1. How did you use new media
technologies in the media
construction and research,
planning and evaluation stages?
Kelsi Varney
2. YouTube
YouTube was the site I used for my research into existing
media. This enabled me to search for any music video I
wanted to analyse, and embed it onto my blog so that I
could put the video and my analysis of the video together.
Research
3. Google images
Before planning my ancillary texts, I researched existing
digipacks and music posters. I used Google images for this
as I knew that it would have images of any poster or
digipack I searched for. It also enabled me to copy the
images and paste them onto my blog with my analysis’ next
to them.
Research
4. Soundcloud / Bandcamp
One of the specifications for our music video was that the
song had to be from an unsigned artist. Soundcloud and
Bandcamp are both online audio distribution platforms used
by unsigned artists to share their music tracks so these were
the first sites we went on after deciding as a group what
genre we wanted our song to be. These sites allow you to
select a genre and then browse only the songs that are of
interest to you. However, after browsing through the
Indie/Rock genre for some time, I suggested we use my
friends band, Over The House, as they had a Bandcamp
account which allowed us to listen to their songs and upload
them to blogger easily via Bandcamp.
Research
5. Twitter
Another reason for choosing Over The House was that
because I knew them I could easily ask for their permission
by sending a direct message via the social networking site
Twitter, this also meant we received a quick response,
allowing us to begin planning very quickly.
Research
6. Prezi
As I ended up doing more research for A2 than I had done
for AS I found I needed some new methods of presenting
my work. Prezi is a cloud based presentation software
which allows you to zoom in and out of the presentation
media, I had never used anything like Prezi before, however
it was relatively easy to get the hang of.
Research
7. Cameras
The cameras this year were new ones so we had no previous
experience with them. However, we found that this was a
positive change as these new cameras picked up lighting
better so proved more useful when taking test shots in the
theatre. However, when filming the dancers in the theatre
the cameras kept going in and out of focus, and as we had
no experience with this technology, we weren’t sure of how
to remedy this. In the end we just made sure to avoid using
any out of focus shots when putting out video together.
Planning
8. Final Cut
One of the most significant changes in technologies used
from AS to A2 was the move from IMovie to Final Cut.
Before production we familiarised ourselves with this
programme and learnt of its new features and how they
might be of use to us in the post production stage.
Planning
9. Corel Draw
We planned and eventually constructed our digipack on
Corel Draw, which is an advanced editing programme. The
main reason for using this is that I had experience creating
digipacks on Corel Draw before so I could just get straight
on with planning out designs, without having to learn all of
it’s features first.
Planning
10. Go animate
Having never used go animate before, it took a short while
to get the hang of it, but it was worth it because it is a
unique yet clear way of presenting information and ideas.
Which was useful to us as we needed to make sure that all
of our evaluation questions were answered differently.
Evaluation
