How did you us media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? - Part 3

When shooting the production I was able to develop my skills that I have learnt during the making of my Foundation production where I learnt how to position the camera for a successful camera shot that would draw the audience’s eyes to the right part of the shot, considering the golden mean and the rule of thirds.

Rule of Thirds

Golden Mean

Rule of Third

As well as my shooting skills I have also been able to develop the skills used when editing the video, as the editing this time around had to be to the tempo of the music as well as the shots to be synced to the music when lip-syncing needs to be achieved.

When using the software on the Apple Mac’s such as iMovie and Photoshop I was able to develop skills that were developed by using the software using a trial and error technique to learn the software I was using. Although I never used Photoshop entirely to complete my final versions of the ancillary tasks, the background of the photo of the card used on the Magazine Advert was edited out on Photoshop but finished off in Adobe Fireworks. However I felt that I could achieve the effect I wanted on Picnik that I had previously used and was confident using for the completion of the Digipak.

To edit the pictures for the Digipak the specific effects that I used were “Tint” which is a Colour affect and to make sure I have the right colour of white for the background so all of the Digipak panels had similar shades of white, and once together to make sure all panels fit together despite the slightly different shade of white I inserted a white matte effect to the image.

During the shooting and editing of the music video there were some technical issues that we came across. For example when filming the narrative clips from inside the house, extra lighting was required as the shots were poorly lit with the natural light available. This was easily overcome as we planned for extra lighting to be brought the setting, so this was used when the shot were too low lit. Also whist editing we came across a problem with the sound from the video footage as when we exported the completed video we become aware of some of the clips still having the background sound playing, and when making sure that all of the clips were muted, the sound still played. This has affected some of the performance scenes as the track we played during filming can be heard whist the clip is muted so we are unsure how it can still be heard. This wasn’t the easiest thing to overcome as the reason it was playing wasn’t because it wasn’t muted, as the clips were muted, so all the sound had to be detached from each clip then deleted to make sure none of the sound from the clips is present.

When the completed production is finished exhibiting them on online sites such as YouTube and Facebook is beneficial for receiving feedback from the audience, and as YouTube is widely accessible it is beneficial to get feedback from a large range of people that could be located anywhere in the world. Although Facebook also has similar benefits, unlike YouTube exhibiting it Facebook would only allow people that you are friends with to access the Video and provide feedback so YouTube would be the better place to exhibit the production as a simple link could be shared on the social network site Facebook to direct friends to the Video on YouTube thanks to technology enabling peoples online accounts on sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Blogger, Twitter and Hotmail to be linked.