How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluate stages? (Music Video)

Throughout the stages of my music video, I used various media technologies. To film the video we used a digital image camera, without this we would not have been able to record any footage. The cameras have many useful features such as zoom, which is important if your want a close up and can be attached to a tripod for level shots that look more professional than a rough shaky camera.

The main hardware that I have used has been the Apple Mac; I occasionally used PCs to edit my blogs, but Macs were the tool I used to create my music video. The main software that was used was Final Cut Express as this has many advantages over iMovie that we have previously used; you can manipulate video clips in many different ways such as cutting, changing the speed, and adding effects. We could use multiple tracks within the programme so that you can have more than one clip playing at once; it also has the ability to layer clips making it easier to have one long clip playing and short clips on top to cut away easily. Similarly with Photoshop, I was not familiar with different effects that could be used, making the editing process very time-consuming for me. However, I found cutting and syncing the different clips fairly easy and didn’t have many problems, as long as I made sure the arrow pointed downwards to place the clip, and not sideways which causes everything after that to be out of sync.