NW - Evaluation - Use of ICT

-The use of we media aided a lot in the production of our music video, the biggest area where it helped was when we were coming up with the shots that we wanted to recreate. For example I spent a lot of time on youtube which is where I found most of my ideas for the shots that we took.

-The blog allowed us to work collaboratively with ease as we could post our ideas on there are we could comment and brain storm ideas together without having to meet up. However, I personally found it difficult to post my ideas up there as I find it much easier to verbally communicate my ideas and have a discussion face to face to evolve my ideas and incorporate others into them.

-The animatic we created was useful as we had already shot some of our footage before we had finished our animatic which meant that we could see what we needed to shoot and if some of our shots would work or if they needed to be changed to fit with the clips we already had.

-In order to create my print text i used photoshop elements as it easily allowed for the manipulation of my images. I used the stamp tool in order to get the effect that I wanted on the images as I wanted them to be black and white but just desaturating the images wasnt quite enough and this gave me that added extra level of intrigue in the overall advert.

-For the editing of the video we used premiere elemtents 8 this allowed us to edit in HD. The three main effects i used in the video where the filters i made to go over the different pieces of the video, the dissolves linking the overlayed footage to the performance, and some of the clips have been flipped. the filters that I used were presets that i set up using the RGB and opacity this allowed me to simply drag and drop the filters onto the appropriate parts of the video, making for easy editing.

-The use of HD cameras in the shooting of this video allowed us to capture the shots into the PC much quicker then with the DV cameras. The one issue that arose was a human error that occured while shooting the drama studio shots with the band as Owen shot everything between the shots he was suppose to do. So when he wanted to record he stopped recording and vica versa. However this was not too much of an issue as I had already shots some of the performance in the drama studio so these are the ones that feature in our video.

-I was very comfortable with the editing as this is definitely one of my strengths when it comes to media as I am able to figure out how to do things quite easily and anything I needed help with our technician was always on hand to help. The only issue that arose was the software would not allow us to was the footage back without before rendering which did add a lot of time to the editing process, but this was not a major issue.

-I used a number of different forms of IT to communicate as I used the blog to communicate ideas to Owen as this allowed us to put ideas up where they are easily accesible and are automatically saved. Furthermore I have used PowerPoint to communicate in the pitch that we prepared at the begninning of the project, this was useful as it allows for easily presentable presentations.