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Evaluation Question 4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
During the research
and planning stages I used a number of different programmes and websites
RESEARCH & PLANNING {SOCIAL MEDIA}
- Whatsapp,
SurveyMonkey & iMessage
Throughout
the research and planning process of my music video and ancillary texts, I was
able to conduct most of research data through social media such as Whatsapp and
iMessage. Using Whatsapp and iMessage, I was able to ask a wider range of
people for their opinions, both qualitative and quantitative replies. What I
liked about using Whatsapp was that people could send their replies in text
format as well as audio. I was also able to use SurveyMonkey, a questionnaire
creation website, upload my questionnaire onto this website and then use
Whatsapp amongst other social media format to send the link to people to
answer.
- Instagram
When it came
to planning the mise-en-scene for my artist, I tried to link in the current
trends in today’s society as well as Hip Hop/R&B industry conventions. I
found out that in most Hip Hop/R&B music videos, artist commonly wore
streetwear cloths, and so I was able to include ‘#streetwear’ into the search
engine on Instagram. Instagram then gave me up to date result as to what people
typically like as streetwear. Through this research conducted on Instagram, I
was then able to plan an outfit which I thought would be suitable for both the
audience’s reference as well as Hip Hop/R&B mise-en-scene conventions.
- Blogger
Blogger was
the main media platform with I had used to collect and keep all of my research
and planning in one place. Using blogger I was able to constantly go back on
previous posts, and continue with my ideas. The main ways in which I used
Blogger, was by creating the titles in which I wanted the posts to go under.
This then gave me an idea and guideline as to what I had to do next in terms of
further research and planning.
- Animated
Presentations & Gifs
Although it
was a huge part of my research and planning process, I was able to animated
presentations as well as gifs of certain pictures I had taken in order to try
and present my ideas clearer. For example for my first idea of my digipak
panel, I wanted to try and use the motion blur as inspiration and interpret
this effect. However I wasn’t able to explain it as much as I could and so I
decided to create a Gifs to illustrate my idea.
- Google
& YouTube
The most
basic and obvious media platform which I mainly used to conduct most of my
research would be Google. Through the use of Google, I was able o find a range
of website in which to help me. This included the many theories of music
videos, as well as previous research on R&B/Hip Hop media products.
During the
constructions stages I was also able to use a range of technologies and
equipment
CONSTRUCTION
- iPhone
& Selfie Stick
Whilst
filming my music video I decided to use my iPhone, the reason for this was I
was thinking in the long term. Since after I thought I had filmed everything
that was needed for my music video, I had to refill some
scenes as well as the environment where I had filmed the music video at least
twice. Using my iPhone, allowed me to have full access to the camera at all
times.
iMovie
& Adobe Premiere
In order to create the music video as well as the ancillary texts I had to produce. From using these two types of media technologies I was able to see exactly where certain clips of y music video was as well as the different transitions that I would be able to use.
In order to create the music video as well as the ancillary texts I had to produce. From using these two types of media technologies I was able to see exactly where certain clips of y music video was as well as the different transitions that I would be able to use.
- Screen
Recorder {APPLE MAC}, YouTube {WEB 2.0}
Using the
screen recorder on my apple Mac, I was able to recorder certain editing filters
or even how I was able to blur the inside of the digipak panel for future help
to me. Along with the use of Web 2.0 sites such as YouTube, I would then be
able to sometimes upload the screen records and then insert a voice over. From
there I could create a video show the construction path of my final music
video, promotional poster and digipak.
Photoshop
Being able to
use the digital photo manipulation helped me greatly. A clear example of this
would be when i decided to make changes to the background of my Promotional
Poster. I was then able to insert the 2 backgrounds onto Photoshop and was
giving the tolls to cut out certain areas which I didn’t want. When it came to
choosing a simple san serif font for most of the text seen on the digipack and promotional
poster, I was told that Photoshop had many. This therefore allowed me to also
use this software for its text fonts that are available.
To present my evaluation,
I also decided to use many media platforms
In order to
make my evaluation questions appealing and attractive I decided to use
different media presentation platforms for each question. I thought this would
not only show that I am able to use a range of media platforms, but also allow
me to demonstrate my knowledge of how effective media can be when trying to
present any piece of work.
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