Equipment & Technology used

To record:
- FujiFilm FinePix A400 Digital Camera
  - 4 Megapixel. 3x optical zoom lens.
    - I used the Finepix A400 to record the footage for the video and also the images for the ancillary products. As the camera is a simple model, the video record mode is unable to capture sound alongside the video, and so made it easier seeing as though it'd save me time and effort gating and removing excess noise once I entered the editing phase. For the images, the quality was great, I didn't need to do anything with them at the stage of capturing the pictures, I knew I was going to edit them pretty heavily for the finished versions. So everything took off the camera became the bare bone structure of my work.

To edit footage:
- Windows Movie Maker
  - Having used this program in the past, I knew it well and was comfortable with it's features and limits. The original footage and the audio track were imported and it became a case of fitting the shots in order to the timeline and getting them synchronized with the song so that both ran fluently and in unison. I added a 'Smudge stick' effect to the video, this allowed me to relate the video to the CD's artwork. Each clip also had a fade in and out from and to black, this gave the video more smoothness through the transitions of each frame instead of jump cutting to every separate clip.

To edit imagery:
- Macromedia Fireworks 8
  - Again, like Windows Movie Maker, having used this program a great deal in the past, I was at home using Fireworks rather than having to adapt to Adobe Photoshop or other image editing software. All the original images were edited heavily through changing the hue/saturation, brightness/contrast and I too manually edited the curves and leveling. Zoom effects were also added to most of the images to help give me the abstract theme I longed to achieve. To further edit the pictures used and to create alternate versions of my products I saved each file twice, one as a .PNG file, that served as the template for all further workings, and the other as a .JPEG file, in it's highest quality as I could possibly set.

Computers used:
- Dell Optiplex 980
- Dell Inspiron Mini