Evaluation question 4

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? I have used many different forms of technology throughout this project. To begin with the blog you are reading. Blogger has been a very helpful way to store all my ideas and work, as to show it off and receive feedback from other members of my media class and views and opinions from my experienced teachers. I have also used Flickr and YouTube to upload my work on their sites and I have been able to share and embed my work on to blogger so that my followers on there could see my work too. I have used many forms of it when researching, especially the internet, I have been a frequent user of YouTube, as well as Google to search for other videos and other ideas and plans I hadn’t thought of or considered. I also used Google to my advantage, using it to find official work made by artists who are already famous for their work within the music industry e.g. I searched for Chris Brown’s recent Album cover, I looked at everything it needed to legally include and what the official final cover looked like. I also used social websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to gain feedback on my work, allowing me to improve and try out other/new ideas. I have used YouTube on occasions to see music videos on there to see what mine compares to and what techniques are used allowing me to experiment with them myself. I used a handful of different technologies when it came to doing my digipak and advert. The list includes, Photoshop, Instagram, Snapseed, PicJointer and PowerCam as well as of course using a digital camera to take the pictures myself. I started by using the internet for research and blogger to put all of my research and planning on there so I knew what I was aiming for and what I wanted to create. I then used my digital camera to take pictures of my artists, locations as well as props I was planning on using within both my digipak and advert. Once I had the photos I was happy with I used technology again on my iPhone using apps such as snapseed to transform the images I had already taken to create a new look to them I then used Instagram on my iPhone to receive feedback on my images. I finished this all off and linked them all together by using Photoshop. Here I created my final work making my final digipak and advert using the programme to my full advantage using advantaged techniques on the programme to help me achieve the professional look I was aiming for. I again used new as well as previously used technologies throughout filming my video. For example I used blogger, the internet and other sources to help me research and plan what I wanted to film and to also help me gain and receive quality feedback. I have also used a video camera and read online guides (Such as http://www.angelfire.com/movies/nobudgetsfx/musicvideo.html ) to help me get the best out of my time and to help me film a professional standard music video. Once I had all my clips I used a handful of different programmes to edit my video, personally I found MoviePlusX6 to be the most handy and effective for what I wanted. I managed to use it to a high class of level, allowing me to insert texts and lip sync effectively as well as finding it easy to master and use. I later uploaded my final video onto YouTube and later onto my blogger account as well as social networks to see what everyone thought of my final video. In my evaluation I have used… These are just some off the technologies I have used and certainly do not include all of the technologies I have used throughout my project.