Danny Laws

A2 Media Studies

4. How did you use new media technologies

in the construction and research, planning

and evaluation stages

THE EVALUATION..

During the course of this project, we’ve had some

enjoyable and some really stressful moments

when using different technologies to make our

music video, some technologies software we

have come across before and used so that’s

wasn’t so bad but still stressful as maybe we

haven't used it in a while etc.

However there were some software’s that we

never experience before which made life during

this project very stressful but in a whole it was a

good experience.

INTRODUCTION

During the course of this project, We have used many different programs, however the two main and most important programs we used was Photoshop and Final Cut Pro x without these two software's we wouldn’t of been able to do this project at all.

Photoshop: Photoshop was key and really important to our coursework as it helped us make our magazine advert and our digipak, even we didn’t use Photoshop our magazine and digipak wouldn’t be a nearly as good. Using Photoshop wasn’t as hard because we have experience using this software before.

Final Cut Pro x: This is the most important software we used because this is where we put all our footage together to make our music video, this helped us to put the footage and the music together, cut and edit the clips that we took. This was a very stressful software to use as we never used this before the start of the project so this was completely new to use which made things harder.

Programs

Cannon Powershot SX40 HS- This camera at first was hard to use, as

it didn’t first record properly however we got used to it and it become

vital to our work, I believe this camera helped us to gain great shots for

our music video.

Tripod- This helped us to keep the camera completely still so we could

get perfected shots and angels.

Apple Mac- This hardware was very new to me because before I never

experience using the apples mac, everything about it was different to a

normal computer so before we could even use the programs on the

mac, we had to get used to the mac itself.

Hardware Used

The websites that we used to gain feedback was Facebook and

YouTube as these two are leading social network sites that we could

gain a lot of feedback from as there are many friends as well random

people on these sites, they were easy to upload footage and images on

as well used this before.

Also we used these programs as part of our research and planning, as

well had to see people opinion on genres and types of music videos so

we carried out a questionnaire so the best way to do this we felt was to

put it on Facebook.

Websites Used For Feedback

All of the media technologies that I have mentioned has really played a

vital role in helping me and the group to constructed our research and

planning as well as different stages as without them in my opinion this

project wouldn’t be successful at all, the reason for this being that the

software and the hardware are all high quality in their own way so by

using high quality technologies as well as personal skills this would

contribute to a high quality music video, digipak and magazine advert.

I also felt this has made our personal skills better and made our ideas

and better as we had more options to pick from and better effects for our

video for an example, so by having more options and more ideas to

choose from we had a much better video than we maybe would have

had in ‘AS Media’ as we had better media technologies.

How did this all help us?