I used plenty of different programs on Windows and Mac computers.
The first technology that
has been used is this blog (Blogger.com) as it has kept track of how my coursework has
progressed over the months.
For my music video I used Windows Movie Maker. The reason I picked to use this was because I have had earlier experiences with it and have learnt to use it well.
Plus I thought that it had the right type of visual effects in the program in order to create the outcome I wanted.I could easily use the effects Iwanted such as fades to black to cut to scenes but also fades to white to create a memory scene.
On my CD cover and advert I also used a special website that created the sort of font I waslooking for. I used a site called mylivesignature.com which gave me a number of different fonts to use and all I had to do was type in what I wanted to write so it matched the original Bon Iver signature that I had got from the Bon Iver website. As an example here are the two signitures I used. The first was the original from the website and the second was the one I made on mylivesignature.
I think that for the CD cover it gave it a much more personal touch with a signiture. I also thought that they matched quite nicely as it did take quite a while to find the right match to the first signature. The original signature was taken from Wikipedia.
The program I used to edit and create my CD cover and CD advert was called Pixelmator which was done on the Apple Mac. This was a very nice program to use. After about half an hour of playing around and trying to work out what things did, I was able to put together my CD cover and CD advert. It was a lot like a program I used last year in my AS media coursework called Photoshop but I didn't enjoy using it as much as Pixelmator as the image manipulation was so much easier.(Image from 917wy.com)
The next technology I used was Youtube. This was a great help in linking videos from there to my blog to show what I used as my examples but also to show my finished product. Because of how many videos it has on Youtube, I was able to research plenty of music video and songs in order to pick the right one for me to use. I was also easily able to upload my finished video onto youtube in a matter of minutes so it could be shown straight after to an audience forfeedback.
The camera I used to film was a Cannon Powershot A3150 digital camera. This is a very small digital camera and found it very good. I wanted to use a small camera because it made it easier to carry all the other props I had with me such as the guitar. If I had a bigger camera this would have been impossible. And the video quality was not at all bad either. I liked the fact that I could film a scene and then I could change the setting and take photos of the surrounding area for my blog or for my CD cover. (Image from ImageShack.us)
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