Question 3

Question 3.) How did you use media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages?

Final Cut Pro was a superior software on imac's. This software is a industry standard professional software which enables us to edit videos including rich features in terms of cutting, effects tool and many more.

Blogger is a fundamental aspect of online media that enables us to share our work talk about them comment on other peoples work and many more. It was vital in order for us develop our online media skills and also establish our work to public.

We used video streaming websites such as YouTube to search for music videos that relate to our pop video in terms of genre and theme. It helped us find music videos that we can get influence by and also analyze for our benefits.

We used video cameras to record the footage for the pop video. We also used still cameras to take photos of the procedure of recording for evidence of self work. It is also beneficial to take photos in the filming procedure

 

   

 These are screen shots of markers in Final Cut Pro. We use these red markers in order to create a beating point which helps us to edit to the beat and cut from different base tracks.

 

     We use the razor tool to cut video clips on Final Cut Pro. It helps us to divide the video clip in two pieces and allows us to flexibly work on a particular video clip and add effects between the cut. The razor tool for my case was really crucial since i needed to cut even a millisecond of footage that made the final product as i wanted. Towards the end of our video we see an abundance of fast cuts between the belly dancer and break dancer. In order to cut to the fast beat, i had to use the razor tool to cut appropriate seconds of footage to create the fast pace edit.

 Photoshop was vital in order to create our ancillary text which was our advertisement and digipak. I personally used Adobe Photoshop cs4.  Here i have screen shots of a procedure i have done to create an effect on my ancillary text. First step is i used the brush tool and set it on 3pixels and selected a smooth brush. I have chosen the colour white.

Then i drew wriggled lines and gave it branches.

Then i used the rubber tool to sharpen the edges of the brush tool and make it spiky.

After the pattern was done i went on filters, blur and Gaussian blur and set it on 1.3 pixels. This gave it a glowing effect and suited my desire.