Media question for 4

how did you use media technologies in the construction and research ,planning and evaluation stages ?

Intro

• For are A2 media we did Ben Howard “keep your head up “ this song was in the folk pop genre and this slide share is going to be the ways in witch we used the technologies in are planning ,research, construction, and evaluation .

Planning • Before we have even started looking at

research we made a blog on the site blogger in witch to gain store and show are information that we gathered.

• The advantages to using the site is the amount of content you can show through this site, you are able to embed your YouTube clips from your channel, slide shares a power point programme, and link it to all social networking site and your Gmail accounts

• By having this wide range of content that you can put on your blog and being able to link it to all of your other accounts it made it more easier to upload and share are product in a educational term and to showcase are product to are audiences

Research

• Whilst in are research stages we looked at various web site in order to gain information on are genre, artist ,and conventions of are product .

• I felt that the biggest gain and use of technologies was using social networks such as twitter and Facebook to helps us understand are, audiences , age range, sex and likes in the folk pop genre.

• By doing this we discovered are age range that was 15 to 27 year olds , are audience is a mixed sex audiences, its not something that is man or female dominated, and also the convections of using nature as a main theme throughout the genre came out really clear .

• We then used YouTube to look at similar products in are genre witch helped us confirm what we had already researched , but gave us new thoughts and inspiration to how we wanted are product to look like , YouTube is so valuable in these early stages because of the wide range of content that was available to us.

story bored

• We had now got to the stage in witch that we had seen the convections and what are products should look like, so we then moved on to creating story board the soft ware we decided to use was pixtor.

Pixtor

• Pixtor allowed us to make are story board with a cartoon theme keeping in mind all the different types of shots

• we would use also changeable settings and characters to give it a really good looking feel to it that was at a professional standard story bored .

• I enjoyed using this software because it was very quick and detailed in the way that it made are product come alive .

Camera

• The camera we were using for are production was a Nikon d5100 a good DLSR with a 18to 50 mm lens witch allowed us to have mid shots with the character in focus and the background out of focus and also vice a versa .

• This was a very good camera that had good frames per second for filming and was also portable for the different location's that we did film in as many off them were on top off cliffs .

Cons

• The main issue I had with that camera and all DLSR are two things .

• 1 zooming is manual and by hand witch can make those zooms look very shaky and unprofessional .

• 2 with DLSR cameras they have very poor sound witch makes it very difficult to sink your performance shots to your sound of the track .

• Evan with detachable boom micks wind was always an issue and a points became a burden

YouTube

• YouTube has always been about sharing your videos with a wide audience and that is what we did by using it , it made showing are video a lot easier and gave us chances to have feed back in the comments boxes below using parts of test footage and actually footage we were able to see what worked and didn't work with are audiences opinion .

Facebook

• We also needed more ways of getting feed back so by using Facebook a page in witch to show the artists to the fans and to gain various amounts of feedback that made this feed back qualitative .

Web site wix

• Using Wix I created a free website to help promote and make a bigger fan base for my artists, the reason why Wixs has been so useful is the level of professional quality standard to showcase my work , and again the way of adapting and use all different forms of content on the web site such as .

• Video • Pictures • Tour Dates • Bios• Using this made it very easy for me to showcase my

artist in the best possible light .

My photo shop cs6

• With my photo shop I used it to create my Digipack again this is another form of software that has a very high quality to the pictures that it creates

• Effects I used were things like Colour tint and changing the lighting on my photos

• also using Black and white tool was used in a lot of my test Digi packs to play around with the effects and also using the mask tall to keep original colour of the image at times .

Adobe premier pro 5

• Using adobe is one of the best soft wares to get a high quality standard finish to are product.

• The way we used this soft ware was in things such as• Cutting from point to point with great ease • Importing • Photos• Sound was very essay to use and we quickly were able to

upload and sync are track to are video .• Importing movies witch would get uploaded on a daily

basses witch made it essay to see and use the footage we got

• Also using effects on the programme such as the dissolve effect that we used at the end scenes.

• by having access to this soft ware these effects look neat and blended with are video and they stood out because they blended into the story instead of because they looked bad .

Evaluation

Prezi

• Using prezi is an better designs than on PowerPoint with the ability to use all forms of media on it such as

• Video • Pictures • Links to websites • By using this way of showing my work it essay to

show all content that is relevant to what imsaying again it’s a highly used as a professional way of showing my answers

Slide share

• is a programme in witch you can embed power points on line to show the use of text with images instead of writing massive blog posts .

• Its also useful because with slide shares embed code I can up load it to prezi and my blog

Concluding

• Most of the technologies is all to a high professional standard by using that soft ware .

• And I felt that by using soft ware that I could use all forms of mix media in it , I felt showed the rich content in witch I devised my work into .