Evaluation

How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?
We used establishing shots around Manchester for example at the beginning this was done to set the scene, location and atmosphere.
The equipment we used when filming was a Camera and Tripod.
On the new Apple Computer we used a programme called Final Cut Pro, we used the blur tool throughout the video, the colour theme we used for our video and CD cover and Magazine were orange and black theme throughout. This was to make it look more professional then using random colours at any times.
In the editing section one type of edit is called Cross dissolve; this was used quite a lot of times throughout the video as it’s a very slow pace video and it went along well and made it continuous throughout the video.
We also linked the shots to the music lyrics, for example Maria sings the lyrics throughout the video and we have the scenes matching the music lyrics.
We used Photoshop to create the CD cover and to create the magazine advert. Before creating the CD cover we researched into women singers such as Brittany Spears herself, Rihanna and Mariah Carey and so on, we found that in most of the CD covers, the Singer herself is placed at the front of the CD Cover with her name on it, also we chose the shot very carefully which we wanted to use as the CD cover as it looked a very professional clean shot
Another type of technology we used was a Projector, when she is remerging her past memories by looking at a home video they created. This was a very unique idea that we had chosen as not a lot of people would have come across this idea before.
We kept changing the contrast throughout the video, this was done so it looks more sharper, there were many other options we could choose from such as adding a noise effect, but this would have made it looked to amateurish. Most of the memories there are in the video of them both together, makes it more emotional in the video. Each shot we looked at carefully and changed bits around that needed changing to fit in perfectly with the whole of the video.
We have nearly edited each second of the timeline, this was to go with the slow pace and rhythm. For example we got different types of shots and angles, each clip represents the way she is thinking and feeling.