How did you use new media technologies in
- 1. How did you use New Media Technologies in the research, planning, construction and evaluation stages?
- 2. Blogging... - Throughout this project, I have been keeping track of what I have been doing along the way. To do this, I used my colleges VLE (Virtual Learning Environment), on the internet, to blog about the researching, planning, construction and evaluation of my music video.
- 3. Apple Macs... Throughout my music video project, I have continuously used Apple Mac computers and the software on them to create my final video and my Digipak. Throughout this slide show I will go into more detail about the software I used on the Apple Macs. I found this computer difficult to use at first as it was different to average computers that I am used to using. However, the software available on the Macs were incredibly helpful. Programs such as Photoshop, iMovie, In Design etc were all vital when producing my music video and Digipak. These types of programs are available on Macs because of convergence which is the joining of two media products, for example: a computer and video editing software.
- 4. When I began my research, I couldn’t pick a genre which I wanted to After watching copious amounts of use, so, I watched a wide different music videos on YouTube, I variety of different genres decided I wanted my project to be of music videos on the based around a rock genre. YouTube website “YouTube”. really helped me when deciding what genre I wanted to use as it helped me to discover what kind of music videos I enjoyed the most. After finally establishing what genre I was to use, I YouTube is what we describe as continued to watch Rock videos on Web 2.0 and is a social networking website on which Research YouTube so to gain further inspiration. users can upload, view and share videos. A lot of user-generated To gain further ideas for my content is uploaded onto project, I watched some user- YouTube and people all around generated content, on YouTube, the world are able to view it. It’s from students from other schools a great platform for new artists & colleges. This was very helpful and bands to get their music out as it gave me an overview of to the public. what was expected from me.
- 5. As well as researching music videos, I used the internet to research into my ancillary tasks. We were required to create a “Digipak” to coincide with our music videos. Internet website ‘Wikipedia’ was very helpful in helping me To begin with, I was understand what a Digipak was. I clueless about what a discovered that it was a “Digipak” was, so, I used promotional package to help aid the ‘Google’ search engine to research what Research… promotion of a song. I again used Google to look at other Digipak’s to they were and what they gain inspiration for my own work look like. and I also discovered I had some of my own Digipak's which I looked at. As part of the project, we were also briefed to design a magazine advertisement to advertise the Digipak and the music video. Again, Google was my best friend in this task as I looked at a lot of magazine advertisements from a Rock genre using the search engine.
- 6. After I had researched and When deciding where to film my decided on what I was doing for video, I again looked to YouTube to my project, I then began to plan help me distinguish what location how I was going to do it. At this would be suitable to film in so to stage, my blog played an convey my chosen genre. I noticed important role as it helped me that a lot of run-down areas were organise all my ideas so they used in Rock videos so I then began didn’t get all jumbled up in my to think about where I could film. head. I used “Google Earth” to look at areas where I could film. I established that I was going to Planning film in an industrial city area – Leeds, so to connote a serious rock genre which I intended. I didn’t incorporate a lot of digital technologies at the planning stage of my production as I did a lot of planning e.g. storyboards, mind maps, sketches etc with a good old fashioned paper and pencil, as this was the easiest method to use at this stage.
- 7. Once I had established what I was The Lumix camera proved to going to create, I began filming for be have a better video my video. Originally, I intended to quality than the schools use schools Panasonic cameras, video cameras, so I used this however, on the day of filming I camera throughout my realised that I had forgotten to project in both filming my book out a camera from school so video and taking photos for I used my own Lumix digital stills my Digipack. camera. Construction… I had previous practice with using iMovie and editing all my footage After filming all my footage and together and adding in effects so I gathering photos for my project, I found this easy, however, I hadn’t constructed it all together using had much experience using software on the apple macs such as Photoshop so I had to get some iMovie and Photoshop. help from class mates, however, I am now a pro at using Photoshop.
- 8. When creating my Digipack products, I used websites such as “DaFont” and “1001 Free Fonts” to acquire appropriate fonts for my products. I downloaded the fonts onto the computer and I was then able to use them on the appropriate software. Construction… After I had finished the final edit of my video, I was the required to upload it to my blog, so to do this, I again used YouTube to upload my user-generated content. This was simple however I did have to save my video in a particular format so upload was possible.
- 9. After I had finished my project, For my first question, I created a I had to evaluate what I had directors commentary using iMovie. I done on my internet blog. I had to use a voice recorder to record used a number of digital me speaking about my music video, I technologies to present my then uploaded this onto iMovie and work in a clear, aesthetically edited it over the top of my music pleasing way. video. Evaluation… For my second question, I compared my print texts to my music video to Also, for my second analyse how they combined as a question I used word cloud product. I print screened my music generator ‘Tagul’ to create video at certain points and edited in an aesthetically pleasing MS Paint, and put them next to my word summary. print products to compare the two texts.
- 10. For my third evaluation question, I used iMovie yet again to create an audience feedback video. This time, I used one of schools Panasonic video cameras, as I was filming at school, I then uploaded the footage and edited it along with titles to show the questions I was asking my audience clearly. Evaluation… For my fourth question, this here PowerPoint presentation, I have used Microsoft PowerPoint to display clearly how I have used media technologies throughout my work. Also, for this question, I have used Google search engine to look for images to put onto this presentation and I have also used the print screen tool.
- 11. Throughout this project, my understanding of digital technologies has developed. The variety of technologies I have used has been vast and I now have a sound understanding of how to use such products with ease.