Evaluation Qu3: How Did You Use Media Technologies In The Construction And Research, Planning and Evaluation Stages?

Using Media technology for the construction and researching, planning and the evaluation stages is a must! this is because it allows me to find out more information that helps me to gain knowledge for my research around my ancillary product, and my music video, it also allows me to show my work.

Blogger is adaptable and is the main source for this coursework as, all pieces of work is uploaded onto the blog enable for us to illustrate and show what we are learning and have been taught. It is very convenient as it allows me to look back through my blog posts and see what my plan was in the beginning of when we started to film and edited. Therefore enabling us to be able to get on with the filming a lot faster and fluently because we have the plan there to help us and remind us of what we are supposed to be doing.

Blogger is very versatile as it can be accessed from ANYWHERE on a mobile phone on the internet at home, college, ps3. This is convenient as it allows me to be able to be able to keep in touch with my work from home also view teachers lessons as they tend to briefly type up on the moodle, prezzie.

In addition This allows me to view feed back from other teachers, students which is an advantage to me as i take the positive criticism and improve my post.

Blogger allows me to upload pictures, music videos, presentations, screengrabs.

Below i have used Voila to demonstrate how i use blogger.

Youtube played a huge contributions to my research when looking up my artist genre and other artist that are apart of the same genre. As my artists is a raper and a singer it was good for me to use youtube as i was ablkt to see rap/singer artists from all over the world and be inspired by their music video. I love the way that YouTube have Suggested videos on the right hand of the page. This asset of the website is extremely great as it allows me to look at other artist that i may not have even heard of before and are from the same genre which makes my research a lot easier and is very helpful. below i have a video tutorial of me talking about how I use YouTube and a screen shot of YouTube.

Prezi was a good technology when presenting my work as a presentation. Although i could have used Powerpoint i felt that Prezi had more technology that was nice to look at and i could be as creative as i felt. Prezi allowed me to creat unique presentation that had different themes, colours. What really impresses me about Prezi is the fact that it had so many things i could add to it for example Path. This allows me to arrange my text, images, video in the format i want it to be in. It also helps the viewers to not get lost on the page as it can sometimes be very hard to control therefero it takes the viewers on a smooth journey. 

When research our artist and our record label and the genre of our music it was essential that we had background history of all of this therefore Wikipedia  was a website i used. This is because then it allowed me personally to feel connected with the artist and i felt that without the connection or knowing what type of genre your artist is doing it doesn't make a successful video. I felt that i had to educate myself on the background of the genre type and this allowed me then to put this into practice and use my knowledge to create a good music video. Below is a video on how i use this.



Final Cut pro was a major technology that i used for my music video. This is because i used this all my my film editing. This allowed us to create effects and turn our music video into slow motion. It allowed us to cut to the beat and lay the tracks down and view our work whilst editing it just like a professional. I really got the hang of using this as i felt i have become more confident and understand the tools a lot more. There are loads of tools that can be used and effects. The tools that i mainly used was the razor tool. Below are screen shots of the tools that i used when using final cut pro.

Photoshop played a big part in my work when i was doing my ancillary product. i was able to do so many things i would of not of been able to do without it. As i looked at other digipaks i saw how the artists skin was flawless and i wanted that same affect on my artist. Therefore i used the blur tools and changes that. I used heeling patch tool to correct any imperfections on her skin to make her skin look smooth and not rough. Overall Photoshop allowed me to get that 'Professional' look that i was going for. She looked healthy and glamorous which was what i was aiming for.

When making our storyboard animation music video we used the digital camera to show what we were aiming to achieve with our music video, and what we wanted our video to come out like, or at least similar as we did make slight adjustments. Below is our animation.