Answer for question by the use of powerpoint

1. Question 4
How did you use media
technologies in the
construction research and
planning and evaluation
stages

2. Evolution of media technologies
• The media technologies that I used throughout my three
stages were varied to help me widen my knowledge wroth
the different software's that I could use as a way to show the
examiner that I have a good knowledge of what technologies
are available toady as they has been a massive
development of technology whether that be social media,
film technology or media technology.

3. RESEARCH
• The main piece of media technology that I used was Blogger,
which allowed me to display all the work that I had done for
my research, planning construction and evaluation. By using
blogger I was able to place all of tasks onto my board, where
the examiner would be able to see clearly al the tasks that I
have carried out. I found blogger very easy to used and I liked
how I could chose how my layout as well as how to present
my blog to the examiner as I do not want it to look all messy
and the examiner struggle to find my work.

4. RESEARCH
• During my research tasks I had to analyze
three music video so I could understand the
genre conventions that my music video needs
to include. The piece of software that I used
for this task was Microsoft PowerPoint,
although this is a very basic piece of
technology, I was able to used PowerPoint’s
layout to help me sure that I could explain the
points about the genre convention that the
music video uses. I positive about using
PowerPoint is that I have used in for a long
time and I have been able to develop my skills
so I could create an effective PowerPoint. A
major limitation by using PowerPoint is that
the examiner could be bored of seeing
PowerPoint being used as it is not the most
effective piece of media technology to use if I
want o achieve the best grade I can.

5. RESEARCH
• Also during my research tasks I had to analyze three
digipack adverts and three album diigpacks. The
software that I used was called Thing Link and this
allowed my to place a tag on certain bit of the advert/
digipack and therefore I was able to explain why the
advert/ digipack uses this convention and how this
would have an effect on the audience. I really liked
using this piece of software as it was very straight
foreword and not that complicated. By using this
piece of software will hopefully show the examiner
that I am able to broaden my knowledge of media
technologies.

6. RESEARCH
• Another piece of media technology that I
used was Prezi, and I used this piece of
software when I was doing my 9 frame
analysis of a music video. This task
involved selecting 9 frames firma music
video and highlight all the conventions,
camera angles, editing and mise en scene
that the frame uses. I have used prezi
before so I had a very good knowledge of
how to use it, by using prezi helped my
with the structure and layout of the my 9
frame. The only problem with me using this
piece of software was that i was not
challenging my ability to use new pieces of
software.

7. RESEARCH
• The final piece of software that I used for my
research tasks was Survey Monkey, this is a
website that allows you to design a
questionnaire. The questionnaire that I
designed was to help me with my music video
as I wanted to know what the pubic want to
see in a music video, so that I could make
mys music video appeal to my audience. I
have used survey monkey before as I created
a questionnaire last year for my portfolio. The
main advantage by using survey monkey is
that It was very easy to get feedback form
people as I could put it on my blog, Facebook
page or Email it to people and very easy to
create.

8. PLANNING
• Throughout my planning I didn't’t use a
lot of different media technologies, as I
tended to use Microsoft Word
Throughout. However, when I was
creating my initial ideas for my music
video I used a piece of software popplet.
This piece of software allowed my to
create a mind map in the computer of all
the different ideas that I had about my
music video, which I could embed on
my blog

9. CONSTRUCTON
• During my construction I yet again used other pieces
of media software to help me create my music video,
digipack and advert. The first piece of software that I
used was called Final Cut, by using this piece of
software I was able to put together al of the shoots
that I had taken over the previous weeks and place
them into final cut. The feature that final Cut uses
abled me to crop shoots if they were to long, place
the audio of the song over the video, I was able to
correct the lip singing if it was slightly out of time to
the music. I was also able to place a filter over my
music to help set the narrative mood of my music
video. Before, this tasks I had never used Final Cut,
so I had to et to grips with how it works and the
features that were available to me on the software.
Once my music video was completed I was able to
upload it onto my YouTube which I could then place
on my blog.

10. CONSTRUCTION
• My last piece of software that I used was
Adobe Photoshop. This helped me to create
my digipack and my advert. In order to
create my digipack I used a six palette which
helped me with the layout as I needed to
pace the right photos in the correct pallets. I
was also able to use the fonts that I wanted
as I was able to download then from a
website called Da Font, this website was
easy to find and it was easy for me to
download the fonts from the website, it was
totally free and they were very easy to
download. After the fonts had downloaded I
was able to uses them on both my digipack
and advert.
• By using Adobe Photoshop I was able to
drop images that I had taken with the DSLR
camera and place them

11. CONSTRUCTION- EQUIPMENT
• The main piece of equipment that I used to
help me shoot piece of film for my music
video as well as take pictures for my digipack
and advert was a Cannon DLSR camera, By
using this camera I was able to take it to the
locations where I wanted to film as it was
light, small and portable. I was also very
impressed with how easy it was to use as it
was very straight forward to use. By using
this camera I was able to film in a very high
quality and therefore it would make my music
video look a high quality, as I did not want my
music video to look professional.