Evaluation Question 4

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

During the construction of the music video, I used many different media technologies to create this project. One of the first many software that I had to use for the media project was the editing software. The editing software was called Adobe Premiere. At first I was not familiar with this software as it was new on the school computers due to the robbery, new software had to be installed onto the new macs. When I looked into the software, I realized the layout of the software was very similar compared to the Final Cut that I had used the previous year. After a day or two, I managed to get the hang of the editing software and I think that it's played a big part of the success of completing my music video.

Creating the digipack was another thing that I had to do when using media techologies. When creating the digipack, I created a template of the digi pack on Microsoft word just using basic shapes and word art and to complete the digipack, I pulled pictures from different shots that I had taken during shooting the scenes for my music video and then imported them into paint and edited the picture adding text and so on. I found this quite easy to use. Another thing that helped me while creating the digi pack was the digital camera that I used. It was a samsung 12 megapixel camera which me and my group have shared before for the past year and it was always produced good quality pictures for certain media work. I had to take the pictures using this camera and then transfer them onto the pc via usb before editing for my digi pack.

When creating my website, there were some technologies that I had to use. I created my website using Wix. Wix is a webdevelopment site that allows you to make your own website off their templates. To start off with I found it quite difficult making things neat on the website but I started to get the hang of the website and adding the pictures and the text onto the right pages. When creating my website, I had to make pages and create certain pages such as promotion and galleries. I found the software for the web development quite tricky to start off with but it managed to get a hold of it in the end.

When filming the music video, me and my group had to use different types of media techologies. Firstly, we had to use a video camera to film the footage. The video camera that I had to use this year compared to last year was completely different. It was a lot larger and seemed to be used for more professional use. The camera that I had to use for filming the music video was a Sony HVR-HD 1000E video cam corder. I found it interesting when using the camera and compared to the last year camera that I used, I found it more difficult to hold as it had to be held on the shoulder while filming and for the lower shots of the filming, it was a lot harder. My group also had to use a tripod for the still shots which was easy to use.

When it came to researching, there was many ways that I could research. Of course, the main way of conducting my research for my music video was using the Internet. Because I am able to access the Internet in most places I go, I found it very easy to carry out research. One of the main things that I used to carry out my research was use search engines and search for particular things that I wanted to find out. The main search engine that I used to carry out my research was www.google.co.uk. I have always had success with using Google in the past for finding out information quickly. This can be from forums to general information/wiki.

There were advantages and disadvantages when it came to the technologies when creating the music video. The advantages when filming the music video was the quality of the camera. Because the camera was exspensive, this meant that the quality of the shots were good but the disadvantage with the camera was that it was a big camera. Therefore, it was hard to make different shots at lower and higher angles. This reduced the amount of shots that were able to be taken when filming the music video.