As none of the members in my group, myself included, knew how to use any of the programs that were required to create our music video, we had to experiment on the programs before we started the project. We all had very basic skills at the beginning of the production of our music video, and these skills developed throughout the process, as a result of their constant use.
The entire planning, editing and construction process was completed on 'Apple Mac' computers. Admittedly, this type of computer is out of my personal comfort zone, aswell as the other members of the group in which I was working, as we
have always been used to completing our work on Windows PCs.The internet was used as the main source for research and publishing work. I used numerous websites to assemble the research that I needed in order to gain the required information for my project; the main sites that I used were 'www.wikipedia.org' and 'www.youtube.com'. 'www.blogger.com' was the networking website that was used for the broadcast of the collection of documents that contributed to my coursework. This was used as a substitute for the traditional methods of publishing coursework, such as folders or sketchbooks, which I would have had to have used had I not had access to this website.
We had to use specialist equipment when we were filming/shooting the music video. The equipment that was necessary in the production of the video included;
- digital video camera (Sony) - this was for filming the video, and allowed us to easily upload the material onto the computer for editing and composition.
- digital photography camera (Panasonic 25mm) - this was used both in the filming process, to create evidence of working (the pictures are shown throughout my blog entries), and for the ancillary tasks, for which we had to take still photographs.
- tripod - this held the camera perfectly still when filming shots that did not require movement and was a necessity throughout the filming process.
- dolly - this allowed us to create a smooth, non-juddering camera motion on shots that required basic camera movement. On the shots that required a 'floaty' ending, we had to film the scene with the camera hand-held.
In order to stay in contact with members of my group, for example, when organising days in which we needed to complete the planning, photography and filming parts of the work, we used social networking sites such as 'Facebook' to converse. Mobile phones also played a large part in the production of our project, through the use of these we were able to stay in contact regularly, which was vital to the completion and arrangement of certain tasks throughout.
There were numerous programs that I had to use in order to edit at different stages throughout the construction process of the video. Firstly, 'GarageBand' was used to edit the length of the song; as the original copy of the song was exceeding five minutes in length. We had to cut pieces of the instrumental part of the song from both the beginning and the end to fit the exam board requirements.
I used 'MovieMaker' to produce the animatic presentation of the shots that we were hoping to use as a basis for shot ideas when both filming and constructing the music video.
The software used for the editing, and therefore composition, of the music video was 'Final Cut'. In order to access and edit the clips that we had filmed for the music video, we had to import them into this program and watch each of the clips as we needed them. We then had to find the exact part of the clip that we required to add into the video, cut it and drag it down the computer screen, onto the bar that held the composition of the clips. After finding all of the clips that we wanted to include, we then added in effects, for example, cross dissolve, and placed them over the beginnings and ends of shots in order to produce a smooth and professional shot transition.
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