Evaluation (Part 4)

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

Technologies used in my coursework



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Technologies used in my main construction;

To begin with I had to find a way to download the song I needed, I did this using a software called Audacity. This allowed me to download the song. It does this by playing the song on YouTube and recording it on the song.

I used Final Cut Pro for my main construction, this enabled me to get my shots from the camera straight to the software through the ‘Log and Capture’ tool. The log and capture tool takes some time to upload however I used this time to get on with my ancillaries.

I then watched each clip individually and dragged them into the main sequence to edit; this allowed me to pick and choose which clips I used. Final Cut Pro allows this to happen very easily as you can watch the clip in a separate window and then drag it into the space you require it. This is important as it meant that I was not uploading clips into my actual music promo that I did not need.

Final Cut Pro also allowed me to use tools such a split screen in the shot demonstrated.
I used this as I have seen it in other music promos and felt it has been effective when helping to demonstrate a narrative as it gives the effect of seeing the story in two perspectives. I therefore followed this idea to help me to conform to the conventions of music promos.

Through the construction of my music promo there were parts I felt weren’t as effective as others. For example, there was one shot in my hallway which was quite dark due to the door blocking out the spot lights on my ceiling. I therefore used a brightness effect on Final Cut Pro allowing me the shot to be brighter and clearer. This helps with continuity as the rest of my shots are much brighter.

Final Cut Pro also meant that I could upload my promo onto YouTube to then go onto Blogger. This was very important as without this export tool I would not be able to get the drafts onto Blogger to gain both teaching feedback and audience feedback.

Technologies used for my ancillaries;

I used a product online called ‘Picnik’ to edit the images I chose to use for my ancillary. Although many of the effects I used would have been on Serif I felt more comfortable using the online software and therefore felt it would save time as it is a lot simpler. The only problem I felt may occur is the loss of quality of the image however; the software allows you to pick the quality you want to save the image as so this problem was easily avoided.

I used Serif Page Plus to create my package, the software allowed me to use a variation of different tools to make it as effective as possible. For example, Serif allows you to open shared documents and then edit them yourself so I was able to use a template to make it look effective and professional as it gave the template of the ancillaries.

Serif also enabled me to create what was like a C.D through the use of a tool that allowed me to import and image but as the shape I would like it. This is effective as it meant that I could create a C.D that would fit the style of my music promo allowing continuity rather than just a plain block colour circle that would not look like a C.D you would get.