Question 4

These are the hardware/software that we used when creating our music video. In this post i will be discussing what software and hardware we used and how it helped us improve our music video.

Planning stage
During the planning phase we use planning sheets to organise when and where we will meet. Also we created a storyboard and animatic, the storyboard helped us decide how our music video will look and what shots will we use and how long the shots will last. The animatic showed us what our music video would roughly look like when it is completed. The most common hardware we used when working on the planning is a camera and Mac and the software we used is blogger.

Camera
The camera was a very important piece of hardware for our music video as without it we wouldn't be able to film our music video. We did have a few problems with the camera as when we were filming the SD became full half way through filming a shot and we had to leave the filming for another day and we didn't get a warning message so some footage was lost.

Tripod

The tripod was a very handy tool for us when we were filming as when we were filming it was in the beginning of the year so it was very windy. The tripod was very handy as it made each shot still so when we rewatched the footage the shots weren't shaking. The only disadvantage to the tripod is we had to walk long distances in the rain and cold.

Mac

The Mac was very helpful as we used the mac for many things such as blogging and editing our music video. But there were a few problems with the Macs with the software as some of the software such as Photoshop as it was very difficult to find out to use some of the simple tools such zoom as there is no zoom function. But it is very helpful when coming to editing as we use adobe premiere and we were used to using the mac for editing.

iPhone 

We used an iphone to take the pictures for the digipacks and the magazine adaverts. The pictures came out very well. We also used the phone for the song this helped us film as we used the song so the singer knows what to sing.

Adobe premiere 

We used adobe premiere for editing for our music video this was very helpful as we have used adobe premiere for a while and got used to using it, also we have learned how to use most of the tools so editing was easier. Adobe premiere is much easier to use than final cut express.