How did you use
media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation
stages?
Tripod - I
used a tripod to record in the majority of the music video. This is to keep the
camera steady and makes it easier for me to Pan and adjust the camera to the
way I directed my shots. My tripod also played a very important part in my
masking shots, without the camera being still it would’ve made the masking
almost near impossible to do in after effects.



Wave
Projector – I used the wave projector for the photo-shoot and music video. It
helped set an ambient mood for my music video and provided aid to narrate the
story of my music video.
Samsung
Galaxy S6 Edge – I used my phone to help obtain feedback and also play the song
throughout the music video shoot. It also helped for spontaneous research, and was handy for me to type in the memo pad whenever I wanted to note down ideas, or plan a schedule for my shoot, and keep reminders.
Blogger
– I was familiar with using blogger for my AS coursework so I felt comfortable
using it this year as a platform for my A2 coursework. It’s easy to upload
pictures and embed videos and express all my research and planning on here.

Adobe
After Effects - Adobe after effects were
used for all my masking shots. It was easy to use but took a lot of time and
effort and masking wasn’t easy, as it seemed. However adobe after effects
delivered a great platform to edit my masking shots frame by frame.
Photoshop CS4 – I was slightly familiar with other Photoshop softwares such as GIMP, yet I haven’t used such a program for a few years. So I felt like a beginner, but Photoshop was easy and quick to learn. I used it to produce my digipak and magazine advert. It inhibited me with the power to create what I envisioned my digipak and magazine advert to become.

Vimeo
- Vimeo was the platform I used to
display my final version of my music video. Even though Vimeo is a French
platform for movies, after researching for other platforms, this was the only
one that was easily accessible to upload my video with no issues or hassle.



Audacity
– This was the software used to convert my explicit version of the song into a
clean version that could be used in the music video. Other audio softwares were
too hard to understand how to use, and this software was widely known and gave
me the opportunity to look for YouTube tutorials to achieve the sound I wanted.
I tried different methods of making a radio edit version of the song; I used
the reverse technique, and replacing the explicit language with sounds. However
after trial and error, I felt that these techniques didn’t aid me at all, as I
just caused a distraction from my music video. Then I found a way to just mute
the vocals at the points where explicit language was used without losing the
instrumental sound. This took me a while but at the end it was worth it, as it
gave me the sound I wanted, and it suited what I wanted to portray in my music
video.