Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Q4) How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?


At the research stage the main media technologies that I used where:


Screen Grabs:
Screen grabbing is a very effective and yet easy way to get a picture which you can elaborate on or use as a piece of evidence within your blog.
Blogger:
This was a very good way of using media technology as it is very accessable whilst using the internet which means I could work almost anywhere. Blogger interface also allows you to upload videos, images and sound clips which gives a plus side to my coursework as it will be more interactive
Youtube:
Youtube was used in various ways to help me find out information on my genre and audience opinions, Also, it gave me the chance to create and post video's about answers to questions; youtube being as reknown as it is, it was nice and effective to look at.
Google Docs:
This was used to form a questionnaire in a quick and simple way as result could be put into charts and graphs automatically. This also gave me the ability to email the questionnaire around without having to contact the people again for their answers.

At the Planning stage the main media technologies I used were:
Animatic (iMovie):
The animatic was made using iMovie and it was basically a slide show of our storyboard in time with the song. This was good because I could manipulate the length of time each picture lasted for making it a very good visual representation of how the official music video would look. This was an effective way of my group seeing if the chosen shots were good or bad and helped us decide what to leave in and take out. Also, it was a good way of showing my understanding of how to use iMovie and how to upload various images, thus making the courseowork better.
Still Camera:
The still camera was used to go out and take pictures of various potential locations of the video shoot. At the Construction stage the main media technologies I used were:
Da font:
Da font is very effective for trying to master the correct font for your chose genre. There are plenty to choose from and sometimes the unauthadox ne can be the best to choose.
Photoshop:
Photoshop was used to enhance images and also give a bit more flavour and umph
Tripods:
Tripods are effective to use whilst filming as it keeps the camera perfectly still.
Fig Rig:
This allowed us to use video camera's in an unorthodox way where shots could be rotated and held without getting the effect of a hand shaking.
Final Cut:
This was used to edit the music video at a professional, intricate and detailed standard in order to get the best results when editing was completed. It allowed this as there were many unique transitions and effects exclusive to final cut.

At the Evaluation stage the main media technologies I used were:
Twitter:
This was used to gather feedback from peers and others. It gave me a chance to post my video on a Social networking site and allow the opinions and views of others to be shared.







Photoshop

























Final Cut Express









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