Evaluation
Question 4 - How did you use new media technologies in
the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Research
During the research part of our task we used blogger to
upload our work on to. From this we had a series of task to complete ranging
from things such as storyboards and shotlists to help us further in the task
when planning. The work we carried out for our research helped guide us to
create a narrative for our movie. We carried out this research so it helped
give us the information and building blocks we needed to carry out the task as
everything we carried out in the research and planning linked to the concepts
we would need when creating our own movie. An example of this is the Britney
spears task that we carried out which gave us a practise and an idea on how to
film our own piece through the different angles we used and how we could
incorporate them into our own piece of work.
The research section of the
coursework was in my opinion that bit I found one of the easiest but as time
went on it got a lot more difficult and complex as the ideas we had were at
some point going to be put into action and if they were not good enough then we
just had to deal with it. YouTube and
Google were prominent when it came to the research section of our coursework as when we were
researching similar artists and other information about our own chosen artist
etc. the web was the best place as I could find out information about our
chosen artist and gather an in depth knowledge of what is expected of our
artist. YouTube was another one we used which enabled us to watch videos from
our chosen artist and see what different generic conventions are used and then
we could take this away with us to use in our music video. It wasn’t about
making a music video that is completely original as this would end up with a
bad result, the key to success for this task was to take ideas from previous
years student videos and ideas from famous videos. Reinventing the wheel wasn’t
something that appealed to me as I am not very imaginative.
Planning
A key program that was useful when we were planning the task
was Photoshop, as this helped create two of the most important features of our
coursework the ‘digipak’ and ‘magazine advert’. This was most effective to use
as it had the specific tools needed to help create these documents to a good
standard. This program seemed to work more effectively compared to the other
program we used briefly which was ‘Paint’. Photoshop provided us with a more
accurate and more professional looking digipak and magazine compared to ‘Paint’
as it did not offer as many editing tools. This allowed me to create a better
quality piece of work than first thought as compared to other programs it
enabled to give it a more attracting look compared to being really basic. Websites were also very useful in regards to
out planning as things such as ‘slide share’ let us view vital information for
our task such as information on digipaks and lip syncing etc., helped have an
impact on our task.
This was the most important section of our task in
terms of having a good quality music video. This was made up of many sections
in our task as the research and planning had a vital role to play in how the
video was constructed. As we were not very organised in these parts of the
task, it was unfortunately quite disorganised for many parts. This was because
the raw footage initially shot for our final product was not filmed correctly
as the camera was very shaky and some sections were not filmed. This therefore meant
we had to re film out footage to make sure it matched roughly our plan for the
video. This led on to further problems when constructing the footage as our
initial actor could not reshoot the footage therefore we had to use another
actor instead to fill the role and shoot. We then produced better quality
footage which we filmed on a Panasonic HD camera, and a tripod to keep the
shots steady. This produced much better
quality footage than before as the shots were steady and overall the quality of
the acting was much better and the new actor was more professional and
compliant. This footage then allowed us to upload the scenes onto the computer
on a format where we could edit what we had shot using IMovie.
This moved
onto another piece of media equipment we used which was the ‘IMac’ where we
uploaded our video footage to edit on. This was an effective computer to let us
edit on as the ‘IMacs’ include the programme ‘IMovie’ which was the programme
we used to edit the footage. This meant we could make our music video look more
professional as the school provided us with this high standard equipment to
use. I think this was the best programme we could have used to edit our forage
as it had a number of different functions and tools that enabled us to adapt
the video, as well as being in my opinion easier to use than Final Cut express.
Evaluation
In my evaluation I experimented
with a range of different programs such as final cut express and iMovie to
looks at ways of filming my own commentary and filming myself evaluating my
media product. Furthermore, I attempted to create a Prezi to evaluate my media
product as it seemed to be a easy program to use, as I had previously used it
in a piece of media coursework last year. In addition to this the only product
I ended up actually using for my evaluation was ‘Blogger’. This was split up into 2 accounts and
individual blog and a group blog. These accounts were made so that the public
could see, which enabled my teacher to view my posts and see if all the
necessary work set was being completed. As there were 2 of us within the group,
the group blog was less work to do as it was split between both of us. Blogger
was what I used to all my evaluation posts but other programs could have been
used to make it more effective such as doing a voice over on iMovie or a Prezi.
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