EVALUATION: Question 3

EVALUATION: Question 3 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

There were many forms of media technologies that I used to help the construction, research and planning of all products I had made in the end.

Blogger was a form of technology, which I had used throughout the stages of constructing and planning my ancillary products. Blogger was a form of technology that enabled me to write about the experiences and stages I planned on doing where I was then able to go back and look upon to see what I wrote about and what it was that inspired my choices. There were many blogging tasks, I participated in, and research was one of them. When researching I had to make sure I blogged about it, this was because when creating the product I would need to go back and see what it was that influenced my choices doing this saved time as all I needed to do was go over the written task and add this information to the stage which I was at. Blogger was also used as a plan/ storyboard where I was able to go back and check the plans, which I had made. Doing this I was able to save time, as I didn’t waste time planning as I had the information I needed already posted on the blog. Looking at the locations of where we wanted to shoot the video it was important to blog about, this was so that the teachers were able to keep up to date with the work we were doing. Throughout the production of the ancillary work and the making of the video it was essential I blogged the progress I was making so I could reflect upon it and see the aspect’s which worked and those that didn’t and why it didn’t.  

The Internet was another form of media I used to help the construction and research when planning for the end product. I had used the Internet to gather a variety of images that linked to the genre of our chosen choice and also the aspects they are interested in. YouTube was what I used the most; this was where I looked at a variety of videos to generate some ideas of what kinds of editing and camerawork most of them tend to use. You tube was a major help as I was able to look at videos linked to my genre and the types of edits and camera work they used. I also used online presentations, which I created these included, beeclup, prezi, kizola, and photobucket. All these were online presentations I created helping me present my work instead of it just being written form.

USING CAMTASIA

Using Photoshop 

USING FCP VIDEO

FINAL CUT

                   

On final cut we were able to use many edits and cut down scenes which were too long adding effects like slow motion etc. Final cut was the form of technology we had used when making the music video. Once we had filmed footage from the green screen, final cut was the software we used to remove the green background using effects such as Chroma keying where we color picked the color ‘green’ which we didn’t want.

I had also used final cut to create the animatic for our music video this was then later on put in our pitch to show the audience as well as our teachers a brief idea of how we expect our video to turn out. Creating this was important as it gave us an idea of the ideas which we put forward and was used as a back up for us to go back and look over if we had forgotten any ideas.

FCP ANIMATIC