Evaluation - Question 4

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

Throughout our whole project, new media technology was crucial in every stage right from research and planning all the way to production and evaluation.

Camera:

This year we shot our footage in HD compared to SD last year which makes a huge difference to the whole look of the video. The quality is far better and it makes it look glossy and professional.

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Premier Pro was an excellent program for us to use for our music video. Having used it last year for our thrillers, we had had practice with the program and so were able to experiment more rather than just get to grips with the basics.
Navigating around the program was fairly easy and there were many tools we could use to make our video just the way we wanted it to be.

Here is a short slideshow showing some of the tools used to create our video:

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adobe Photoshop:

Photoshop was crucial in order to create our album cover. The shots we had taken were good however they looked much more professional once airbrushed and adobe Photoshop allowed us to do this. I came across a simple tutorial which I followed and then altered some settings depending on the particular photo I was editing. An example of a photo can be found in my previous editing post here. Photoshop allowed us to enhance our photos to make the look more professional. We used different layer effects and edited the brightness and contrast to really make our photos stand out.

Internet:

The internet has been used in every stage of our project. Firstly in research and planning and all the way through to production and finally the evaluation. The main websites we have used have been Blogger, Facebook, Youtube and Wix. Blogger has been the main platform for all our work and a way in which our group could work together particularly on the group blog and communicate with each other. We would be able to post ideas for the entire group to see. As well as using Blogger to communicate, we had a message thread on Facebook between the three of us which we could send messages and links back and forth.

Facebook also allowed us to stay in contact with our artist and we would be able to message him and let him know all the details. We also used Facebook to set up an event for our screening and invite people to view gaining a wide audience over our social network.




Without Youtube, we would have not been able to view previous videos and get our inspiration. We were able to compare and contrast videos and get ideas for our own. Youtube also allows us to share our video with the world through the latymermedia channel.

Finally, Wix was our website creator. It was a flash based site which allowed us to create our own website for our artist. It was easy to navigate around and you could really experiment and create a professional looking website.