EVALUATION- MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES

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

      While researching, planning and especially the construction during our project we had to adapt and develop our skills using different media technologies. our main use of media technology is using blogger to upload all of our research, planning, construction and finally evaluation showing how we developed to get to our final piece and the process of our project. As we also used blogger for our AS project i already had a very good understanding of how to use it which made it easier as i didn't have to learn and adapt before using it which i feel is the same for a lot of the other media technologies that i have used during this project.

      During the researching we used YouTube a lot to see other students music video, compare different genres and get a better idea of the codes and conventions of our chosen genre so that we have a better understanding of what we needed to include in our own media products and music video. We also used prezi and photo peach to present some of our work. i had previously used prezi and slide rocket during my AS project but hadn't used photo peach so i had to learn and develop my skills. It was easy to use and i feel it was an effective and more interesting way to present our work.

      While creating our products we created a website, twitter page and facebook page to make our band look more realist so we could advertise our album and up and coming concerts. As we all use social media we had a good idea of how it worked and therefore could make a realist and effective social media accounts for our band 'The New Age'. But to make it look more realist we changed certain things on the facebook and twitter page e.g the amount of followers and tweets to make it look more realist and adding a verified account sign to make the band seem famous and popular therefore making the pages look more realist. To add this we used photoshop, which we had also use previously so had an understanding of how to use it. We also used Photoshop to create the album and poster so it was a program that really helped us throughout the making of our product

      Although I knew how to use most of the media technologies i had develop my skills in certain areas and mainly in the construction of our video as we used Sony Vegas Pro that i had never used before to edit our music video to create a final piece. At the start of editing our music video i found it very difficult to use and quite confusing. Although i feel it is quite difficult to use i feel i got a lot better throughout, and also developed my skills a lot by doing so. i think that if i came to using this program again i would find it easier as i now have a better understanding of how to use it and get the most out of it. Sony Vegas Pro helped us to layer effects over our video so that the quality of the filming looked more effective and also helped to make the story line show that she was in his life in the past by using an old vintage effect. It also allowed us to cut the shots to fit in with the video and music and also the lip syncing look effective and in time with the actual song.