Q3:How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planing and evaluation stages?

The fig rig was a really important part of our filming process, it helped capture all of our tracking shots which is a convention of a music video. We used it for our establishing shots, panning the camera to show the location. I personally found it rather heavy to use and hold so another member of my group Dan held the fig rig majority of its use.

.After borrowing the media departments camera we realised we prefered Dan's because of its quality. This was probably the most important piece of equipment because without it the filming wouldn't have been possible. As it was Dans camera he was obviously the best at using it  because he knew his way around it.

Our social media was a vital part of our production process, it was our way of keeping the audience up to date with our artists journey. Throughout filming we took photos of the team and the artist mid film and the artist in photo shoots to give the audience a sneak peak into what the video would be. On instagram our captions were always from the artists point of view to give the fans a personal side of her. Our facebook page was the most successful its where we posted feedback, rough cuts and all the photos and little messages. Averagely we got around 42 views a day.

Blogger

We used blogger to document every part of the production process, we posted screenshots and all our ancillary and throughout filming kept it up to date with what is going on. It was also a way for our teachers to keep track of our work and the rest  of our team.

                                                     
Photoshop

I used photoshop when it came down to starting my digipak. Without it i don't think i would of got as good a product as i did. Photoshop was where i cropped all my ancillary photos, merged two together to create a cover that was suitable for my target audience. It gave me the freedom to choose what i thought was appropriate for my digipak like the colour scheme and font and using other digipaks for a starting point, mould together my ideas and make the come to life on a screen.

Premier Pro

premier pro was considerably easy to get the hang of as it is similar to the old software final cut pro. I used premier pro, alongside my group, to piece together all of the base tracks for our music video and slowly make the filming look like a conventional music video for our genre. We included effects that we made manually like flickers as the beat and bass increased so that our video was in speed with the upbeat tempo of the song.