For construction we used the NVS5 500 mini DV camera that had a the ability to manipulate white balance and and depth of field so that we could experiment with what we wanted to include in our music video. For post production we use the Imac and the software on it was adobe premiere pro cs3 which enabled us to construct our footage in a linear order as well as manipulate the speed of a certain scene either to increase or decrease the speed so we could experiment to what we wanted. We also used a Nikon coolpix L12 camera to get possible location shots for our music video. We also used the green screen in the News room part of the music video and this enabled us to create our own interpretation of a newsroom. We used Photo shop to do this and we could manipulate the shape of the image and we made it looked curved and obscure so that it made the audience focus on the news reporter.
For research we used Youtube to research other music videos and see other conventions that is the norm for music videos and we could make constructive decisions whether to break away from these forms and conventions from the research we got from Youtube. We also used blogger to the best of our abilities and we used it to show the research that we found and used it as a form of medium to do this, it enabled us to put all our information that we found out in easy to read blogs. We also used google to find as many different posters and album covers as we could relating to the type of genre of music we had chosen.
I also used myspace to get hold of the band and ask them if we could use their song for our music video.
For our planning we used our blog to set out an itinerary to show us what wee needed doing and when. we also used Google maps to help us find other possible locations and we also could use street veiw on google to see what good places we could do band shots or other narrative shots. We used our mobile phones to get in contact with each other to set up filming dates and orginising where to film, we also used facebook for the same communication reason.
For the evaluation of our music video we created a questionnaire on Word which we then gave out to about 10 people to fill in so we could record their veiws at the screening of our music video. To show our music video we used a projector in the media studies room and we got everyone their by also making a poster on word to let everyone know were its going to be shown and what time its going to be shown.
We were going to use our give away poster as the invitation poster but we wanted it to be a surprise for the fans when they bought the Digi pak disc.
