Tuesday 6 December 2011

Evaluation Activity 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

(I created the above picture quickly using Word.Doc and Paint.)

Blogger: I used this to create this blog as well as follow other blogs. We have used this throughout our coursework to record the construction, research,planning and now the evaluating stages of our music video.
YouTube: I used this to research into existing music videos and music videos specific to our music genre of R&B. Our group also used this to look at Youtube documentaries in our genre. We used You Tube alot during our project for inspiration,ideas,etc.
Time Glider: I used this to create a timeline of the history of music video.This was easy to use and with pictures added on each date looked quite effective.
Prezi: I used this to create my Star Study and my music genre comparision/analysis. This was easy to use and made my work look like an interactive presentation.
Slideshare: I created a presentation on our chosen song choice which included the planning of extras,props,audience,representation,actors,location, media language and key lyrics with this. It was an easy way to upload powerpint presentations and word.docs to our group blog and my blog.
Go! Animate: We will use this to create Evalaution question two. Our group wanted to be different instead of filming ourselves for question 2 of the evaluation we created an 'interview styled' animation.
Wordle: I used this to create 'word clouds' for Evaluation Activity 3 to show our peer assessment feedback. This is a different, more visually pleasing way to show good feedback and what our group could improve about our main product and ancillary products.
DSLR camera for photo shoot: This gave our group high quality photographs to work with which makes our magazine advertisement look of a better quality and a professional feel.
Microsoft Powerpoint: We used this to create our presentations on our work
www.dafont.com: This where are group got the two different fonts for the artists name (J.REYEZ) and the album name (Take.Over) from. We used these fonts on our album cover and magazine advertisement. This had a huge variety of different fonts to choose from in different themes which allowed as to find ones that fitted our music genre.
Survey Monkey: As a group we used this to create an audience research survey so we could undertsand our target audiences age, if they listened to R&B and Rap, what they expected from an R&b music video,etc.This survey worked well as people didn't mind completing surveys online as they can be done quicker.
MSN/Hotmail: Our group used this to communicate between each other and send large attachments such as the fist drafts of the magazine advertisement and album cover. I also used MSN to post our groups audience survey form survey monkey to get more replies/answers from a wider range of people.
Facebook: This was used to remind extras and helpers included in our music video or it production the times,dates and locations that they needed to be at.This proved very effective and was less time consuming then phoning or speaking to them,etc.
Microsoft Word:We used this to edit images quickly when needed and to printscreen from. I used word to create a general magazine advertisement analysis.
Paint: We used this to edit images and for quickly editing still frames for analysis.
Adobe Photoshop: Our group used Photoshop to edit images for the album cover and magazine advertisement. We used this program alot and our group already had experience working with it which helped our editing to be less time consuming  and of a higher quality.
HD video camera and tripod to film the music video:This helped our music video as the HD video camera has a better picture quality, this was important as we edited the colour on each shot so we needed it to be seen clearly.
Digital camera for location shots: I used a digital camera to take pictures of Location before or when our group where at them. I then uploaded these to our group blog.
Apple Mac: We used the mac to create our music video and animatic on. We also used the mac to research on during lessons.
iMovie HD (for animatic and album discussion): Our group used iMovie as we have worked with it in the past and it is very easy and quick to use and edit clips with. 
Final Cut Express: Our group created our music video with this program. Overall we worked well in this program and used a variety of different effects, transitions and colour features that were on the program.

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