1. QUESTION4
How did you use media technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluating stages?
Blogger
I used website blogger.com to present my whole project, from product
research, to the design layouts for my ancillaries, to my draft edit and
final project. The website was an easy way to showcase my collection
of work documents, making it easy to navigate. After using it in AS
year, I was familiar with the different way posting different forms of
media such as youtube videos and slide share videos differing from posting photographs and text
straight onto a blog post. Overall, the website has helped me to present my work in an organised
fashion.
Photoshop
Having acquired Photoshop skills in AS year, image manipulation was a simple task
for my A2 ancillary projects creating a digipak and magazine advert. As I was
already familiar with the tools and techniques of the programme, I was able to
complete my ancillary projects rather quickly. This programme was used for the
construction stage of my project.
Premier
As a completely new programme, I had to first get to grips with the tools of Adobe
Premier, creating quick mock ups by piecing clips together as well as creating our
draft edit. It took a while to get used to the different editing techniques, but
eventually the programme became a useful tool within the construction stage for
creating our final project music video.
Slideshare
I was already familiar with the online website from AS year,
as we used it frequently to upload power points and word
documents of things such as our product research. I used
this website again this year as it was a simply way to help
present my research onto my media blog.
Facebook
We used Facebook within the research stage of our project to collect feedback on our
draft edit of our music video. We had used the social media site last year, creating a
focus group for our magazine feedback, and as it proved to be a quick and easy way
to get peoples opinions on our projects, we thought we would use it again this year.
The social media site allowed us to set up a focus group with a select group of people
within our target audience age range to watch our draft music video, with a link to the
video its self in the group. We asked the members of the focus group to comment on
what they liked about the video, what they didn't like, and what they thought we could
improve on. We received their feedback almost instantly, which was helpful as we
were able to figure out what changed we needed to make for our final edit.
Prezi

2. Used within the evaluation stage of my project to answer Question 1. As this question required a
lot of visual examples in the form of photographs and stills taken from our music video, I decided to
used Prezi as an excited way to display my examples instead of using a straightforward powerpoint
presentation. I had used the programme in AS year for one of my evaluation questions, and it had
worked effectively to demonstrate examples of my own work to the viewer.