Evaluation - Question 4

THIS QUESTION WAS COMPLETED BY ALL OF OUR GROUP

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

Ella-Survey Monkey

Est-Final Cut 10

Anna-Photoshop

Ella-Equipment

Est-Blogger

Anna-YouTube

Me: 

To edit our Digipak and Advert we used Adobe Photoshop. This allowed us to use a wide range of effects and techniques to make our Advert and Digipak seem very professional. We mainly used Photoshop one we had planned and researched both of the products, so we mainly used it in the production stage of our video. If we didn't use photoshop to create the Digipak and Advert we think that the outcomes would not of been as strong and may have lacked a professional, finished look. 

We used YouTube to research music videos to influence our ideas. So it was an essential technology to use in the initial research and planning stage. Then after we had created our first rough cut, we then uploaded it to YouTube. This therefore allowed us to show our class easily and then get feedback from them.

Ella:

Survey Monkey allowed us to gather information on what our video should include, for example how much narrative there should be in comparison to performance. We were able to share the survey to a wide target audience from being able to share the link on a social media website which was Facebook. 

We used a range of equipment to achieve the highest quality music video and product. We used a DSLR which enabled us to create high quality shots with strong depths of field. This also allowed us to have high quality images for our digipak. The tripod was used in the performance shots to create shots that conformed to pop music video conventions. At other times we didn't use a tripod to create a non static image that fitted with the flow of the music. 

Esther:

Final Cut 10 was the software that we used to edit and produce our final music video including the rough cut. It allowed us to explore various features such as slo motion which we used throughout the music video. It also allowed us to colour correct any shots which matched the indie/pop convention, it helped us also continue the effective continuity. As apposed to when we edited last year, editing was a lot easier with using the updated software. 

Blogger has allowed us to document our progress and development of our music video and digipak. We have been able to show the progression of our work through posts about editing  research and planning. It has also allowed us to incorporate YouTube videos, powerpoint presentations and surveys which enabled us to have all of the technologies in one place. 

(This script will be a voiceover on our video)