Thursday, 29 March 2012

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

Hardware, Software and Websites

AS:

Preliminary Task
iMac
Diagetic sound; chair moving, talking, door closing, general background noise.
Handheld camera with tape.
YouTube- used to upload preliminary task.
Blogger- used to publish preliminary task.
Opening 2 minutes of a Thriller: Isolation
iMac
Garageband- used to cut the song and loop the instrumental.
iMovie- used for editing the movie
Handheld camera with tape.
Tripod.
Non Diagetic sound- music soundtrack; “Dance With The Devil”- Immortal Technique.
YouTube- used to upload opening 2 minutes and gather audience response.
Blogger- used to publish opening 2 minutes.
Facebook- used to promote and distribute movie to gather audience response.
A2:
Music Video Promo: “Don’t F*** With Me”- Asylum
iMac
iMovie- used to edit video.
Monopod for steady still  shots, moving shots, and high angle and low angle shots.
Final Cut Pro- used to edit movie (to begin with, then I moved on to iMovie).
YouTube- used to upload video and distribute to gather audience response.
Facebook- used to gather audience response.
Ancillary Task: Magazine advert and Digipak
iMac
Photoshop- used to create advert and digipak.
Facebook- used to store images and gather audience response.




What skills have I learnt?
Use iMovie
Use Final Cut Pro
How to edit a film
How to edit a music video
Use various internet sites to promote and distribute my work to get audience responses.
How to work in groups
How to organise film shoots and filming sessions
How to organise actors
In my A2 I learnt how to work effectively on my own
I also learnt how to organise my time effectively 
I also learnt how to use Photoshop to create my advert and digipak

Research And Planning:



In the research and planning stages of my A2 product, I used websites like YouTube to search and gather examples of music videos in my chosen genre, and advantage of using websites like this is that there is a vast number of videos all in one place and so this means i could carry out my research quickly and use lots of examples to back up my findings.
I also used blogging sites that blogged about my chosen genre to gather information about the genre. Using a blogging site aided me becasue the research had already been done and this greatly reduced the amount of time i had to spend looking for information.
I also used publishing sites like Blogger to upload my work all in one place. I had to use Word, PowerPoint, SlideShare and Scribd. to upload all my work to Blogger.


Construction:
For the filming of my music video promo, i used a Panasonic camera, which records in HD and allowed me to upload my video in a decent quality, it also used a memory card which allowed me to store more footage and do more filming in each filming session. Along with the camera i used a monopod to acheive steady stationary shots, moving shots, high and low angle shots i prefered to use the monopod because it allowed me to move AND keep the camera steady, whereas a tripod would only have given me steady stationary shots, and this was essential because a large majority of the shots in my video are moving shots. I also used editing software such as iMovie and Final Cut Pro to acheive smooth and effective editing.


In the production of my digipak i used Photoshop to create the different panles, using photos i had downloaded from Facebook and i used Photoshop again to create the magazine advert.


Evaluation:
I used social sites such as Facebook and YouTube to collect audience responses, using technology helped me because it allowed me to gather and instant response, otherwise i would have had to go out and ask people by hand- which would have taken longer and therefore i would have had fewer responses.
I used document publishing programs like Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Word to help create the documents. Also i used iMovie to create a video of me answering the evaluation questions and Garageband to create a podcast of me talking about one of the questions.

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