HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?

RESEARCH AND PLANNINGDuring the research and planning stages I used technologies such as the internet, Prezi, Blogger, Phone, YouTube and more.

Blogger:Throughout the whole process I have used Blogger to blog my work. It has been where all my research has been put in one place.

Prezi:I have used Prezi a lot throughout

the research and planning stages to present different types of work such

as: music video conventions, student video analysis and mise-en-scene for our music video. Prezi is a great way

to present work in a creative way. Also used for research into our

ancillary texts.

Slideshare:

I used Slideshare when I had done work on a Word document or Powerpoint so I could upload it onto my blog, this was useful so I could use different ways of presentation.

I found all these technologies easy to use as I used them a lot last year also

RESEARCH AND PLANNINGYouTube:

I used YouTube quite a lot to begin with to research what song we wanted to do as a group. I then used it more to research conventions and generic conventions of music videos. This was fairly easy to do as I am aware how to use it and there is a lot of music videos readily available. As a group, we used YouTube to upload our target audience interviews, focus groups and auditions to put onto our blogs. I used YouTube for audience research, how many views videos got in he Ska genre and also comments they got.

Google:I used Google as my main search engine to find images, song lyrics and general information such as different job roles. I find Google very easy to use as I have done for a long time.

RESEARCH AND PLANNINGFacebook:I used Facebook as a way of communication for my target audience member profiles. We used Facebook as a group to have group conversations with members of our cast to sort out date and times for filming. This was very easy as all of our cast use Facebook, this was the easiest way to talk as a group

BBC Social Class Test:Once we had found our target

audience, I did a social class test on the BBC website so we

could get to know our audience better. This was fairly easy to

use as it is like a questionnaire.

Cameras/Phones:I used a camera or my phone to take pictures of the locations for filming, and also to take pictures of the story board once we had finished it so it could be uploaded onto a computer and used to put into Prezi. Our phones were also used to contact people.

RESEARCH AND PLANNINGMicrosoft Word:I used Microsoft Word to make the shot lists and shooting schedules, this was the easiest way to do this for the layouts. We also used Word to compose our questionnaires. Computers:

During the research and planning stage, to be able to use all this different websites, software etc. we needed computers. Computers are the main hardware that I used in this stage. Sony Vegas:

We used the editing software Sony Vegas to add text to our focus groups/interviews and to edit our audition. This was fairly easy to do as we learnt how to do the basics last year.

CONSTRUCTIONHD cameras:For our music video we used the HD cameras to film and take pictures when out filming. These were fairly simple to use as we are used to the cameras and how to operate them because using them last year.

Smoke machine and lighting:In the band scenes, we placed a flood lamp on the floor to make the light bounce of the walls in interesting angles. We also used a smoke machine so you could see the surrounding building site so much.

YouTube to MP3 converter:To get our song onto the computer we used a website which converts YouTube videos to MP3 files. This was quick and easy to do.

CONSTRUCTIONComputers:We used the computers to upload all our footage and to begin editing what we had filmed.

Sony Vegas:Sony Vegas is the editing

software we used to edit our music video. We were all

comfortable with using Sony Vegas as we used it in our

preliminary task and last year when making the film opening.

We used the software to add in fades, to change the contrast, add effects and speed or slow

down footage. We did all this to make a more interesting and

complex video. Photoshop:Photoshop was used to make our digipak and magazine advert. None of us were familiar with Photoshop so we had to play around a little bit to get used to the different tools and asked peers for help. We started by cropping out all the characters from our originally picture to get the individual characters as their own image. We then rotated them and scaled them to size. We then copied and pasted the whole image to put on the magazine advert.

EVALUATIONDuring the evaluation stages of the coursework I have used programmes that I used in the research and planning stages. Prezi:For evaluation questions 1 and 2 I used Prezi to present my work. I find Prezi very easy to use and make interesting presentations. I started off with a template but then added my own pattern and different frames so it would have enough for what I wanted to achieve.

Blogger:For evaluation question 3 I did a post straight onto Blogger. This

was very easy to do as I just needed to collate information

from previous research and put it in one place. Blogger is also used

to upload all my work.

For this question I have used PowerPoint to have a different way of presentation. I like using PowerPoint because I don’t use it very often.

PowerPoint:

Facebook:For question 3, I put our music video onto Facebook to ask for my friend’s feedback. This was a useful tool to get our video out to a wide range of people.

Snipping tool:I have used the snipping tool a lot to grab screen shots of pictures, previous work etc.