Friday 24 February 2012

Photoshop

We used photoshop to create a poster for our music video. We have darkened the lighting to help create mood and atmosphere 

Friday 10 February 2012

Teacher comment

Perfect Day Elise

Very good and considerate understanding of the technologies used in production of the video, for example in terms of set design quality and the use of FCP to create colour saturation.
There are evident links between creative decision making and use of technology on both productions of the video using professional digital cameras and in the post production editing process – in discussion of match of action, lip syncing and graphic matching – using the effect ‘kulur’.  This is sustained and thorough and accurate in discussion of the branded themes of seedy hotel room for example in discussion of the ‘outro’ of the video.  
The commentary shows a discrete awareness of the use of new media technology and uses discriminating examples really well, particularly to selection and construction of narrative, editing techniques, such as slow-mo cross cutting and the pacing used.   Excellent command of terminology and well presented – understands and discusses convergence really well.
There is sustained justified decision making links between the technologies used the product and audience reception in terms of the creativity that the group used..  Recognises the need to account for errors in the post production stage.
This is a well considered documentary, well done and well presented work.

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Tuesday 7 February 2012

Task4- Use of technology in pre-production,production, post-production





In pre-production, I used several media technologies to help us in developing our overall concept for my music video. First of all, I used an online searching tool called Google to give me an idea about the star image and the genre of my artist. Since I was going to use the song track called "It's a perfect day, Elise" by PJ Harvey. I listened to her song on Itunes and then about her background on Island Record Label and Wikipedia.




 


Since my group were involved other school activities, I have decided to use my Canon EOS 350D digital camera to take pictures of the actors whom I think would be right for the music video casting. I also think thought that it could be useful for my group and I to discuss on casting when we have the pictures on the camera.












I used my Iphone 4 to take pictures for casting actors, to record a progress of my group's work and to test how the actors we've selected would be the right on camera by filming them.



Our production and Post-production