How did you use media new

media technologies in the

construction, research and

planning, and evaluation

stages

By Coral Prout

Hardware In this Slide show I am going to list all the hardware‟s that I have used to create my music video.

Hardware refers to objects that you can actually touch e.g. disks, disk drives, display screens, keyboards, printers, boards, and chips. In contrast, software is untouchable. Software exists as ideas, concepts, and symbols, but it has no substance.

Computer hardware refers to the physical parts of a computer and related devices. Internal hardware devices include motherboards, hard drives, and RAM. External hardware devices include monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, and scanners.

The hardware that we used in order to

create our music video are:

- IMac Apple- 2 ghz Intel core duo

processor (keyboard and mouse)

- Video camera (tripod)

- Camera

- X serve- networked drive

- Scanner Epson v300

- IPhone 5

All of the hardware listed above will

be described and explained in a

separate slide explaining how I used it

and what the hardware is and looks

like.

IMac Apple- 2 ghz Intel core 2

duo processor The iMac "Core 2 Duo" 2.0 20-Inch Aluminum

(Mid-2009/Education Only) features a 2.0 GHz

Intel "Core 2 Duo" processor, with two

independent processor "cores" on a single

silicon chip, a 3 MB shared level 2 cache, a

1066 MHz system bus, 8 GB of RAM (1066

MHz DDR3 SDRAM), a 160 GB (7200 RPM)

hard drive, a vertically-mounted slot-loading

DVD±R DL "SuperDrive", NVIDIA GeForce

9400M graphics with 128 MB of memory shared

with the system, a built-in insight video camera,

and built-in stereo speakers underneath the 20"

glossy TFT Active Matrix LCD (1680x1050

native) display.Connectivity includes four

USB 2.0 ports, a Firewire "800" port, built-in

AirPort Extreme, and Gigabit Ethernet, as well

as a Mini Display Port, which supports an

external display in "extended desktop" mode.

We used the IMac to create and design ideas for

our music video. We used this through; the

internet (social media, evaluations of work,

YouTube, wordpress), Photoshop final cut,

PowerPoint, Microsoft word.

With this computer there is also a mouse and a

keyboard that is singly connected to the computer.

Video CameraThe camera we used was a canon legria hf r406. This is a HD camera

that is secure Digital and can record at a medium quality. We used this to

record all the footage for our music video and used another camera for

our digipak photo‟s.

This camera also had a 4 GB, class 10 SD card and used a SD card

reader with a USB integral to download all footage recorded.

To make all camera movements smooth and persistent I also used a

“Amazon basics” tripod.

Nikon D300 12.3 megapixel DX format CMOS image sensor

Built-in self-cleaning sensor unit- minimises the effect of dust

6fps continuous shooting (8fps with optional MB-D10 battery pack with lithium-ion battery EN-EL4a or 8 AA batteries)

ISO 200-3200: extendable up to ISO 6400 (equivalent) and down to ISO 100 (equivalent)

EXPEED image processing engine with 14-bit A/D conversion and 16-bit image processing for superb tonal gradation

Advanced Scene Recognition System combines the cameras metering and AF sensors for precise exposures

Multi-CAM3500DX 51-point AF system

Quick response with approx 0.13 second power-up and 45 millisecond shutter release time lag

920,000 dot 3-inch VGA LCD monitor with wide, 170- degree viewing angle

Live View with Autofocus lets you compose images using the LCD monitor

Durable, magnesium alloy body

Water and dust resistant

This camera was used for us to take pictures for our digipak. This was used in a professional format where we could manipulate the camera lighting and

decide weather we wanted a shadow on our artists face.

Xserve- network drive on user

accounts and backup.The Xserve can be used for a variety of applications, including file server, web server or even high-performance computing applications using clustering – a dedicated cluster Xserve, the Xserve Cluster Node, without a video card and optical drives are also available.

Our Xserve is controlled by our IT services where all our work is backed up with over 256 GB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM (1.33 GHz) 512 GB of PC2700 DDR SDRAM (DP 1.33 GHz) of memory. This involves user accounts also being backed up

Epson V300 scanner This was used in order to show all our planning for our

music video. This includes our story board and set ups.

This helped with organization of our music video as well

as having a virtual and hard copy.

IPhone 5This has been used for playing the song for the music

video in order for the main performer to get an idea for

timing, lyrics and rhythm.

