A2 Media Coursework Evaluation

2. During A2 media I have used a various amount of
different technologies to help create the best
possible coursework I can. I have used most of the
media technologies In AS as well as A2 which is
why in A2 I noticed that I was able to use them
much more effectively. Therefore creating a music
video, digipak and a website was easier because I
have had experience in the media technologies in
AS. Even though the media technologies I used
benefited me a lot, it also provided me with some
limitations such as a lack of privacy on my blog
because people were easily able to click on my
link for my blog and copy the information which
I’ve researched to find out which is not fair.
AS– A2
Real
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3. During this stage in my coursework the media
technologies I used was:
 Weebly
 Google
 Wikipedia
 YouTube
 Survey Monkey

4.  Weebly – Weebly was the main technology I used for because I
chose to create a blog on Weebly. Weebly was new to me because in AS I
used Blogger but I decided to switch to Weebly in A2 because Blogger was
always having problem, messing up my work. Using Weebly this year made
me realise that it is better than Blogger because it provides you with
better templates and it allows you to be more create with the blog you
create, I was able to easily adjust every to my needs easily. Everything is
simplified so I was able to comfortably create a new blog anytime I want
without no interruption with the server. Weebly allowed me to post any
picture or video I want, it also allowed me to edit the pictures I post which
Blogger did not allow me.
 Google – Google was the main technology I used to do research and
get images. Nearly all the pictures from my research are from google
images because I use it all the time for images because it’s easy to use and
it provides me with all the relevant images I look for. Therefore when I
needed an image I knew I will be able to type what I want and it will
display the various images of the same image which I need fast. Other
search engines such as Bing are not as good as Google because they don’t
always have the same image as Google and Bing is slower than google. The
fact that I always use Google to get images, I use it to research things
because I always have it open and when I research on google it provides all
the links which are the most relevant to what I search.
 Wikipedia – Wikipedia was the main technology I used for facts
about artists, music labels, genre research, music channels and the
development of music videos. I trusted Wikipedia, so I saw it as a reliable
source with key facts which were very useful information that I included in
my research on my blog. So Wikipedia has allowed me to gain a lot of
facts about Grime therefore I was able to gather them all and write a new
blog in my own words comfortably because the information I would gather
on Wikipedia would give me background information which I was able to
expand on.

5. YouTube – YouTube was the main technology where I
used videos from because doing A2 media I have been set a task to
create a music video so at the research stage I had to watch Music
Videos and analyse them. I also has to research on YouTube for the
music videos which inspired me and include them easily onto my
blog by copy and pasting the embed code onto Weebly with a click
of a button. For me YouTube was the best video site because it
included the most Grime video because nearly all Grime artists
upload their Music Videos onto YouTube because it is for free and it
is the most popular video site.
Survey Monkey – Survey Monkey was the main
technology which helped me gain information from our target
audience about what they want to see. Creating a survey like this
allowed us to adjust the video to our target audience, so they are
able to receive the most entertainment possible from the video we
create. Survey monkey was easy to use and easy to send out to
people which is why I chose to use it. Survey Monkey allowed me to
create multiple choice question which was beneficial because it is
quicker to fill therefore we was able to receive a lot of feedback.

6. Overall, the media technologies that I have used during my research
stage have all benefited me in different ways and some were more
effective than others. The most effective media technology was
Google because it provided me with all the sites I need to look at
research about my genre and gain as much information as I could,
which I have done successfully. The least effective media
technology that I used was Wikipedia because the information I
have gained from it would have been on another site too which I
could of find through using Google, but that does not mean
Wikipedia was not effective. Wikipedia was effective because I was
able to gain the facts I need about my Grime, meaning it still played
a role in having a solid research on my genre of music. The other
media technologies which I have not mentioned that are in the
previous slides have been as effective as each other but Google was
the most and Wikipedia was the least effective.

