evaluation question 4

How did you use new technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Blogger

This site has helped use a variety of different media's to
demonstrate my project in many ways, such as it lets me post and embed images and screen grabs through my textual post's which makes my posts on my blog seem more visual and interesting when people view it, i can also embed videos through either youtube or vimeo to my blog which i have made this helped me out for posting my final music video which has made it easier for me get my video across, also by having videos on your blog it makes it more exciting for people who view and has also gained me knowledge in using other different media's. The site has also let me set and customize posts or layouts of by blog in a very organized way by letting me put my post in chronological order by date this has helped me so it shows how much progression i have done throughout my blog and also lets people who view my blog make it easier to understand and view each post. Another factor is that each post on my blog can be clearly name with a title and heading and the date it was made, which has been an advantage for me.
 

Quite a fun factor about using blogger is that i can personalize my blog to how i want it to look by changing the background design and how big i want images and posts to be seen which is very helpful and this also means i can link my page design in well to my media product and make the blog have a certain look to it and look the way i want it to look.

corel video studio pro x3

This software is what i have been using to edit and make my final media piece i thought that this has really helped me into learning about the software and how to make your own film.What has helped me out the most with this program is how you edit, you can adjust how long you want each clip to be and you can make the pace quicker or slower, you can use multi-trim to make each clip accurate as to where you want it to end to make the film your making run smoother and look more professional, you can adjust the lighting and add special effects and words over the top of the video to make it seem more attractive visually. overall the layout of corel really helped me as it was very organised and was easy to adjust anything that needed to be. The only issue in which i had was the the scrolling bar which would be quite unpredictable at time and skip to the end of line which is rather annoying when you have a lot of clips on the clip line.
It has also helped me in making my music video by letting my look at the sound waves of the song and so i can put the clips of the video to the beat to make it look more in tune and make the clips look smoother to watch.

Another good thing about Corel is that you can out sound effects over the top of the video and voice overs this means that i could make my video more unique and different, a good example of this is that i used a sound effect over the top of when John leaves in his car in anger and drives off i put a sound effect of a screeching tyre over the top to make the driving off more dramatic in the video.
Another good factor of this software is that when you have finished editing your film you can easily share it to websites such as vimeo where i can share my final video to different audiences and then i can upload it to blogger.

Photoshop

I thought that this software helped me out in many ways because it helped me manipulate some of my images which were used in my ancillary tasks such as the album cover and the magazine advert. I thought that it was easy to use for the basic editing such as changing the brightness or the contrast or changing the light levels or making simple filters to put over the top e.g black and white. But however the more advanced editing such as using the clone tool or the spot healing tool to perfect the image needed a bit more time when editing an image because it meant you would have to be accurate with the brushes and tools.

 Overall though it has helped me produce  some professional looking photos and has gained me knowledge into knowing how to edit pictures better.
overall photoshop has really helped me for my music video as it had helped me to make my ancillary tasks more professional looking and has helped me clear up and defects in my images as you can see in the image above i have changed it by using several of the different  editing tools to make it up to a certain standard in which i want it.

Video cameras, web cams and still cameras

For the majority of my project i have used these types of software to not just help me make my music video but also to make uses of these different devices to make myself familiar with more technology, such as the video camera i have to film my music and several other videos such as my my preliminary task which has helped me develop my filming skills by using different angles and shots it also helps by it being very small so it means it is easy to take places instead of having to carry a big camera around with me. Also by using webcams it has helped me film my story boards and take still images and put them in a quick slideshow so the audience can see every picture from my storyboard individually this helped me alot when i was planning my music video.I have also been able to use cameras to put original images on my blog to show certain features of my music video such as the characters and there clothes or locations and props i think that by doing this it has help me develop my music video in more detail by explaining in depth every aspect of it.
 


Youtube

How youtube has helped me with my blog is that it has helped me gain knowledge form other music videos and how other people present there videos as you can see i have used videos from youtube in my textual analysis and to help me with my conventions post into exploring the ideas of different genres and how different there conventions are and how i can adapt them into my own work and learn from it to make my own music video. I have also used youtube to post my music video form corel so then i can gain more views and publicity from viewers which then makes my video overall more well known and more popular.

I also think that by having my video on youtube it has meant that i have a wider ranged audience worldwide as youtube is a worldwide based site which means that it can gain views from more than just the UK, which is an advantage to us.

conclusion

Overall i think that by using all of these softwares it has helped me into making my music video what it is and helped me into making my ancillary tasks more professional and i think also by using these softwares it has helped me gain knowledge into how the process works into making a music video magazine advert and an album and how much hard work goes into it. I think that i have gained more skills from using these softwares and technologies and could also help into making another movie in the future.