How did you use media technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation notes?
The first thing we had to do was create individual blogs on
Blogger to allow us to post any work that we did towards our final products,
from research and planning all the way up to the actual creation of the
product. Blogger was a very useful tool to have as not only was it a way to
submit our work but it was also a way to easily share information between each
member instead of having to email each other all the work that we had done we
could easily just take it off of the blog and repost it onto our own.
During the research and planning part of the course I had to
use Youtube as a way to not only explore how other music videos look and work
but I also used it to upload a lip-syncing task. From Youtube, I looked for
other music videos of the same genre and could easily pause and print screen to
evaluate different parts of a video. It was also a very easy application to use
when you are uploading a video to your blog to use as you can either use the
embed code which is directly underneath the video or you could search for a
video on Blogger itself which will then add it to the post.
Slideshare and Prezi were two of the most important tools
throughout the entire course, using them to upload different pieces of work and
create a whole new presentation which the user can interact with. These two
programs have been used all the way from research and planning where I created
a Prezi to create a presentation on the history of music videos, right the way
up to using Slideshare to upload an evaluation question.
Photoshop was a program that was a vital to the creation of
the two ancillary products of a website and a digipak. The digipak was created
and edited on Photoshop, using it to edit the pictures we had and add text and
any other images on top to create a realistic, professional looking digipak. On
the website, there is a logo in the banner that was created on Photoshop
entirely, I used a font to create the ‘s’ and ‘h’ and then used a paint brush
tool to round off the ‘s’ and blend it into the ‘h' and then I had to edit this
picture and get it from a square to a circle big enough to fit the banner.
Final Cut was used to edit our video, we had to upload the
footage that we had taken and then cut it, add transitions and construct a
whole video that would be in time with the song. Different framing, cropping
and tools were used to create a text which was nothing like the original
unedited footage, giving it meaning and something our target audience could
relate to.
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