Evaluation Question 4

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

 

Research and Planning

I used a few different media technologies when researching and planning. The main technologies used were YouTube and Google. I used YouTube to research other music videos and I used Google to research for the digipak and magazine adverts. On YouTube we searched for songs by female artists, such as Ariana Grande, Rihanna and Adele. We also searched for Little Mix, although they’re not a single singer but a group, as their female and sing pop songs. On Google, we went on to Google Images to search for different digipak and magazine adverts for female singers, to see what they had put on theirs and how they had set it out. When making the audience research, we used Web 2.0, which consisted of SurveyMonkey, Facebook and Instagram. SurveyMonkey is a website to create surveys, and so we used this for our creating our audience research questionnaires. We then shared the questionnaires onto Facebook and Instagram so we could get some responses. We also used Facebook to communicate with each other, when we were not at school and needed to communicate. When first listening to all of Chelsea’s songs, to see which we would use, we used both YouTube and SoundCloud to listen to different songs. Once we chose the song, I downloaded it onto my iPhone from YouTube, from a download app, so I could listen to the song whenever I wanted, to get used to it. I also used my iPhone to take notes when planning the music video and ancillary texts. The last thing we used was Microsoft Word to make and create our shooting schedule.

 

Construction

For the construction of our media products, we used a range of media technologies to help with the creation of each product. For the music video, we used iMovie on Mac computers, and digital cameras and tripods. For our ancillary texts we mainly used Photoshop but we also used the digital camera and a website named dafont. The digital cameras and tripod were to film clips for our music video, which we then saved onto multiple SD cards. We then transferred the video clips from the SD card to the Mac computer, so we could download them onto iMovie. We put the video clips onto iMovie so we could then edit the clips together, to make our music video. We also used it to make colour corrections, such as making a dark clip brighter, and also to put titles onto our music video. We also imported the song, Meant to Be, from a USB stick to the Mac computers so we could add the song onto iMovie to help us edit our music video to the song. For our ancillary texts, we used Photoshop to make both of the adverts and the digipak. We searched on Google Images for a template of a digipak and then put it onto Photoshop so it was easier to know where to add things, such as the front cover and back cover, and additional inserts. We used a digital camera to take pictures for our front cover and for the background pictures of the adverts, and then transferred them onto Photoshop. To be able to use the same font for all of our products, we used a dafont to download a font and then use on both Photoshop and iMovie to put on all products. We also used Google Images to find and save logos for Syco and Sony, as they were the management we decided Chelsea was going to have. We decided on Syco and Sony after looking up managements on Wikipedia. We then put them on photoshop to add to both our digipak and our adverts. We also used google to search up about copyright, and what we should write for it.

 

Evaluation

We used many Web 2.0 technologies for the evaluation of our media products. The main technology we used was Blogger/Blogspot. This was to create our blogs so we could write about the process of how we made our media products. I used Microsoft a few times in the evaluation. I used Microsoft PowerPoint to make the presentation for postmoderism at the beginning of my blog, and I used Microsoft Word to first write out my evaluation question, and then I later added them to my blog and I used Word to record our feedback of our media products, and I used an iPhone to communicate with one of our respondent as we didn’t have time to meet face to face. We also used a sound recorder to record the artist’s feedback, and then put on our blog. To be able to put our storyboard onto our blogs, we had to use a scanner to scan them onto a computer and then put onto our blogs. Personally, for my blog, I like to add a lot of gifs and to do this I need to use different websites to make them. I use YouTube to get up the videos I need, such as music videos, and then I used a website named giphy to create my gifs. I then save them to my laptop at home and put them on my blog, wherever they are needed. To edit my gifs, cropping them for example, I used another website named ezgif.