How did you use media technologies in the planning and research, construction and evaluation stages?
- 2. My group created a Facebook page that included all our group members plus the cast and crew of our video.This allowed us to schedule filming dates that were suitable for everyone involved. It also allowed us to share pieces of work and decide who was doing what even when we weren't together.We also posted the rough cuts of our video to our Facebook profiles so that our friends and family could give us their feedback and criticisms.
- 3. We usedYouTube for multiple reasons.We found videos to analyse, past examples of students work, downloaded the song we needed and we posted the several drafts of our video toYouTube.Without the use of YouTube both our research and our product would have been extremely hard to create.
- 4. I used prezi for the first question of my evaluation. Although prezi is incredibly simple to use, my use of it demonstrated my ability to use different types of media. Prezi is very different from your average slide-based presentation tool. You start with a blank page and can add and manipulate content anywhere on the page. Unlike PowerPoint, prezi is very unique, it allows you to display your work in an interesting, unusual way.There is no specific way that you have to arrange your slideshow so each prezi will be completely different.
- 5. Photoshop was used in our project to create both the digipak and the poster.The many tools and features it has to offer helped us to create unusual and unique effects. One advantage of these tools and features is that it enables us to merge pictures together and make them look professional. By using tools such as hue and saturation we were able to give photographs a darker feel to them which correlates with what our niche target audience want.We then used the layer tool to add a Record Label logo and barcode to our digipak. Without this feature our production would not have looked authentic, and there was no other way for us to achieve this finish, other than to use Photoshop.This again gives it that professional look which helps attract consumers.
- 6. We used a digital handheld camera to shoot our video.This allowed us to record from any angle we wanted to as it was portable .The effect of this is that it gave us creative ways to record our video. Typically it's much easier to have a camera that can fit into small places or can be moved over long distances on foot rather than a full rig encumbered by weight and size. the technique of using a handheld camera has been used to heighten tension and give realism which was one of the main aims of our project.
- 7. We used premier elements to edit our film. This was extremely effective as it allowed us to continuously make changes to our video. It was also useful as this program has a number of effects that helped to make our video as unique as possible. Due to the fact that we wanted our video to have an edgy feel to it, the effects that this program provided us with allowed us to achieve this and enabled us to accomplish our desired video.