7. During this stage in my coursework the media
technologies I used was:
 YouTube
 Scribd
 Outlook
 Microsoft word
 Microsoft PowerPoint
 Camera
 Mobile phone

8.  YouTube – YouTube was very vital for our group in the planning stage because it allowed
us to upload vlog’s onto it for free and embed the video onto my blog comfortably. Every vlog
which we created was uploaded onto our group member Berkay’s YouTube account because he
had the computer which uploaded videos onto YouTube the fastest and due to this reason the
whole of A2 I uploaded vlog’s onto his account. Therefore YouTube has benefitted me a lot
during planning because I have also been able to upload the ‘lip sync’ videos onto there too,
which is a part of my planning and in total I have posted 8 videos on planning which have all
been embedded from YouTube.
 Scribd – Scribd is a site which allows anyone to upload a PowerPoint presentation onto
for free. This media technology allowed me to place my group pitch onto it’s site and then
allow me to use the embedded code to upload it onto my planning blog without any hassle. It
was quick and easy to upload videos to Scribd because it did not require me to create a login, I
was given the option of uploading the video straight away without signing up so I did and it
successfully uploaded onto the site. Also Scribd is good because the PowerPoint presentation
was large and not small on my blog, allowing the viewer to comfortably read though the slides.
 Outlook – Outlook email is the main media technology which is used by most people in
London, my whole group have outlook accounts and artists use email to be contacted by other.
So we used Outlook to email Grace which is Skepta’s manager, we emailed her to receive
permission to use Skepta’s track for ‘It Aint Safe’ and she replied to us even though we thought
she wouldn’t, saying ‘Sure’, meaning we were giving permission to use the track. So having a
Outlook account benefited us because we were able to easily contact Grace without having to
sign up to Outlook because signing up to Outlook is a very long process because it requires a lot
of information.
 Microsoft word – I used Microsoft Word to create a shot list, risk assessment and
filming schedule. Therefore it has had a huge benefit for my planning section because those 3
were very key planning which we had to complete in order to create a successful music video. I
used Microsoft Word and not another media technology to create these 3 blogs because it allows
me to create tables very easily to what ever size I want it. All 3 blogs were tables and I created
them very easily by just using the table tool on the insert toolbar and it allowed me to choose
the number of boxes I wanted in the table and create it. So overall it provided me with 3
successful blogs. Also I use Microsoft to check spelling mistakes because when I type blogs on
Weebly I rush and I make mistakes which I don’t notice because Weebly does not spot it out but
once I’ve copy and pasted the paragraph onto Word it automatically checks it for me.
Therefore, this way have a blog without any mistakes.

9.  Microsoft PowerPoint – PowerPoint was a very useful media
technology because I allowed me to create a presentation, which I could be as
creative I want. I needed to create a presentation on PowerPoint because I had
to create a group pitch for my music video with my group which was easy to
create on PowerPoint and the good thing about PowerPoint is that it provides you
with different background designs which makes the presentation look good. Also
PowerPoint allows you paste any picture onto it and you can edit it too, to make
it the right size of crop it. The disadvantage of PowerPoint is that it does not
allow you to upload the presentation from PowerPoint itself, instead you are
required to upload it to a presentation site such as the one I used, ‘Scribd’. So,
PowerPoint would be better if it allowed us to post a onto Weebly presentation
straight away.
 Camera – This was a vital piece of media technology because we used it a
lot during my planning stage. I had to use a camera to record the videos which
needed to be on my blog of my vlogs and lip sync’s. The camera we used was
Canon 750d which was quite high quality therefore our videos came out as good
quality and we had no problem with uploading it to YouTube because all we had
to do was plug in the SD card from the camera into the Apple Mac computers in
school and transfer/upload the selected videos onto YouTube which you just sign
into on a browser. So uploading a video from the cameras was easy but there was
one problem which was the fact that big files took long to upload onto YouTube,
making me wait for a long period of time.
 Mobile phone – This piece of media technology allowed me to keep in
contact with my group members to keep each other updated with the planning
for our video because we came up with all the planning as a group using each
others ideas to create each blog. On our mobile phone we was able to share
images to each other on Wats-App which is a social networking app and we had
created a group chat on it which involved all 4 of us in the chat. It was our
melting point because we would all talk about what to do and what step to take
next on the group chat so it certainly did help is lead to success with our music
video and played a vital role in our planning stage.

