With regards to research with use of technologies the main source of information came from the use of the internet, this was used to find artists similar to the band we was looking at making a music video for look at the different art work on these album covers and the style of their music videos via services such as YouTube and just take influence by these videos to create our own. While doing the online research we looked at variety of different album covers until we found on which we could use as inspiration for our album cover, this was a great help in the development of our album cover.
The use of YouTube was beneficial when it came to developing ideas for our music video, while watching music videos on television as well as using the internet gave us more ideas on different shot types and locations which we could use. Furthermore, we used 'pull' methods of consumption to find out more information on videos and therefore 'pulled' information towards us to help me and Aaron is the production of our music video. In addition, with the use of YouTube which gets over 100 hours of content uploaded every minute, we found various different examples of good and bad previous A2 music videos and therefore extracted the good parts of them. This helped us to create a idea of what we wanted our music video to look like and gave us a lot to storyboard about (EG. Shot types and locations)
When story boarding we were away from computers so instead of going back to a computer room to get the information we come use our mobile phones to find out lyrics or listen to the song again, this was an example of cross media convergence as we were able to watch YouTube on a different devices then a computer. Furthermore, we watch music videos on our phone or listen to the song or too get the lyrics up and used apps like Itube to find out the specific lyrics. Therefore, this was very beneficial when we were recording our music video to get the lyrics from the internet due to when the lyrics for the lip synching was forgotten as well as when recording the music when we were getting the timings the song would be playing in the background via mobile phone. (cross-media convergence)
When posting research and planning used blogger to keep, store and publish all of our work, blogger made it easy to access work when working on from home and from school making my life a lot easier to access files, images are also easily stored on blogger and easily posted this made it easier when analysing different album covers online. In addition, we were able to link work and embed different websites into the blogger website meaning we had a range of online methods of work which shows how we can use technology. Furthermore, we could easily change things that we were not happy with or update posts which could not be done with offline methods such as paper etc. Also with the changing generations of people technology is becoming more used and blogger was very suitable for the course.
When recording our music video we used a DSLR 1080p camera to get high quality shots throughout the music videos, we decided to use these cameras to get high quality shots throughout the music video this would make our music video look a lot more professional throughout the duration of It. We mounted the DSLR camera on a tripod to keep the camera steady, there was also a lever attached to the tripod to make sure the camera is steady. The entire film was edited using premier pro CS6, this made it easier to edit and we got a lot more effects and benefits from using the new program. For example, we did a effect called shadowing which went we placed two clips on top of each other then lowered the opacity of one to mirror the other one. This made the clip look like it was a shadow of the other one and suited the genre of music. Using premier pro made it easier for us to match the lip syncing up to the as clips was easily moved and cropped to make this a lot easier when editing our video. This saved time as we were on a strict deadline and need to get the music video in on time.
The album cover was edited using Photoshop this was made easier for me as I have used Photoshop in the past, the only problem I had with Photoshop was importing some images as some would not go onto Photoshop very easily but apart from that Photoshop made it easy for me to change the contrast and brightness of the original photo and the colours on the photo until I got something that I was happy with. This process took a while but what we ended up with we was happy with in the end. Furthermore, the process had a good outcome but there were problems within the different stages which meant that time was lost.
