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

Throughout my work i have used a variety of technologies to produce a pleasing outcome. Some of the technologies i have used were already familiar to me but others i had to get to grips with.

Firstly i had to learn how to use the online blog called blogger in order to display my research,planning, evaluation and construction of all my media products. Blogger works by uploading a series of posts able to display text, images and videos. The fact that i quickly learned how to use Blogger shows my ability to pick up skills quickly and efficiently.

During the planning stage of my work i used a camera to take pictures of things that inspired me as well as a video camera to film my actually footage. Being able to capture the images allowed me to look back on the stimuli and come up with ideas in brainstorms and mood boards. In corporation with my own images i used the internet and search engines such as Google and Yahoo to find images and videos that i could gain inspiration from and that which reflected similar messages and thoughts that i had about my products. I used YouTube to view existing media texts which were from the same genre as i was planning to make my music video.

To edit my main product i used i Movie. i Movie is available on the mac which i previously used in my other work. I find that this particular editing program is very simple to use and easily to learn which enabled to complete the editing of my video quickly and efficiently. One particular aspect of this work which i didn't have to deal with before was that of lip syncing. Although i did not feature as much as i wanted i still had to match up the music and the mouth movement so it looked correct. i Movie allowed me to edit the brightness and contrast of my various clips as well has trip/crop them down to fit in with the timing of the song used.

To create my Digi pack and poster i used Photoshop which i had to learn how to use as i had never used it before. I found Photoshop difficult to get to grips with but with a helping hand a managed to learn a lot about it and about the various tools and what they do. I am really pleased about the final results of my ancillary products, perhaps even more than my final product as they look very professional in my own opinion. Some of the tools i used included the text tool, brightness and contrast tool, bevel and emboss, blur, clone stamp tool and magic select tool just to name a few.