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- 1. QUESTION 4 How didyou use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
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- 3. YOUTUB EYouTube was usedin different stages in my research. We listened to various gospel songs on YouTube, then when we came across ‘A Little Love’ by Guvna b and believed that this could be a possible track to use along side ‘Save Me’ by Derek Minor, we then decided to go along with ‘A Little Love’. I also gathered videos/visuals for my various case studies and evaluation question 1 from YouTube. Placing YouTube videos on Blogger was really easy as they are both linked through Google. GOOGLE Google was very important in this project for various reasons. One reason is that, Google made it very easy to link all the various technologies on to Blogger, i.e. when I completed a Prezi, I was able to embed it on to blogger. Google was also heavily used in the research process of this whole project, as I was able to research products of the same genre, and get insight of existing music videos and Print products, to help shape and develop our ideas. I also used Google to look into various theories about representations and everything else regarding my research.
- 4. MOODL EMoodle was essentialas I received all the documents needed to complete tasks and projects to a high standard. For example, risk assessments, recces sheets, call sheets and talent release forms. Since AS, I have learnt how to navigate through Moodle, therefore using every document fully in my A2 Year, allowing me to know what to do for every task. TIMETOAS TI used this technology in my planning stage, this allowed me to create a timeline to record all my deadlines. It was evident that I became used to this technology, as in my AS year I was not sure how to use it, so I never looked at Moodle as much as my A2 year, as I referred to it every week, making sure I never missed any deadlines WHATSAPP WhatsApp was used for a few reasons. One was to communicate with the cast of the music video, arranging suitable dates and locations to meet up at. I also used WhatsApp to have team meetings as it was not always possible to meet my partner in person. Finally, I used WhatsApp to contact a small focus group to make comments on my completed package.
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- 6. DSLR Camera This wasmy second time using this camera (after the practice video), and I feel that the practice video gave me enough experience to understand how to effectively operate the camera. I still struggled with the settings on the camera, but after referring back to my briefing notes, I was able to fix the settings, so my shots did not come out over exposed. Because I was on camera (for my music video), I found it difficult to direct the camera as I could not see what was happening. I decided to put faith in my partner and watched the play back, and if we did not like the shot, we would re-record that part again. The camera gave us high quality pictures and video. For the type of video we wanted, we used minimal camera equipment.We only used a tripod and handheld camera movements.This allowed us to achieve the urban feel we wanted. For photography, we used soft boxes to control the type of lighting we wanted.
- 7. Final Cut Pro Weused final cut pro on the iMac to edit the music video. We have only used this program once from the ‘Happy’ practice video, but that gave us the basic skills needed to edit a music video. However, we wanted to create a professional video, so we used different sources on how to use the tools effectively. We also encountered many problems with this program, as when we played the video, everything came out of sync. We fixed this issue by formatting the files and saving everything on a hard drive instead of the desktop. Photoshop I used this program to create all my print products and to edit all my images. I had experience with this program from AS, so I really found this process very easy. I decided to experiment with the opacity of some images, the brightness and the contrast to make my products look professional. I decided to not use Adobe Illustrator for my fonts, as the fonts I wanted to use were already on Photoshop.
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- 9. Prezi Prezi is anonline program that allows you to create creative/interactive presentations. Prezi is one of my favourite technologies to use, as I found it to be highly interactive, highly creative and simple to use (once you get the hang of it). As I have been using program since AS, I have developed skills that have made my experience in A2 very easy. I have now learnt how to uses the majority of the tools effectively, which has made my presentations professional. I used Prezi for my initial ideas pitch. I also used it for my evaluation (question 2). Prezi was also easy to embed on blogger. WIX WIX is a program that allows you to create a free online website. I found this program quite difficult to use and very time-consuming, however, there are various template/layouts that you can use to make this process much easier, as you do not have to start from scratch. But this program was very good at catering for question one, as this was the longest question, so I needed it to be presented in the best way possible. I was able to use different tabs/pages to separated each section.
- 10. PowerPoint / Slideshare PowerPoint isapart of the Microsoft Office package. PowerPoint has allowed me to present my question 3 and 4 in a straightforward manner, making it very easy to enter information, images and videos. PowerPoint has allowed me to focus on the content of my answers instead of the overcomplicated animations on other technologies.This program was very easy to use as I have used it many times. I then uploaded my PowerPoint on the online program Slideshare, in which I can embed this presentation onto Blogger. Blogger Blogger is the platform we used to document all of our work/progress. Blogger was very easy to use, as I have been using this program since AS, so I now have to experience to use all of the tool to its best. I really like Blogger as you can use this on most devices (Smart Phones, Laptops, Computers andTablets) which makes it very accessible. Blogger has helped me to keep everything in one place.
- 11. Within my group,we both had different weaknesses and strengths which really helped our progress as we both completed each task according to our strengths, making our piece stronger. It is very evident that all my skills have developed from AS, as my use of the various technologies have become more advanced.