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Question 4 media evaluation

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Becky Lomas used various media technologies in her construction and research, planning, and evaluation stages of her music video project. She used Blogger to document her ongoing work and share feedback. Prezi was utilized for music video research and to demonstrate her knowledge of theories. YouTube was key for researching other music videos and planning conventions. Photoshop and Illustrator were employed to create graphics for her digipak, website, and merchandise. Premier Pro was essential for editing footage, sound, and creating the split-screen effect. Hardware included a DSLR camera, tripod, SD cards, and GoPro.

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H O W D I D Y O U U S E M E D I A T E C H N O L O G I E S I N T H E C O N S T R U C T I O N A N D R E S E A R C H , P L A N N I N G A N D E V A L U A T I O N S T A G E S ? Q ) 4 B E C K Y L O M A S
BLOGGER • Blogger was one of my main platforms in which I was able to show my ongoing production and explain my work. I used my blog to show my feedback from my treatment and target audience website. I used fun GIFs to link to my group blog. I also put my Prezi's and slideshows on blogger to. To help organise all my work on blogger I put a space bar on the side of the blog so that you are able to search for work, each piece of work is put into a category and you are able to see all of my research or planning for example. Social Platforms/Software
PREZI • Prezi was used for a lot of my research. I used it to show my knowledge of theories, style and techniques of a music video I also used it for part of my Music video research, Prezi's help to you to analyse demonstrate your range of knowledge on specific areas. The step by step easy transitions help to shows the developed for of my products and helps to layout information with different boxes to make it more clear and understanding.
YOUTUBE • YouTube played a big part when it came to research and also planning. When creating our final ideas for our music video we used YouTube to watch old and modern music videos and got to see the different narratives and styles that we could potentially use. During this time we came across a music video that was split screen. The song showed two different lives one poor and another rich. After seeing this and choosing our song we decided that split screen would be perfect especially as our song is about suicide, we wanted to create a video that tells a story from to different views and split screen was perfect for this. • YouTube also provide us with better understand of our chosen genre R&B and helped us to see what we needed to include in order for our video to fit the right conventions of an R&B music video. In terms of how YouTube was usual in more a general and technical sense YouTube allowed us to upload videos that we created e.g. for research and allowed us to embed these and put them on our blogs.
PHOTOSHOP & ILLUSTRATOR • Photoshop Photoshop was a key part of construction for my ancillary products . I used Photoshop to create my Digipak and used it to develop the images I took of my artist in order to look more professional. In terms of my digipak I new that I wanted it to be red because of the title Red history, by using Photoshop I was able to add an overlay texture onto my photos to make it look more professional and unique. Whereas for my photos I was able to change the colour of each photo by adding hue on each. Doing this improved my pictures and made my website look more professional and aesthetically pleasing. I also used Photoshop to create my merchandise logo by creating shapes with the pen tool and created an abstract version of a king on a playing card. Doing this in Photoshop aloud me also to use the magic wand tool to get rid of any white background that may appear when putting it onto my Clothing for merchandise. Both of these skills I was able to learn recently vastly improving my Photoshop skills from last year, I now feel confident in photoshop. • Illustrator Illustrator was a software that I didn’t use as much last year and was quite new to me. Illustrator is often used to create logos, graphs and illustrations etc. I used illustrator to create my production logo, that I placed on my website and digipak. Illustrator was also where I found the font for my Digipak and website, I wanted a consistent font throughout all the products. I also feel that illustrator is more easier when using images as the software itself fs used to create vector images. However I found some difficulties when it came to creating logo, with research on tutorials and practise I was still able to create a successful and strong logo design. Software
PREMIER PRO • Premier pro was the most essential piece of software when creating my music video. On premier pro I was able to edit the sound and footage. One of the main things that was crucial to editing was the split screen. Premier pro aloud us to place two different pieces of footage next to each other but not touching to create the black line effect between the two videos. Premier pro also aloud us to change the colour grading on each clip by making it look more soft and fitting in with our R&B genre. We also edited the sound on premier pro by adding a fade to our music at the end as we did not need the whole of the song. This was a decision that had to be made quickly but still look professional.
HARDWARE • The main camera we used for our filming was a DSLR we also rented out a tripod. We had a few problems when using the SD cards we had to make sure that we took out more than one card with us because we kept running out of space on the cards. We also has a few problems when filming with the GoPro, we found an issue in terms of settings we needed to make sure that we got rid of the Highlight tag. For the first time we used a GoPro we filmed underwater and in the shower and overall filming was very effective.

