How did you use media technologies in the planning and research, construction and evaluation stages?
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2. My group created a Facebook page that
included all our group members plus the cast
and crew of our video.This allowed us to
schedule filming dates that were suitable for
everyone involved. It also allowed us to share
pieces of work and decide who was doing what
even when we weren't together.We also posted
the rough cuts of our video to our Facebook
profiles so that our friends and family could give
us their feedback and criticisms.
3. We usedYouTube for multiple reasons.We
found videos to analyse, past examples of
students work, downloaded the song we
needed and we posted the several drafts of
our video toYouTube.Without the use of
YouTube both our research and our product
would have been extremely hard to create.
4. I used prezi for the first question of my
evaluation. Although prezi is incredibly simple to
use, my use of it demonstrated my ability to use
different types of media. Prezi is very different
from your average slide-based presentation tool.
You start with a blank page and can add and
manipulate content anywhere on the page.
Unlike PowerPoint, prezi is very unique, it allows
you to display your work in an interesting,
unusual way.There is no specific way that you
have to arrange your slideshow so each prezi will
be completely different.
5. Photoshop was used in our project to create both the
digipak and the poster.The many tools and features it has
to offer helped us to create unusual and unique effects.
One advantage of these tools and features is that it
enables us to merge pictures together and make them
look professional. By using tools such as hue and
saturation we were able to give photographs a darker feel
to them which correlates with what our niche target
audience want.We then used the layer tool to add a
Record Label logo and barcode to our digipak. Without
this feature our production would not have looked
authentic, and there was no other way for us to achieve
this finish, other than to use Photoshop.This again gives it
that professional look which helps attract consumers.
6. We used a digital handheld camera to shoot our
video.This allowed us to record from any angle
we wanted to as it was portable .The effect of
this is that it gave us creative ways to record our
video. Typically it's much easier to have a
camera that can fit into small places or can be
moved over long distances on foot rather than a
full rig encumbered by weight and size. the
technique of using a handheld camera has been
used to heighten tension and give realism which
was one of the main aims of our project.
7. We used premier elements to edit our film.
This was extremely effective as it allowed us
to continuously make changes to our video. It
was also useful as this program has a number
of effects that helped to make our video as
unique as possible. Due to the fact that we
wanted our video to have an edgy feel to it,
the effects that this program provided us
with allowed us to achieve this and enabled
us to accomplish our desired video.