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

stages?

Amber Pothecary

What is new new media?• A generic term for the many different forms of electronic communication that are made possible

through the use of computer technology. The term is in relation to "old" media forms, such as print newspapers and magazines, that are static representations of text and graphics. New media includes:

• Web sites• streaming audio and video • chat rooms• e-mail • online communities• Web advertising • DVD and CD-ROM media • virtual reality environments• integration of digital data with the telephone, such as internet telephony • digital cameras• mobile computingUse of the term new media implies that the data communication is happening between desktop and laptop computers and handhelds, such as PDAs, and the media they take data from, such as a compact and floppy disk.

Within my planning and research I only used Prezi for one task. Prezi is a Hungarian software company, producing a cloud-based  presentation software and storytelling tool for presenting ideas on a virtual canvas.The product employs a zooming user interface ,  which allows users to zoom in and out of their presentation media, and allows users to display and navigate through information within a 2.5D or parallex 3D space on the Z-axis.Prezi allowed me to be slightly more creative as it was a lot more visual that many other programs I used, for example powerpoint. PowerPoint is ver simple just allowing you to go over to the next slide, howver with prezi you follow the map along in a avery animated way.

Slideshare is website that allows you to upload PowerPoint's you have made so then can be seen on the website by others using Slideshare. It also allows you to embed you uploaded PowerPoint's to website in my case to blogger. I used Slideshare for a few of my tasks, It allowed me to upload my PowerPoint's to make them accessible to for everyone to see. Without Slideshare I would have had to try and find another website similar on the internet, however I may possibly not be able to find one so wont be able to upload my PowerPoint's ad will have to fine something else to do them one.To the right is an example of one of my tasks uploaded my slideshare, it allows you to make the slide full screen so you can view the slide more clearly.It also allows you to change the pages with the navigation buttons and let you go straight the the slideshare website with the link.

Gmail is a free email system powered by Google, that allows you to send webmail. Emails allow you to send information to people over the internet via the service provided by Google. I used this system to send myself work from home to school, this was an easy and fat way of transporting my work in a safe and secure way. For example I was using a USB stick however it broke causing me to lose some pieces of work. But with the use of web 2.0 emailing as became a more popular form of communication that allowed me send myself my tasks without the need for anything physical such as a USB stick or papers. I also used the use of email to email the record/production company that my artist was signed too and released the song from to ask for there permission whether using there song was acceptable. I sent them an email as it was the quickest and more effective way of contacting them, it was also free. If I had penned them a letter it would of taken longer and been very expensive the record company is based in the USA.

Photoshop

YouTube

YouTube was another service I used this was used for the main part of my assignment, to upload my music video. YouTube allowed me to upload my video for free for the world to watch. Without this I may not of been able to complete my assignment as the task was to make an end product of a music video and the technology of YouTube. YouTube also allowed me to take feedback from people that watched my video as it allows an area for comments to be left so those watching can tell me what they think and I can take this into consideration and improve my video perhaps.

Blogger

Blogger was the website I based my whole assignment around. All my tasks were unloaded to blogger as place for my teachers peers and those examining my work can see. Blogger allowed for my work to be all kept in one place so I didn’t have to use several websites to store my work. It also made it easier as it was all in one place and could be changed whenever by the editing feature given my blogger, that allowed you to change you posts whenever you wanted.

MindMiester MindMeister is an online mind mapping software that allows its users to visualize their thinking. I used MindMeister for task 9 this is a task where I had to map out my initial ideas for my music video. Using this programme online saved me using a pen and paper and drawing out a mind map then having to take a picture and upload it then upload it to my blog. It was much faster as I had to do was complete my mind map using MindMeister online them embed it to my blog using the embed code when I was finished.

Mac Book Pro

Within my work I used the help of my MacBook Pro laptop. This is one of the best and most popular laptops on the market designed and made by the Apple company. This piece off equipment helped me to type up all my tasks and most importantly edit my music video. Without my laptop I wouldn't of been able to purchase and download software such as Premiere Pro; used to edit my music video and Photoshop; used to create my digipak and advert. Premiere Pro is a piece of editing software that I used o edit my music video.