With the 8mp of camera, we could film the audiences

feedback with a High Definition view and good quality

sound.

Software In this half of the slide show I am going

to list and explain all the software‟s that

we have used to create our music

video. We are also going to create an

on-screen video of us talking step by

step all the software‟s that were

needed.

Software is anything that can be

stored electronically, in contrast to

storage devices which is hardware.

The software we used to

create our music video was:

- final cut pro x v.10.0.9 which

needed a file convertor

- Adobe Photoshop c55

- QuickTime player v7

- Microsoft word and

PowerPoint

- OSX v/0.6.8 Apples

operating system (Safari)

Online software/websites

- Wordpress

- YouTube

- Google

- Slideshare

- Prezi

- Facebook

Final cut pro X v.10.0.9

Apple.Final cut pro was the main software that we used to create our music video. In final cut pro

you can insert music and footage and make them fit in with each other, adding special

effects that can make the video seem more exciting for the audience. In our music video

we used various effects and transitions including:

- Colour grading, firstly adding a colour balance to adjust the colour and make it more

balanced and natural (not too bright), on the same clip we added a vignette and

customized it to add a white frame to our mirror effect scene.

- Cross dissolve effect- combining scenes to overlap. This helped us keep the narrative

and performance link in together.

- We also used Colour Match where we matched all the clips we made to have the same

lighting and to look similar.

We completed these transitions and effects by keeping the „Inspector‟ open to see exactly

what effects we were applying to our footage.

When we filmed our footage it was saved as a AVI format instead of a MP4, we then had to

use a File converter (Free video converter V.2.30 Leand) to change the format of the

footage to make it correct to the format we needed for final cut. We did this by inserting the

original AVI format into the converter, selected MP4 and pressed „Convert‟, following this

we then re-downloaded it in its new format.

Adobe Photoshop C55Photoshop was used to create our Digipak and our advertisement for the Digipak. Photoshop was a great way to add special effects onto photos taken to make it fit in with the genre we were trying to portray.

Firstly we inserted the images we had taken, we then shaped them to our specification, once we had the correct images we then edited them (saturation turned to low, filter- artistic water colour, as shown on the clip below), finally we added the text that was needed (which was previously downloaded from dafont.com)

Microsoft word and

PowerPointI used Microsoft word as part of my planning stage in my music video. I pasted the lyrics onto the document then analyzed each verse to tie in with the story we were trying to portray. This helped me greatly in the way that I could see exactly if the lyrics went with the story.

I used Microsoft PowerPoint to complete my Software and Hardware question as I could plan out what I was going to talk about in a way that would be clear for the examiner.

OSX v/0.6.8 Apples operating

systemThis was the main source for research and for us to answer any evaluation questions.

This, on a apple computer is known as safari. I used safari for;

- Wordpress.com (blogging)

- YouTube

- Google (search engine)

- Slideshare

- Prezi

- Facebook

- Dafontcom

Wordpress.com WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a

content-management system based on PHP and MySQL,

which runs on a web hosting service.

I used wordpress to analyze music videos, plan my music

video and my Digipak, and answer any questions about

my work.

YouTubeThis was a great research engine that was used to create

my music video. I used YouTube to compare typical indie

songs, songs that talk about heartbreak and love, and the

music videos that our artist typically uses (looking at

forms and conventions, and how artists portray stories).

Google- Search engine Google was used for everything; gaining ideas for the music video,

digipak and poster, researching the artist that we were trying to

portray, researching the main story of this song, finding out any extra

information about music video conventions, theories for music video,

and software's that we have used.

SlideshareI am currently using slideshare to answer questions about

creating my media products. This is very easy to use as

all you do is use a basic windows software “PowerPoint”

and import it into slide share.

Prezi This was also used to help me answer questions. Prezi is

a U.S. software company, producing a cloud-based

presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting

ideas on a virtual canvas. This was very easy to use as

you can create slides in order to evaluate your work.

Facebook.com

This was used for

feedback off our

audience. We asked

friends on

Facebook, and in

person to watch our

music video and

give us

improvements.

Dafont.comThis was great to help us portray text that our music video

artist tries to portray. This font is normally a handwritten

style which was easy to find. This website is simple to use

where you can find a font and install it onto your

computer. We used this font for our digipak and our

poster.