10. Overall, the media technologies that I have used during my planning
stage have all benefited me in different ways and some were more
effective than others. The most effective media technology was our
mobile phone because it allowed our group to stay organised and
plan our music video successfully. The fact that we were not
working individually meant that we had to all be updated with the
planning that has been done to add our own points to it and see if
we need to make any changes to it. So the fact that we all had a
mobile phone that has Wats-App meant that we was easily able to
send each other information about planning and also send each
other images as well. Therefore mobiles phones allowed all of our
group members as a whole to keep on track with our planning.
During planning there was not any media technology which was not
effect, they were all as effective as each other, but in my own
opinion I think that mobile phones benefited our group the most and
allowed our planning to be very good.

11.  During this stage in my coursework the media
technologies I used was:
 Camera
 Photoshop
 Wix
 Sony Vegas Pro

12.  Camera – A camera was a vital media technology which we used
frequently throughout our construction stage because we were out recording our
music video. The camera we used was the same one as the one we used during
our planning stage (Canon 700D). Everyone in our group got to do some recording
for our music video but I done the least because we chose to use me as the
actor/artist. So I was the one being recorded but I recorded a few establishing
shots which we used in our music video. At first I did not know how to use the
camera very well but using it every week helped me learn how to use it
effectively and take clear shots. The two group members which done most of the
camera recording was Berkay and Sukru because they were the two that was the
most familiar with the camera which we were using. So overall the camera was a
very beneficial piece of media technology and it gave us the opportunity to
produce the music video we dreamed of creating, which was a success.
 Photoshop – Photoshop was the main media technology which we
used to edit our Digipak. We used Photoshop because it allows you to create
what ever you want, it also is simple to use once you become familiar with the
tools which is how I got used to it, but Berkay done most of the Photoshop to the
Digipak because that’s his expertise, meaning he was able to use it very well. We
used a Digipak template to help guide us and so we get the exact measurements
so that we don’t have on panel bigger than another. So by using Photoshop we
was ableto finish creating our Digipak because it was quick and easy to use. Our
Digipak turned out better than we expected so using Photoshop was a very
beneficial choice has allowed us to succeed in making the Digipak we want.

13.  WIX – WIX is the media technology which allowed us to create our site for
free. It is a website allows people create a website for any purpose and we chose
to use this website because we saw that other people have made very successful
sites for their artist using this website, so we chose WIX. The main creator of our
artist website was Dogus and Sukru but myself and Berkay helped too because we
gave them all the ideas and they were able to follow us as a guide and take place
the actions needed to get the website looking how I wanted it too look. I drew the
draft for our website in the planning stage and the final draft of our website looks
very similar to the first draft I drew. WIX gave us the freedom of being able to
what ever we want with the site we was creating so we became creative and
created website. So overall WIX was a success for us because we were able to
create a high quality website for our artist for free.
 Sony Vegas Pro – Sony Vegas Pro is the media technology which
we used to edit our music video. We chose this programme to edit our music video
instead of another programme because myself and my group member Berkay was
very familiar with it because we have used it in the past. Berkay and I edited the
video together using the programme we realised how useful this programme is
because it was allowing us to what we want to the music video and we to on
board the freedom we had in the making of this video edited the video like no
other Grime music video. If we used another program such as final cut pro on the
I-Macs in our school, our video would not have been as good because we were not
as familiar with that programmer and they are very different to each other. So we
have made a very beneficial choice by choosing to work with Sony Vegas Pro and
our music video shows that we have seen success by using this programme.

14. Overall, the media technologies that I have used during my
construction stage have all benefited me in different ways
and some were more effective than others. There was not at
a media technology that was more effective than the other
media technologies because they all played a vital role
during the planning stage which lead our music video, digipak
and website to success. Without the use of a camera we
would of not been able to record, without the use of
Photoshop we would of not been able to create a digipak,
without WIX we could not have been able to create a website
and without Sony Vegas Pro we could not have been able to
edit the music video. So overall my construction used every
element possible equally.

