Evaluation Question 4
ryanjameslomas
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Evaluation question 4
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
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Technologies used
Throughout my coursework, the use of media technologies is prominent as the whole course is based around digital technology. I used technology from cameras, editing software to even the smallest technology like USB sticks. All this technology helped me to create the best possible music video.
Even whist conducting the research for our song we used YouTube to research songs of the same genre, we did this on a computer. This is a clear example of the used of digital technology. We used things such as Facebook and Instagram to make the Bands social media pages so we could connect with the audience.
PHones and Laptops
In the digital age that we live in, phones and laptops are all around us. Nowadays, peoples lives revolve around their phones and their laptops. We used our phones to research places for us to film and even what the weather was like that day!
We even used our phones to make a shooting schedule and to communicate with one another about our music video. We even used our phones to take pictures for our website and digipak as the camera quality on IPhones today is so good there was no need for a camera.
The laptops and computers that we used have all the digital technology that we have used to make our video, for example, Adobe Premiere Pro. We used this to make our video as it is the best editing software for our music video. We also used to computers to access our social media. The computer were the base for our whole coursework because the whole course revolves around the computers.
technOlogy used for research
Int in
In terms of using technology for research we used Google Chrome and YouTube to look up the conventions of real media products and bands. We typed 'Dream pop' into both of these sites and looked at artists and songs that were similar to ours. From YouTube we were able to look at other artists video's from this we determined that all of the videos showed a journey, they showed shots of places or they showed more images of just pure colour.
We used what we had found and decided to incorporate the two ideas into our video. Without YouTube we would never have been able to find this out.
From Google Chrome we could see how the bands similar to ours structured their websites and their digipaks. We found that all of the digipaks used bizarre pictures that were quirky and out there, we also found that they used a wide range of websites and there wasn't much of a convention for the website. From this we took the digipak conventions and developed it further making it our own. We also was free to do whatever we wanted which was a good thing to know which we wouldn't have known without Google chrome.
We also used Adobe Premiere to practice our editing skills, using clips from YouTube we got to know the software so we knew it well enough for when we done our video. We also knew how to make the shots link to our genre.
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Planning
We used our phones to look up locations, directions and the weather for when we was planning to go filming so we could tell if it was supposed to be nice weather and how to get to the places. We wouldn't have been able to do this without our phones.
Visme
we used Visme to show our props,editing ,make up,hair an locations.this helped us as it was a power point like product where we could efficiently show how we wanted to look , what we wanted to shoot and how we wanted to edit, using pictures and links. Without Visme we would have struggled to do this.
We used Popplet to plan our digipak ideas and , we liked this layout because we could easily see in a mind map format was we was going to do without having to start again due to mistakes like you do with a hand written one.
Using Popplet we could neatly present our work and show our plans.
Construction
We used a Sony Handy cam to film all of our video and audience feedback. We used this camera because it was the best quality camera we had available. Without this we would have barely had any video footage.
We used a Go Pro for the underwater shots as it has a waterproof case and the quality was good on it. From using this we could show a range of shots and this would help us to develop our genre.
We used a Selfie Stick so we had a more full on range of shots of us having fun, this enabled us to largely show us with groups of friends in our video and more concept shots of us in the video from a front facing camera point of view. We liked this idea as it was fun and quirky and went with our genre.
in terms of editing, we used Adobe Premiere to edit all of our work we used this because we could easily edit our video together with the song and put all the effects on it which help us link it to the genre this helped us to make the best possible video we could make. We used this when practicing our editing skills so that we were familiar with the software and learnt how to do the effects.
Technology in the evaluation stages
IN the evaluation questions we used all sorts of soft ware we used Adobe Premiere to show visually in a YouTube video how we used certain things to link to the genre and how our audience felt we had linked the genre.
We also used Prezi and Emaze to show our evaluations in a presentation format, so it looked neat yet had all the information we needed on there.
