Tom Bates - Evaluation Activity 4

 How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

We used Macs to help us edit our music video, on the Mac; we used the program Final Cut express, this was quite helpful, because we could trim, splice and transit clips in order. Editing on Final Cut express was quite easy at times because all the tools that you need are laid out on a pallet for you to use. Although the tools are on the side bar, if you wanted to include any effects, it was occasionally hard to find the correct transitions/ effect necessary to complete the task.

We used a Mini DV camera to capture our film; they were very easy to operate. Although these were not HD cameras, the quality of our film was still very good in my opinion. We also used a tripod to help keep all the shots steady. The panning arm was quite nice to use, as you could acquire the correct angle and pace of the pan.Using the extention arm, we adjusted the height of our shots, this worked for when I needed to shoot a high angle shot over the head of Matt. 

Final Cut Express

We also used websites like Youtube, Blogger and FotoFlexer. We initialy got   the necessary clips and music video inspirations from Youtube. We captured our information and blog work on Blogger. We also tried to create different types of font styles on FotoFlexer.