William Nabwana-Tabingwa used various media technologies in the construction, research, planning, and evaluation stages of his A2 media project. He used Weebly to document his portfolio, Wix for website creation, Twitter to promote his artist, Wikipedia for research, Slideshare to upload presentations, Gmail to contact artists, Photoshop for design work, Final Cut Pro for video editing, Survey Monkey for audience research, the internet as a research tool, Mixbook for presentations, Prezi for presentations, and equipment like lights, a tripod, and camera for filming.

1. How did you use media
technologies in the construction
and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
William Nabwana-Tabingwa – A2 Evaluation

2. Weebly
 Weebly is a web-hosting service featuring a drag-and-drop
website builder. It hosts 20milion plus sites with over 1 million
visitors a month. Some of Weebly’s rivals are Wix, Webs,
SnapPage and WordPress.
 I used Weebly for the regular documentation of my A2 Media
portfolio in which I split into five sections: Home, Research,
Planning, Production and Evaluation. In my AS foundation portfolio
and decided to carry on using as Weebly allows you to create a
professional site which looks smooth and presentable.

3.  Wix is a cloud-based web development platform that allows use
to create HTML5 website and mobile sites, through the use of
their online drag and drop tools. Wix allows its user to add
functionalities such as social plug-ins, ecommerce and contact
forms.

4.  Twitter is a one of the leading social media sites which has closed
the gap between the artist and fan by the fans being allowed to
follow their favoured artist and find out the latest. My partner and
I thought it would be good for our artist Danny Billz to have a
twitter page so that fans can find out DB’s latest shows, videos and
what he’s getting up to on a daily basis. This allows the audience
to feel as if they know the artist more on a personal level which
strengthens the interest in the artist.
 Link for website: http://ameerahmed1.wix.com/dannybillz
Twitter

5. Wikipedia
 In terms of my research Wikipedia played an
important role as it was a key tool In which I
used to obtain information that would be of
use to me. For instance I used Wikipedia for
my artist research task in which I was able to
get hold of information on Grime MC Junior
Adenuga, better known for he’s stage name
Skepta. I was able to find out information such
as how he’s career started, ablum/mixtape
releases, awards, single and music associates.

6. Slideshare
 Slideshare is a web 2.0 based slide hosting service. It allows users
can to upload files with the choice to make them private or public
in the formats of PowerPoint, PDF and Keynote. You are able to
view slides on itself, hand held devices or embedded on a site.
 I’ve used Slideshare in the evaluation stage as for my question 4 of
my evaluation I have chosen to use PowerPoint to help present it
on and will be upload it onto Slideshare then embedded onto my
blog site on Weebly.

7. Gmail
 I used Google mail to help with contacting Frankie Boyle, who is
an underground Rap/Grime rapper who’s stage name is Potter
Payper. I emailed Potter Payper to ask for he’s consent to recreate
a video and use he’s single titled “TBH”. I was fortunate enough to
gain a reply from the artist in which he gave he’s full support in
allowing us to do so for our media project.

8. Photoshop
 Photoshop was used in the planning stage of my coursework as
my partner and I used Photoshop to create our digipak for the
artist Danny Billz. To help produce a high quality digipak I watched
YouTube tutorials to help with the understanding of certain tools
and techniques i.e. Reduce image saturation to make the image
look old. As well as that creating the track list and carefully place it
on the back cover of the digipak so that its clear for the people to
see when looked at. Also used Photoshop to create a logo for a
YouTube channel called Underground TV in which it appears at
the end of our music video and an interview for the channel with
Danny Billz.

9. Final Cut Pro
 Final cut pro was used to edit my partner and I’s music video
in which we were able to be more creative and built upon
skills that we learnt from our AS Media coursework. For
instance we used the dissolve transition to represent a
change in time. As well as that we were able to lower the
saturation which made it obvious to the audience that events
from the past are being shown.

10. Survey Monkey
 I used survey monkey for research stage of my coursework as the
questions and results asked helped shape the direction of my
partner and I’s music video. Also the ways in which we would
share it around i.e. YouTube.

11. Internet
 The internet was a major tool in which I used for research,
planning, evaluation, planning and construction as it allowed
me to access videos, photo, information that I needed.
Without the internet I would not have been able to put
produce my media product to a good standard as it was vital
in being able to access everything I could in order to help
with my A2 media coursework.

12. Mixbook
 I used mix book for my evaluation stage as I used it to
present my Question 2 of my evaluation on as it allowed me
to add text and images together in a book format.

13. Prezi
 Prezi is a cloud based presentation software and story-telling
tools for presenting ideas on a vital canvas.
 I used Prezi for the evaluation stage as I constructed my
Question 1 of my evaluation using Prezi. Felt that Prezi was
most suitable as it allowed me to show a process.

14. Equipment
 The equipment I used for the construction our my partner and
I’s music video was lights, tripod and a camera. The use of
the light was for the interrogation scene in which we want the
main focus to be on the artist and a strong ray of light it
typical in an interrogation scene. The use of a tripod was to
make the shots used within our music video to be steady and
look professional. The camera of course was used through in
filming our music video and filming video logs that my partner
and I had done on various blog posts.