3. Technical support

To broaden our knowledge of the technicl aspects of making a music video, we participated in a workshop to get us familiar with technological machinery such as cameras and photoshop. We first of all went off in our group with a digital camera and took pictures of still objects but used our cinematographical knowledge to make them appear more interesting than they were- for example we thought about framing, camera angles and lighting. This was helpful as we were enabled to see the differences between an average long shot which shows the whole object, to a close/low angle shot which both made the object appear bigger than it was, and obscured information from us as we were unable to see the majority of it.
Here are some pictures of the shots we took:

We then had a lesson where we experimented on photoshop. We took some pictures of eachother in turn and we uploaded them to photoshop. We then experiemented with layering, colour and texture to basicly airbrush the images that we had and to give them a different sense of appeal.
Here are some exapmles of pictures we took:

Here are the photos we prosessed on photoshop:

We also used final cut express to make a trial music video. This was helpful as we were able to practice lip syncing and try out the greenscreen.