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

Before constructing our animation video we looked at different styled music videos produced by artists of all genres in the music industry. This information that we found allowed us to analyse the different types of animation we could use, how we could develop our ideas and also how we could make ours look distinctive to what has been previously done.

Once we had looked at official videos of artists who could produce animation on a high budget, we decided to use Youtube to seem more animation videos, but from past students who had attempted to do a similar styled video to us. We was able to use this to help us understand how the little details of the setting made the video look automatically more attractive and how to make the most of the resources we had. To gain a more rounded knowledge in what would be needed from us to create a successful video we looked at feedback they received and what was popular with viewers in what they liked and commented on about the video they had watched. By looking and researching what the group who made the video had written in their sidebar gave us an idea of what they felt about creating animation videos and their tips on making it work. These tips included testing both video and photo animation to see what best suited us and then from there deciding on how fluent we wanted the movements to be or if we wanted to go for slower frames per second, making the shots last longer, but looking more jumpy.

When we had chosen a technique to use for animation and begun taking photos, we needed to upload them into a film and edit the frames per second to make the photos look continuous and film like. To do this we uploaded our videos to a programme on the Apple Macs called iMovie which allowed us to everything we needed. As we were not familiar with iMovie, we looked on Youtube to find tutorials on how to work the basics of the programme.


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We used the internet to research products similar to our digipak and looked onto internet shopping websites to see how the CDs were advertised to attract their target audience. By looking at how they styled their CDs to fit in with their genre of music and audience we was able to gain an idea of what to include in our own CD cover in order to make it look professional and stand out to our targeted listeners.

In order to create our digipack we had to use a number of programmes as they each had different advantages to using them and allowed us to make our work look the best it could. We used Corel Paint Shop Pro X2, Macromedia Fireworks MX and Adobe Photoshop in order to create our finished digipacks.

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