Evaluation Activity 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planing and evaluation stages? 

Throughout our project we used many different media technologies such as;

Blogger- Blogger is used to show the progression of our work, showing what we have done throughout our research and planning and keeping up to date with the theory side to our music video. I also used blogger last year but this year i was a lot more confident and was willing to try new things to try and create a better side to my theory. Blogger is an online way of writing everything down, a way to show everyone what you have to say about your work, how it was created and how my initial ideas came to life. It is also a way of keeping track on my work and filming schedules also helping me though my ancillary task, showing all ideas for our album cover and magazine advert.

Camera and tripod- This year we used exactly the same video technology as we did the year before, this year gave me a lot more confidence with using the video technology, i was able to create better angles and different shot types and distances. I was also able to show how i could capture raw and iconic footage that we wanted our audience to see, we wanted to hit their emotions, we want them to feel how tense and strong the video is. This is all done by the way we use the camera and editing, showing how we can use lighting to effect a certain scene.

You Tube- I used You Tube to find artists within my genre to help me find inspiration, i searched for videos that had created a video similar to my ideas, to help me though the planning and editing of my video. This is a great way of seeing what video where successful and which ones were not, helping me decide what ideas were good to use and showing me the ones not to use. Using such successful artists like, Taylor Swift and Kelly Clarkson, i had a brilliant range of videos and ideas that i could interpret into my own. Also i used a You Tube account to upload my animatic story board, this enabled me to upload my video to blogger using the URL given.

Final Cut Express- This is the programme used to create and edit our music video, Final Cut Express gives you the chance to use different software to add effects, transitions and use colour in a way to which it suits you best. This programme to begin with was very difficult to get used to, but after mounts of using it, it becomes a lot easier and you pick up a lot along the way.

Itunes- I used Itunes to import the song onto Final Cut Express for the music video, also like with YouTube i used Itunes to search for the an unsigned artist, searching through a lot of song and eventually deciding on Rachel Hawker 'Just A Taste'.

Timeglider- I used this to create a time line for my ' history of the music video's' this did take a while to grasp but when i did it gave me a good and fun way of showing the facts without it being boring, using different fonts, colours and also being able to have pictures.

The Mac- The mac computer enabled me to find the software such as Final Cut Express, Photoshop, Imovie and Iphoto, all of the software that helped me create and edit the music video and helped me though my research and planning stage.

Photoshop- This programme was were we created all of the pictures for our ancillary project. Photoshop was very interesting to use and quite difficult and temperamental, we did struggle quite a bit to get the right effects that we wanted but with persistence's we eventually got there, using lots of different colours and effects to fit with our music video genre.

Imovie- Imovie was used quite a lot during our research and planning stage, this is where we downloaded footage to put onto our blogs, for example our CD Digipack research and also our storyboard animatics.

Facebook- We used Facebook of a way of comunactaing with each other outside of the school hours, we also put our survey on there to get answerer's from our family and friends. We also posted many of our photos for our ancillary project here, so we could work on it from home. Facebook was the fastest way of communicating and getting work uploaded to work on.

SurveyMonkey.com- This is where we created our survey to find out what our target audience wanted to see in a music video. This helped us greatly because we found out what they would like and what they wouldn't, this meant we were able to create a video that our target audience would have wanted to watch. we set many different questions to try and get a response that would help our video be a greater success. 

Microsoft Office Word- This was where we were able to play around with texts for our ancillary project, we were able to fine the font that fit best with our genre, also finding the colours we wanted the texts to be in and the font size is also important, so we were able to fine the right size for us. 

Powerpoint- This was a way of presenting our initial ideas to our peers, to show them what we had planed from the very beginning. This is a very effective way of getting your point across and getting peoples attention, this was used mainly in our research and planning section. 

Paint- This was used to edit our images and was a quick and easy way of editing our 9 still frame images.

Safari and Mozillia Firefox- These Two programmes they way we found out all of our information by surfing the web on the Mac and a normal computer, this was really helpful for our research and planning helping us find different artist within our genre and researching into record labels.