15.  During this stage in my coursework the media
technologies I used was:
 Emaze
 Prezi
 YouTube
 PowerPoint
 Scribd

16.  Emaze – Emaze is the media technology which I have used to create a presentation on for my
evaluation question 1. I used Emaze because it was something which people do not really use, it is a very
creative presentation making website. It is nothing like PowerPoint, Emaze provides the viewer with a 3D
presentation which is very creative. I have used this and not PowerPoint because I chose to use PowerPoint
for the question 4 evaluation question. Using Emaze has allowed my blog to be full of creativity because I
have decided to do each of my evaluation question with a different media and Emaze was the first one I
used because I thought that it is the most amusing media because it is not a type of presentation people
would see everyday. So using Emaze allowed my evaluation to look creative so I have successfully used this
media technology.
 Prezi – Prezi is the media technology which I have used to create a presentation for my question 2
on evaluation. Prezi suited the question I was answering because it allowed me to create a different type of
presentation to Emaze and using Prezi I learned that it is more creative if you use your creativity to it’s full
potential. Emaze was very creative because it turns your presentation 3D making it the viewer feel like
they are in a gallery, but Prezi is different to this because it provides you with all the tools to create a
presentation how ever you want, giving me a lot of freedom with my creativity. Out of Emaze and Prezi I
have enjoyed using Prezi more because it kept me learning new thing as a was creating my presentation,
but Emaze was similar to PowerPoint because it just provides you with a slide and you add what you want
and when it is finished Emaze animates it to become a 3D gallery.

17.  YouTube – YouTube is the media technology which I have used for my
question 3 for my evaluation. As a group we decided to have our question 3 on
video because we chose to do this question as a group and for the third question
we had to talk about what we have gained from our audience feedback. Using a
Canon camera we recorded our selves as a group and once we finished it we
uploaded it on to YouTube because we already had an account for our media
work. YouTube has had a good impact on my A2 coursework as a whole because I
have been using it throughout A2 and I have not had any issues with it, meaning I
have always successfully uploaded videos and always been able to have access to
those video. Overall YouTube has played a big role in my A2 coursework.
 PowerPoint – PowerPoint is the media technology which I have
used for question 4 for my evaluation, alongside with SlideShare. Using
PowerPoint I knew I had a great chance to show off a range of images because
it’s white background and simple designs to the pages allow the images I include
on a slide to stand out. Using images is a key element which I have noticed from
undertaking A2 media course work because it boosts the creativity of the page a
viewer is seeing. Therefore I always make sure I have my presentations packed
with images such as my PowerPoint presentation. The presentation that I’ve
created on PowerPoint can not just be uploaded straight away onto my blog so I
had to use slide share to be able to create an embedded code for my
presentation and upload it onto my blog.

18. Overall, the media technologies that I have used during my
evaluation stage have all benefited me in different ways and some
were more effective than others. Each media technology has had an
massive impact on my coursework and have been successfully used
to it’s full potential. Emaze has allowed my question one for my
evaluation to look 3D, packed with animation. Prezi has allowed me
to show my true creativity because it is hard to get a presentation
to have a lot of information and still be very successful, YouTube
allowed my group to show that we can work well together. It clearly
shows how we get a lot of work completed for our coursework
together. Lastly, PowerPoint has allowed me create a bold
presentation which is not too creative but included a lot of
creativity elements within the music video. Therefore overall
evaluation was dominated with these 4 media technology's.

19. In conclusion, all media technologies have lead me
in seeing success because they all allowed me to
gain all the marginal gains needed to get my A2
coursework to become perfect. Without all the
media technologies which I chose to use, my A2
coursework would have not been successful
because the media technologies I have used are
the best in it’s sector. Therefore I am happy
overall with all the work which I have produced
during A2.