Evaluation - Question 6

How did you integrate technologies – software, hardware and online – in this project?

Research

This was by far the largest source of research we found as searching for results were mostly accurate and were easy to find. Google was used to develop our plans and to meet the objective for our music video. We had done further research on EDM artist and its background which has helped develop our artist to be seen of more like an EDM artist. This was the main source of comparison resource we found to look through different music video of popular EDM artist and of what they do differently to other music genres.

Planning

Planning for our project had been done digitally and on paper. Paperwork was mainly to fill in our risk assessments and location surveys for filming each scenes and the restrictions for drone usage in certain areas. We had constructed a storyboard  which had mapped out what we would had to do and film at which location. This part of planning as exceptionally helped our organisation making us remember what scenes are left to be done and making the editing process faster. Parts of our location survey was done in video form with both the drone and the camera. This gave us a better perspective of which scenes would best fit the shots and from which angles look better. Aswell as planning which time of day to film to be able to accompany the theme of our music video. WE had problems at a location once with the drone as the scene was too dark which made it unclear and the characters were not noticeable. Planning was definitely crucial for our project as we had ask our group of friends to be the characters and availability of our peers were limit. Organisation was important as to what scenes has to be done next as our friends had time limitations.

Blogger was used to store our research and planning of our project. It was a very simple software to use, being able for use to share our ideas throughout our project groups. It gave us options to embed videos/documents from other sources of information which was great. Although some documents which were then embedded to the blog couldn't fit the format. Even though, it has been my favorite place to store my project researches and all of the planning aswell as being a free software to use.

                            
Filming

Hardware

The equipment used for filming consists of

DSLR Camera

We had the help from school with their dslr cameras to accompany with our video. This was used to capture images /videos for our coursework. The camera was used to capture photos of our artist(s). The camera of course was used mainly to capture videos for the music video and aswell pictures of our artist(s) to include it into our photoshoot session for both social media of our fan page and aswell for our album cover. 

As there were limitations to the ability of the school camera, further research on the internet has found ways to add in new features for the school camera. We had found an add on called 'the magic lantern' which had brought in many new features. But the most important feature we wanted to use is time lapse mode and being able to fully control recording frame rates.

Drone

This was an excess hardware that we had in hand which has offered us new angles for our camera shots. It has brought us new ideas which has been thought into our planning for the video. Many times their were problems that came in. The very first problem was when we tried to take shots from high above in our first location planning. We were not able to fly in our school area as it was close to an airport. The airport had cancelled all unknown flights around the barrier with a radius covering the district. There was a major problem as we had crashed the drone into an electricity pole which exploded the device. This had disrupted our plans but later on were lucky to have been able to get another one after the winter break to be able to continue our production.

Software

Editing Software

Adobe Premier Pro - This editing software was a more simpler option as we had used this before in last years coursework which was easier to identify editing tools. Although it had always this one problem which made it inconvenient to use as we always had to move files from different software to another which was time consuming. It was used mainly for cutting clips of part of the shots we took.

Adobe After Effects - Aswell we had used after effects before in last years coursework which was easier to identify editing tools. It was mostly used to edit the visuals of the video to construct it, to look alike a professional music video. This software had a large advantage to it which was being able to link it to premier pro and aswell edit both at the same time, which had made it less time wasting. After effects was mainly used to do colour grading and adjustments.

Photoshop - This software was used to accomplish our digipak and edit our photoshoot. We did colour adjustments and added filters to make the images go with the theme of our project.

Wix is a software which was used to create our website introduced by our teacher. It is known to be easy to use as promoted by our teacher to try and use it. When we tried the software, it was surprisingly simple just to construct our website but on the other hand it had always the software logo 'wix' on our website.