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Question 4 media evaluation

  • 1. H O W D I D Y O U U S E M E D I A T E C H N O L O G I E S I N T H E C O N S T R U C T I O N A N D R E S E A R C H , P L A N N I N G A N D E V A L U A T I O N S T A G E S ? Q ) 4 B E C K Y L O M A S
  • 2. BLOGGER • Blogger was one of my main platforms in which I was able to show my ongoing production and explain my work. I used my blog to show my feedback from my treatment and target audience website. I used fun GIFs to link to my group blog. I also put my Prezi's and slideshows on blogger to. To help organise all my work on blogger I put a space bar on the side of the blog so that you are able to search for work, each piece of work is put into a category and you are able to see all of my research or planning for example. Social Platforms/Software
  • 3. PREZI • Prezi was used for a lot of my research. I used it to show my knowledge of theories, style and techniques of a music video I also used it for part of my Music video research, Prezi's help to you to analyse demonstrate your range of knowledge on specific areas. The step by step easy transitions help to shows the developed for of my products and helps to layout information with different boxes to make it more clear and understanding.
  • 4. YOUTUBE • YouTube played a big part when it came to research and also planning. When creating our final ideas for our music video we used YouTube to watch old and modern music videos and got to see the different narratives and styles that we could potentially use. During this time we came across a music video that was split screen. The song showed two different lives one poor and another rich. After seeing this and choosing our song we decided that split screen would be perfect especially as our song is about suicide, we wanted to create a video that tells a story from to different views and split screen was perfect for this. • YouTube also provide us with better understand of our chosen genre R&B and helped us to see what we needed to include in order for our video to fit the right conventions of an R&B music video. In terms of how YouTube was usual in more a general and technical sense YouTube allowed us to upload videos that we created e.g. for research and allowed us to embed these and put them on our blogs.
  • 5. PHOTOSHOP & ILLUSTRATOR • Photoshop Photoshop was a key part of construction for my ancillary products . I used Photoshop to create my Digipak and used it to develop the images I took of my artist in order to look more professional. In terms of my digipak I new that I wanted it to be red because of the title Red history, by using Photoshop I was able to add an overlay texture onto my photos to make it look more professional and unique. Whereas for my photos I was able to change the colour of each photo by adding hue on each. Doing this improved my pictures and made my website look more professional and aesthetically pleasing. I also used Photoshop to create my merchandise logo by creating shapes with the pen tool and created an abstract version of a king on a playing card. Doing this in Photoshop aloud me also to use the magic wand tool to get rid of any white background that may appear when putting it onto my Clothing for merchandise. Both of these skills I was able to learn recently vastly improving my Photoshop skills from last year, I now feel confident in photoshop. • Illustrator Illustrator was a software that I didn’t use as much last year and was quite new to me. Illustrator is often used to create logos, graphs and illustrations etc. I used illustrator to create my production logo, that I placed on my website and digipak. Illustrator was also where I found the font for my Digipak and website, I wanted a consistent font throughout all the products. I also feel that illustrator is more easier when using images as the software itself fs used to create vector images. However I found some difficulties when it came to creating logo, with research on tutorials and practise I was still able to create a successful and strong logo design. Software
  • 6. PREMIER PRO • Premier pro was the most essential piece of software when creating my music video. On premier pro I was able to edit the sound and footage. One of the main things that was crucial to editing was the split screen. Premier pro aloud us to place two different pieces of footage next to each other but not touching to create the black line effect between the two videos. Premier pro also aloud us to change the colour grading on each clip by making it look more soft and fitting in with our R&B genre. We also edited the sound on premier pro by adding a fade to our music at the end as we did not need the whole of the song. This was a decision that had to be made quickly but still look professional.
  • 7. HARDWARE • The main camera we used for our filming was a DSLR we also rented out a tripod. We had a few problems when using the SD cards we had to make sure that we took out more than one card with us because we kept running out of space on the cards. We also has a few problems when filming with the GoPro, we found an issue in terms of settings we needed to make sure that we got rid of the Highlight tag. For the first time we used a GoPro we filmed underwater and in the shower and overall filming was very effective.