Draft Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Question 4

I have used many technologies throughout the researching and planning parts  of my coursework. I have had to find ways to help present my ideas and inspirations for my own music video.  To do this I used blogger as this was a way for me to keep myself organised with my ideas and for my teachers to see what sort of ideas I had in mind. It was also a good way for me and Katie so share our ideas together. For the inspiration for our video, I used mainly ‘YouTube’ as this has most music videos on it. I then used ‘Tube Chop’ to highlight key parts of the videos that inspired me and commented on them through the blog. It also made it easier for me to show what parts of the videos I wanted to use or copy into my own. We also set up a twitter account for our band during the research and planning process to try and create an audience for our band. When pitching our original ideas to the rest of the class to get some audience feedback we used animoto. This was an effective way of presenting our initial ideas.

When searching for inspiration and ideas for the digipack and magazine advert I found it more difficult. I could only really find posters for albums and album covers rather than digipack’s. So I overcame this by using ‘Bing’ or ‘Google’ to search for covers and adverts that I could find. I also looked at actual digipack’s that I borrowed from people or found at home. I created these ancillary texts using Photoshop. I used my CS5 version that I had on my home computer as I found it easier than the schools and it had more editing options so I could create a better product.

We used windows movie maker and a still camera to make our animatic. This was an easy way for us to show our storyboard with the music and appropriate timings against it to help us gain a better idea of if it would work when we shot the real thing.

For filming we used a still camera for the draft. We thought this was a good idea because it was a high quality camera. However, after doing the draft we realised we needed to change this as some shots were out of focus, for example, zooming. Therefore, on the final version and when we reshot we used a digital camera for moving images that we found much easier to use and the final outcome once edited had a much more professional look to it.

During the editing process for our draft video we used Premiere Pro CS3 and we found it fairly easy to use but parts of it were difficult. However on the final version we decided to use a programme called Sony Vegas for the editing we found it hard to use at first as we were used to the other programme; however once we had got used to it we found it much easier to use and to edit our video.

When presenting my research and ideas, final pieces and evaluation along with many other things on the blog, I mainly used scribd, slideshare, YouTube, Prezi or just the blogger settings to present the work I and done.

Overall, I used media technologies in as many ways as I felt I could have to present and create my work during this coursework process.