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1. HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES IN THE
PLANNING AND RESEARCH,
CONSTRUCTION AND
By Maddison Ely

2. RESEARCH AND PLANNING
For the majority of my research I’ve used google and various
presentations and articles I've found online, especially for my history
of music videos presentation as I really hadn’t got any background
knowledge of it. Most of my research into Lana Del Rey was done on
Wikipedia, as there is a lot of information about her defining her
genre and style which I found really important to know before
carrying on. All of my presentations at this stage were done on
PowerPoint which I uploaded onto slide share to make them
accessible on my blog. I also found myself using YouTube a lot to
look at the videos I was talking about in my history presentation and
do research a little bit into style and conventions when I first started
the project.

3. CONSTRUCTION
When making my film I filmed it on my phone which has an 8
megapixel camera so was absolutely fine for getting high quality
footage. I also used my phone for all the photos of Sophie I took
which worked really well in the dark environment. For editing I used
windows movie maker as it was all I had on my laptop which I was
confident using, even though its fairly basic, it did everything I
needed it to do and worked pretty well for the most part except I had
a few problems in that it would corrupt a lot of the footage every now
and again which meant I have to keep deleting, adding a reediting
parts which was pretty time consuming. For my digipak I used word
and paint as its all I had but again it worked fine and did everything I
needed it to do, although I did have to draw the outline of the roses
multiple times and crop them which was difficult. For my website I
used wix.com to get a template and work from there, I had already
used it before for a portfolio so I was already pretty used to the site

4. EVALUATION
For my evaluation I tried to use more creative ways to present my
work like Prezi and emaze. I found Prezi really easy to work with so
I’ve done 2 of my evaluation questions on there and its been really
creative and easily customisable. I tried to use emaze to make a few
presentations but I found it really hard to use and not at all user
friendly, so I've gone back to the ways I know work really well and
that I’m not going to waste lots of time on. Again, as with the rest of
my blog I've used PowerPoint and uploaded it to slide share as I just
find it’s a really clear way of presenting information without being
distracted by various effects and transitions. Although I found emaze
difficult, I would be interested in experimenting with it and other
sites at some point to broaden my presentation methods.

5. OVERALL
I think I’ve used a massive variety of technology in this project and I
think it is much more interesting and fun to explore because of it.