Evaluation question 4

How did you used new media technologies in the construction  and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Through the course of completing our tasks and designing my products I have used a large varied amount of technologies to help me through the process. Having the convenience of all these technologies it has made the process easier and more varied in my approach and conclusion of each task. Most of the technologies I hadn't used before but now I have a firmer understanding about how different technologies work, individually and together.

Some of the technologies I used:

• Digital Camera 
• Apple macs
• Blogger
• YouTube
• Mobile Phone
• iMovie
• Photoshop
• Film Projector
• Slideshare

Digital Camera

the digital camera was essential in most aspects of the tasks we had to complete. We used it for recording our music video, and audience feedback. We decided to use one camera for the recording of our video, to keep a continuity in terms of quality. We did not experience any problems with the camera other than it's battery life being poor, where we found ourselves changing the batteries constantly during a scene. Our progress with the cameras have improved in comparison with last year. We now have a better understanding of how to use a camera 
to promote a message or a representation.

Apple macs

The macs were again, essential in completing our tasks. we used i t to edit our music video on, create my magazine advert  and create my CD cover. We also used it for blogging and researching similar products such as music videos.I have had some experience with the Apple Macs and was fairly familiar with them. the only problem was that they constantly froze and kept crashing during our editing or designing which became frustrating.

Blogger

Blogger was probably one of the most important technologies we've used in this course. We were able to record everything we did through blogs posts. All of our finished products were able to be put on blogger to be displayed too. We've had experience with blogger before as we used it last year so we were familiar with the website. A problem we faced with blogger is that the images wouldn't show until you published a post so we had to memorize what we were analyzing most of the time.

YouTube

YouTube enabled us to research existing products like similar music videos. We were also able to use YouTube to upload our products and audience feedback, because it's easily accessible and easy to embed into blogger and other sources.

Mobile phone

We used our mobile phones in contacting each other when to film, and more importantly, taking location shots and behind the scene stills of our music video which we were easily able to upload to blogger.

iMovie

iMovie was essential, it was the only editing software we had so we had to make full use of it. I have had experience with iMovie from last years production but this year i learnt more features it owns such as effects. We did experience problems with iMovie, in that it kept freezing, quitting the program and overall slow performance so iMovie did get frustrating to work with.

Photoshop

Photoshop was a fun program to use which was very important in the creation of my Digipak and magazine advert. Photoshop has so many features I still learn new ones each time I use it even though having used it in my media lessons for three years. the only issue with Photoshop is that it can get complicated because it has very advanced features and effects.

Film Projector

The film projector was used to show our films in the showcase we held. The film projector enabled us to put a showing of all our videos for an audience. This then enabled us to gain our audience feedback and response. the film projector allowed us to show our music video in front of a wide and larger audience rather than showing them individually.

Slideshare

Before making my evaluation through Slideshare i was completely inexperienced with Slideshare, but it was easy enough to learn. It essentially just embedded a presentation in my blog post. Slideshare enabled me to use more technologies in my blog and helped me make my evaluation more interesting to read.

BH