EVALUATION ACTIVITY 4

A camera tripod was vital to our filming as it kept our shots steady and meant we could pan easily. Without the tripod our shots would have been shaky and we could not have achieved the important professional  look that our video has. 

We used google in the research stages of our project. To find pictures of artists from our genre and to find information about other artists within our genre. Also, we used google to begin searching for an unsigned artist. Without this search engine, our project would have suffered majorly. 

 Final cut express was crucial to the making of our video, because this is the technology we used to edit the entire project. We were able to add transitions, effects and most importantly, organise and edit our green screen footage. Using final cut, we were able to integrate green screen footage with some existing footage to create interesting and technical scenes for our video. 

 We used a blackberry to take some of the photographs used in our video, we used this because it is realistic in the way that the characters would take photographs on their mobile phones a lot, as they are more convenient to carry with you.

 We used ITunes to import our music onto our video. Without this programme, we would not have been able to add our song to the video!

We used Glogster to create a moodboard in the research stage of our project, we put together numerous images of props and locations we would be using in our project. 

 We used YouTube to watch videos of other artists in our genre in the research stages of our project. We also used YouTube to upload our music video once we had finished it in order to add it to our blogs.

 The video camera was of course the most vital part of our project, without it, we would not have had any footage. We used this in conjunction with our tripod to gain the images we needed for our video in the most effective way possible.

 We used photoshop to create our Ancillary products, this included our magazine advertisement and digipack. We inserted the images we wanted to use, manipulated the colours and sizes of them, and added the font we decided on using.

 In the research stages, we created a Prezi presentation on music videos. This technology meant the presentations created were especially effective and taught us how to use different technologies.

A digital camera was used to take some of the photographs we used in our music video (the scrap book) the pictures are clear, which means when filming them, they are more visible than photographs taken on a mobile phone.