Technologies question
- 1. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Evaluation
- 2. Technologies used • Research - Survey Monkey Used to create quantitative audience research in the form of a survey - Facebook Also used for the quantitative audience research - YouTube Allowed us to watch music videos for free in lesson time to analyse them - HD Video SLR (canon 600v) Used to film interviews for qualitative audience research - Microsoft PowerPoint Used to display research in one place - Slideshare.com Used to get PowerPoint presentations onto blog
- 3. Technologies used • Planning - Microsoft PowerPoint - Scanner – This was used to get the drawn storyboards into digital form to be able to display them on my blog
- 4. Technologies Used • Construction - Photoshop - Final Cut Pro - HD Video SLR - Microsoft PowerPoint • Evaluation - Microsoft PowerPoint
- 5. Photoshop The advantages of using Photoshop especially in the production stage are that Photoshop uses a layer system that allows for building products up which allows for greater experimentation while making the product because I could change one element of the product without affecting the rest of the product for example while making the front cover of the album I was able to erase parts of the title to give it a cracked effect and colour it without affecting the images below I was able to change the logo from that to that without altering the images below, something that would have been hard to avoid without Photoshop
- 6. Final cut pro Final cut pro allowed us to edit easily and allowed us to do things easier than it would years ago for example the beginning of the video when it has the flashback that would have been harder to do years ago
- 7. Social Media Social media helped us in all stages of our coursework because we used it to get people to take our audience research survey we also used blogger to host all stages of our coursework Vimeo has been used to host our music video so we can get feedback and easily get the link to it on our blog also the same thing applies to our qualitative audience research interviews. We also used YouTube to research existing videos by Pendulum in order to plan for our music video However we had problems with YouTube at first when uploading our music video so we had to use the video hosting site Vimeo instead.
- 8. PowerPoint SlideShare & Surveymonkey.com Microsoft PowerPoint was what I used to create my evaluation, present my research and also in my planning to present my storyboards SlideShare allowed us to put PowerPoint presentations onto the internet and onto blogger easier which is a great help because we are not bound to one format and can use the most comfortable format SurveyMonkey.com made creating and distributing a questionnaire easier because we would have had to write it and hand it out physically instead of digitally
- 9. HD Video SLR (canon 600v) Helped because they are easy to use and compatible with computers so it easy to get pictures onto PhotoShop to edit them