a2 media evaluation question
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'How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?'TRANSCRIPT
During school hours I would use the
computers provided to research
everything that was to know about my
chosen genre and what conventions
would I need to include to make my
video look professional.
At certain stages of my
research I used my
phone to take photos of
certain objects or people
that was relevant to my
blogging. E.g. Digipaks
Google was very helpful in the research stages of my coursework, as
whenever I needed to find out some information about my chosen genre or
even smaller aspect like what to call my album or single it was easier
enough to search common names for that genre.
Wikipedia was also very helpful in parts of the research
that in which I need in-depth information about artists
and record labels. Instead of having to search many
different categories on Google Wikipedia made it simple
by having all the information on one page.
Watch Later
Watch History
Playlist The video site YouTube has been very useful
in my media studies, not just in the research
process but also my evaluation process as I
uploaded my own video onto YouTube to get
a volunteered target audience feedback.
I also used the site a lot when researching
music videos of the same genre to
understand what conventions needed to be
use and how I needed to present my video
I used word for a lot of my planning as it
was simple enough to wright down exactly
what I wanted to plan for all three of my
products. It was a great way to finalise all
my ideas to make sure that they was
detailed and had reasons for them.
I used Da Font.com for my ancillary tasks, the site helped me to chose a
font that was suitable for my genre by providing me with a wide range. I
then used these for my magazine advertisement and also the name for
my artist, which I would use a consistent font throughout the two
products.
Even though paint is one of your every day tools
when it comes to working on computers, it was
remarkable how useful the tool came. Nearly
every lesson when I was in my planning and
construction stage, even my evaluation stage I
would use paint to save inspirational images, or
even to just crop an image to be get exactly
what I wanted.
Soundcloud and Vimeo were two sites
used for a similar purpose, when it came
to uploaded a soundtrack onto my
website I had to look through Soundcloud
as the site was linked to Wix . However, I
looked over the two sites many times to
get a wide interest into the music
community.
Photoshop was used for my construction
of my magazine advert.
This program made my product easy to
make, due to using the software in my
previous year of my media studies.
Using Photoshop made my construction
simplistic as familiar tools meant I knew
which effects would make my
interpretation effective.
Premiere Pro CS6 was a program
that I had not come across before,
this made the start of my construction
for my video complex, however after
research into the software I began to
understand the effects which would
help me to form a music video which
would give me positive feedback from
my target audience.
I used Wix website maker to
help produce a website of a
professional quality.
This website was very simple to
use as it was self explanatory, I
believe using this software in
particular due to those aspects
,helped me to achieve positive
feedback.
The video camera I used
was simple to use as it
was not a complex
camera, the quality of the
picture was content
however the sound was
not as of a high quality.
For my evaluation which dealt with audience feedback I gave out
questionnaires for a group of people to fill in once they had seen my
music video. I then interviewed a few of the volunteered group to
question them on all three of my products. Using premiere pro cs3 I
have put all of the footage together, combined with screen shots from
feedback I had received on social networking sites. Merging all these
different types of media together will hopefully enhance the evaluation
of the feedback I have been given.
SlideShare was used a few times in my process,
it was a useful tool in my evaluation stage as the
tool made it easy and fast to present a
PowerPoint in an accessible manor.