Technology used

Obviously as my music video is going to be sent off digitally and filmed using a high resolution camera I would need a digital program to be able to stich all these images together. For this, I used iMovie which can be found on an Apple iMac. The program is simple enough to use, and as I have had previous experience with it I can easily navigate around it using all the features possible to add idfferent effects ot my images. Firstly I knew I had to import my images and put then into an order, so to do this I imported them into iPhoto and then into iMovie from this. In doing this I knew I had a backup so if anything went wrong with loss of images they would be backed up on my personal computer and on the Mac. After many hours of work on the Mac, stringing together my images and putting them into the correct order, I had to then make small changes to things like the timing and framing. The fastest flicker of an image that was possible on this particular program was 0.04 of a second, which was just fast enough to what I both needed and expected. Most of my images have been flashed for this amount of time, apart from a select few where I needed to slow them down so the audience would be able to see the effect for a prolonged period of time. This was the main digital program I used, alongside an image manipulation program named Photoshop CS3. As I also study photography I have had an extensive experience of using this and so decided to put it to use for a small series of images. The small clip I used this for was my effect of speeding up time, making it seem as if the seasons were changing. How I did this was relatively simple but I tried my best to execute it successfully. I firstly set up my camera, being careful to place it on a tripod and framing it up, and not moving it after I had made this decision. I composed my frame with a clear shot out of a window and no other clutter that could distract the viewer. I then looked through older images I had taken, something which had a tree in it, and obviously being outside. I found a suitable image and then made a template of that so for every frame my little car moved I would replace the exisiting outside view with this. And every frame I moved along I would change the overall colour of this image, adding more reds and browns to it from the originally green image. I would also change the colours of the leaves, using a tool in the program called 'Paintbrush', which you can make settings to, scattering it to different shapes, which is what I did to create the illusion that the colours of the leaves were changing. Having access to be able to do this has really helped my music video as it has sparked ideas that can help to make my video more unique and different. Finally I used my dslr camera as I knew this would bring the highest quality imagery possible to include. I also realised that this type of image quality does use a lot of memory in megabytes and so all I ever did was transport it straight to the iMac via an external hard drive. I knew the desktop would be able to handle it better so that is why I decided to use it.