How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?
Considering the fact that last year i had lots of brilliant creative ideas that i wanted to put in practice however when it came to my skills regarding filming, editing and planning the project i failed. I was not aware of my abilities and i reached to far expecting a great result without actually having to learn these skills. The outcome was not what we expected, however it was the best possible opportunity to learn for our music video promotion package this year.
When we picked our hardware for the creation of the music video, we chose my photo-video camera Sony Alpha 68. Even though this particular camera's settings are so complicated and hard to descipher we used it because it has very good video quality and i already mostly knew how to use and connect to the laptop and lights. We encountered difficulties with the camera on the first day of filming when the red bright lights were used. We filmed in complete darkness and the camera would not focus and it would burn the image because of the red light. We managed to fix this by going on youtube and finding a tutorial on how to adjust the camera so it suited our needs. However without the amazing quality of the camera our video would look completely different.
For the best lighting we used some Godox professional studio lights. In the beginning in took us 2 hours to figure out how to set the lights to continuous instead of flashes triggered by the flash of the camera. Then we had to use colored plastic lenses for another one of the lights in order to create the red light effect and the other colors. We attempted to connect the lights to the camera, however i ended up compromising and using them on continuous.
Our laptops and phones were used especially for editing but also for communication during the coronavirus pandemic. The laptops were used for research, planning and most of all for editing. However the phones and the online enviroment played a very important part in planing the shooting of the video but also in staying in contact during the quarantine. We used Google Drive very much, Google Meet, Instagram chat groups, Facetime ,text message and most of all email and Tes Teach. Of course the platform for the blog is also very important,Wix.
For editing we used IMovie for the intro of the music video and for the rest of it we used Final Cut pro and all of its tools and attachments. In order to download the song we used Mp3 youtube converter and youtube for tutorials on how to achieve certain final cut effects.
For the Digipack, Adobe Illustrator and photoshop as well as Lightroom was used for editing and the Sony Alpha camera was used for taking the photo in the first place. When Ariana created the Digipack she was very well accustomed with the settings and how to use it because she had the fashion magazine task last year and of course Lorena used Wix in order to create the band's mock site. She also used instagram as a source for pictures of the artist and sites like genius to achieve a more in depth understanding of the audience and to retrieve all the information necessary for the site.
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