QUESTION 4
How did you use new technologies in the construction and research, planning an evaluation stages?
Blogger has helped me with the construction of my media product this year for many reasons. One being that it allows me to browse and look through my class mates work, to see how I can improve my blog and the entries on there.
It also allows me to enter any text, images and videos I want to add, to make my blog look to a better standard and up my grade. Also, you can easily save, and edit any work, so if I think I need to improve any work, it is easy to access and change, this has meant I have had the chance to make my work a higher grade.
Also with Blogger, it has allowed myself to put all my work into one folder and one piece of work, meaning it is therefor easier for people to read, as it's all together and won't get miss-placed.
The layout of Blogger is easy to use and is easy to work around, it has side labels and tabs, meaning you can open up previous work and it wont delete any work that isn't saved. It's especially helpful now, as with the final evaluation, some people, including myself will want it separately to our other entries, so it will be easy to view and will not be with the previous work.
The image below shows that you can edit and personalise your blog, it allows you to add a theme and a background image to your blog, so with my blog, I have decided to have a Media related picture, as it gives the readers and early indication to what my blog is about.
Although it did help me a lot, Blogger did have some negatives, one being that sometimes it was difficult to add images in the areas you wanted too, an example of this being that I could not drag the images to the place on my blog that I wanted too, it sometimes got frustrating as the appearance of my blog could be to a better standard.
Coral Video Studio Pro X3-
This has helped a lot with my final piece of work for this years work, as it has allowed me and my working partner, Charlie Doyle, to edit any footage we have made and it has meant we can easily save our work to it, as we will definitely want to come back to it at some point and make amendments. This software enabled us to edit and put together out entire TV Advert and our other tasks, as it let's us edit the tempo, the colours, the effects, the sound, everything. The pace was a very important tool as it allowed us to edit the length of shots used, especially as we made a TV advert, as one of the conventions is that they have short, quick shots - and lots of them, almost like a 'mini film'.
Coral Video is also very quick and effective, we had no trouble with it and once you get used to the software, you can make an average film, a very good film, as it allows you to crop out any shots you don't want and you can insert another, or you can just simply add affects which it lets you use.
Effects - The effects on this software we very beneficial and helped me a lot to make the advert we did, as you can insert text onto the screen, so this was very useful for the end of the advert, when the shot has the main character, (me) and the football and the energy drink. The text allowed Charlie and I to put the name of the drink on the screen, so it became easier for the viewers to see what was being advertised.
On the other hand, Coral Video Pro was sometimes difficult and confusing. An example of this is because when I first used this software, it wasn't set out for a 'beginner', like myself, as nothing is easily explained or labelled. I had to get a lot of help from Charlie, but once I got used to the programme, it was a lot more simple and I enjoyed using it.
Video and Still Camera
The still camera enabled me to take pictures of the setting, the characters, the facilities, and other parts used in the advert. I needed to do this because we need to give evidence and show what we have been using to create out project. So the still camera allowed me to do this. It has also let me do the animated story board, as I have taken still images of the storyboard and put them together. This has meant it's a higher graded piece of work, instead of just copying a picture of the storyboard on a piece of paper.
The video camera was just as important, as it was used for the entire of our project. As Charlie and I were using it for our advert. Also, it allowed me to interview certain people to use that as evidence and I could them use that footage on my blog, to help answer some of the questions that was listen to do.
Finally, it allowed us to collect together 'Test Footage', which I have put on my blog as an entry, this will help back me up as it will show we have looked as different ideas and tried new things, as the test footage enabled us to take more risks, as we knew we wouldn't be using it at all for our final piece. It was very helpful when it came to using the colour filters for the shots of me, as we wanted to see what colours would look suitable, and what colours wouldn't look right.
Infogr.am
Infogr.am
For my research, I used a website called infogr.am. I used this because it allowed me to display and show my results in a better way. It looks more appealing to people looking through my blog, and the charts are also a lot easier to see results. Also, there was more than one type of charts available, there were many I could choose from, this enabled me to show my research in more than one way.
The site is also easy to use, as its all set out well and structured so anybody can get used to it.
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