Evaluation Question 4

 

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

 

For my media project, I have used many different types of media technologies. I used lots of variations of technologies so that it was easier for me to produce our product and by using so many different technologies, we were able to make our products to a better and higher standard.

 

To keep track of my project, I used Blogger - owned by google - used to write down anything that we did as we did it so that I can refer back to it at a later date. Using blogger has been extremely useful during my project because it has enabled me to keep up to date with what work we've already done as a group and work I've done by myself.

 

Blogger has helped me link posts together for example, posts, production and planning. My media tutor can also keep track on how far along in our project we are by our blogs.

 

Blogger was not the only online media that I used trhoughout my project, I also used common sits such as google/google images - it was easy to use and saved me a lot of hassle because I didn't have to search through numerous sites to get my research because google is so quick and handy. It helped me find images quickly and videos because it has such a defined search system - it doesn't come up with information that I don't actually want.

 

I have also used sites for videos like youtube because its also quick like google and helped me to find videos that i could relate to when researching horror trailers. It also helps because it comes up with suggestions that it thinks I'll be interested in and it sometimes might be something that I hadn't even thought of but that could be extremely useful.

Youtube has probably been one of the biggest helps with my project because its enabled me to upload our own work and get feedback, get videos for research and watch others videos. Google often suggests videos on youtube so when researching and planning our main product (trailer), we got lots of good ideas from youtube.

Once we'd put our video on youtube, family and friends were also able to comment and give us positive feedback on our trailer so this programme was a big help thoughout our project.

 

I have also used social networking sites such as facebook to my advantage because they have enabled me to put our main product and ancillary texts onto them to get feedback which has been very useful especially at the end of our project when we had last alterstions to make.

I didn't just use online media programmes throughout my project, I also used programmes that were on my computer, for example, Powerpoint and microsoft word. These were very helpful when planning our trailer and poster because we could save all our different versions and ideas onto them and then upload them onto our blogs. Powerpoint was especially helpful when we were in the making process of our project because we could screenshot what we were doing and then paste it onto powerpoint and save it as an image and upload it onto our blog later.

To capture our video clips we use our Sony Handy cam, because it is easy to use with good active electronic image stabilization and a built-in USB cable for quick uploads. It gives us nice clear videos and also has very clear results, it’s also nice and compact which is good for travelling and hand-held shots. The camera we are using to take still images is called a Nikon D40, this is a brilliant small compact camera, and is very efficient. It has a 6MP and the images look very good.

 

To edit our trailer, we used windows live movie maker. Now, we would have loved to use imovie but unfortunately the apple computer that we had wouldn't read the video clips so after several attamepts, we had to use another microsoft programme.

It wasn't all bad, this programme enabled us to decide what order to put the clips, crop the clips, add sound effects, add voice overs and special effects.

 

  

  

 

 

 

In my opinion, the evaluation process was made much more easy and interesting because I had so many advance technologies such as google and blogger meaning I could evaluate on my blog and then use images from google to illustrate what I was talking about. 

I am pleased with my overall project and progress and I feel this was all made possible and easier by all of these varying media programmes, they have been a great help and have taken alot of pressure off me and my group!!