod that I had accidently filmed.