Research & Planning

When planning our Music video we used Microsoft Word in numerous different ways:

Creating a timeline template – we created a table on word in which we wrote in and planned the timeline for our music video along with the lyrics and verses of the song.

Check lists – we created numerous check lists so that we had all the equipment we needed for shoot days.

Microsoft Word

We used the website ‘Bitstrips.com’ to create comic book strips of a typical target audience member for our band ‘Loyal Blood’

This website was quick and easy to use and enable us to make our own character in the shape of a target audience member that we had created.

‘Bitstrip’

We used YouTube to look into and research different videos – we did this primarily for inspiration on what our video would include.

We also used this website to look for a song that we would be interested in using for our video.

Additionally I used this site when looking for tutorials on how to create certain effects using Adobe After Effects.

YouTube

We used Final Cut Express during our planning stages to practice editing video footage together and develop techniques that we wanted to use in our own video.

We also used this to see what different effects would look like on footage.

Final Cut Express

We used Adobe After Effects to try out and test different effects that we wanted to use within our video.

With some test footage I practiced editing a ‘frozen water’ effect, following a tutorial I found on YouTube.

After testing out the effect we decided to use it in our final video.

Adobe After Effects

Once we had the idea for our music video we used Facebook to plan when we would shoot our video and make arrangements with our actors etc.

To do this we set up a group chat on Facebook so that we could keep in touch with our actors all in one place. This was very helpful as we were able to communicate with everyone and let them know what was going on with the project, like when the recording would be and what costumes to where.

Facebook

When developing ideas for our website and digipak myself and Aidan sent images and messages to one another and discuss different ideas that we had.

This allowed us to stay in communication with each other about our developing and changing ideas while outside of college.

iMessage