During the research stage of creating our music video the media technology we predominantly used was the Apple iMacs (hardware) and the software we predominately used for the research was safari which is a web browser. We were able to find pictures of our locations, our song and music videos of different genres to analyse. Using the Apple iMac and safari during the research process was very helpful and made us do our research more efficiently. We were also able to check when sunset was on safari which was vital to our music as we needed to shot some shots when their was light and some shots around sunset time.
We used YouTube a lot during our research process as we watched numerous of music videos of different genres to get different ideas. A lot of what was in our final music video we gained ideas from what we found on YouTube and developed it to our own. Before the researching process I never knew that YouTube had a watch later button. This meant that I could find all different types of music videos and put them in the watch later section and have them saved for when I needed them at any time of the creating process this was a new skill I had learned.
Google maps was another software that helped us during the research stage. Google maps allowed us to plan thoroughly every location in the most time efficient way possible. We were able to see how long it would take us to get to each location for every scene we did this helped us create our production schedule and we were able to decided what days we would film what. Google maps also had the opening and closing time of different places this helped us know what time we should go to the gym before it closed before the researching process I never knew you could find the closing and opening times.
Planning
When planning we used Microsoft word to create a questionnaire this helped us print out a number of copies to hand out to our audience and have them answered. Making the questionnaire was relatively easy and not time consuming. We also used Microsoft word to print out the lyrics of the song Redemption this was so that our artist could memorise the words to perform.
My iPhone helped me during the planning process as we were all able to contact each other and make plans on when was the best time to film. I also used my phone to take pictures and because we used an Apple iMac and my phone was an Apple iPhone it was easy to link them all together.
We created a whatsapp group chat which I have shown on a picture of. The whatsapp group chat allowed us to share all our images that we had for Behind the scenes.
Production
In the production stage, we use Sony Cyber-shot DSC- HX300 to film our music video. Along with the camera we also used a tripod to hold the camera still and have stability during our filming. The camera quality was good and before the filming I never knew the camera had different modes for different levels of light this is something new I learned during the production process.
After filming we uploaded our footage onto the Apple iMac using our memory card which had 16GB this meant we could film lots of footage without having to worry about not having enough memory. We uploaded the footage onto iMovie which is another Apple software we edited the video on iMovie and matched the song to the lip syncing of our artist Ayo.
We also used Adobe Photoshop to create our digipak and magazine advert before the production process I had no understanding of photoshop now I feel confident using it.
We also used our iPhone to record a scene as we wanted a range of shots and our iPhone allowed us to create a selfie type video recording which we included in our music video.
Evaluation
Blogger was used to record our research, planning, production and evaluation activities from the start to the finish. Blogger was easily accessible and could be used any time not just during school hours it was accessible on my phone as well. I constantly kept my blog up to date and recorded everything I had done towards the final product. I tried to range my way of presenting what we as a group such as having videos talking about location analysis or using slide share to discuss initial ideas.
Social media was another form of software we used as a group sites such as Twitter and Facebook allowed us to share our video to our friends and to the world. Social networking sites allowed people to give us feedback on what we could have done and what they had liked.