Evaluation Question 4

Question Four: How did you use media technologies in construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

This question can easily be broken down into four sections which are research, construction, planning and evaluation stages. When thinking about how we used media technologies within all these stages there are huge a vast amounts which we can include within in there.

Research:

When doing the research into creating the music video, digipak and adverts there are vast amounts of information which I came across when using a variety of different media technologies.

So when thinking about the research aspect of the main tool which I used was the Internet then search engines such as Google, then websites.

Here are some of print screens of the websites which I used with research aspect. The main piece which I used was Google which helped me get results for when trying to look for specific key bits of information linking into our specific genre. One of the other main sites which I used was Youtube, I found this most useful because it helped me when trying to look for specific conventions of music videos which applied to Goodwins Theory. I also used music websites such as NME because this showed me how certain types of music was represented within the media which was helpful when trying to plan the advert.

Planning:

When doing the planning aspect of producing the music video and ancillary taskes we used number of different media technologies. One of the one which we used is Imovie to produce an Animatic to make us get to grips which we need to produce by the end of the course work.

Here is screen shots of the animatics. We also has to use Microsoft word to manipulate and annotate our animatics within a story board, this was a really big aspect of our planning because this backed up the rest of our music video because this was the main foundation of it.

Construction:

It is obvious that construction is a big part of my blog when it comes to amount of space which it has taken up with the posts. So we had to use a number of different media technologies when doing the construction. The main piece of construction media technologies that we used was Imovie we used this in producing the music video, this is all for editing which was a very long process which took a long time to actual edit the footage to produce the video.

Another couple of pieces of media technology which I used was Apples Pages and Microsoft Publisher which we used to produce our final digipaks and adverts.

Evaluation:

Even though this is not the biggest part of our course work we did use media technologies within part of the evaluation. We used Imovie to create a video where we spoke over specific shots which showed conventions within the music video which we were trying to follow. We found this extremely effective because it saved the group writing and we got the point across well which we were trying to emphasise.

We also used Blogger as a media technology when doing the evaluation, in that matter all of the coursework. We have recorded our process throughout Blogger which we found very effective in keeping on top of work and keeping it organised.