Sunday 18 December 2011

Evaluation question 4

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


New forms of technology have played a massive role in the production or three pieces of media and in the three stage process of creating them, planning, production, evaluation.

First piece of media outlets talk about blogger. Bloggers played a massive role in all three stages of this process because it is the method that we use to submit our work. It is also a great way to access work we have done from all over the world at any time as long as you have access to the Internet. Some of the biggest benefits of using blogger are that you can I upload multimedia files in many different formats and also upload information from websites such as prezzi, wordle and youTube. Also blogger is a very organised system because before uploading the blog post you can title it and when you publish your post it saves the date and time that it was published and orders them by this system you can also search for a blog post by its title which saves you time sifting through all the other posts you done.

Another piece of crucial technology that we used is high-performance Apple Mac computers these are very important pieces of technology because it is what we did all of the editing work, so they played the biggest role when we was in the production stage of our task. The reason these computers are really good for editing is that there were very large hard drive, high-quality graphics card and large amounts of RAM compared to the computer so we have for general use around school along with other things. The reason these things are necessary for editing is that it takes up a lot of memory and processing ability to do.

The program that we used for a video editing is called Final Cut Pro is only supported by Apple hardware Final Cut Pro is a very high quality professional editing software takes a lot of knowledge to use well. The biggest positive reason of using Final Cut Pro is the final product you finish up with because it's such a professional piece of equipment when used well it makes your entire work look very professional. The downside of Final Cut Pro is that because it's professional and complex to use is very easy to get confused to make big mistakes as we found out when using it.

Piece of software ever used for photo manipulation was Photoshop CS3 once again is a very professional piece of equipment used in the media industry. The way that it works is you build a final image through making slight changes to an image and layering these changes on top of each other which gives you a final product which can be very different to the picture he started with. The biggest downside of using this product is that it takes a lot of skill to use properly and if you don't have a basic knowledge of how to use Photoshop you can waste a lot of time playing around with things trying to work out. Another downside to these two pieces of software earlier both very expensive to buy and equally expensive to have training in using properly.

Two other pieces of technology that played a crucial role in the production or music video digipak an advert are of course HD video camera for the film needed and the directors commentary for our music video a digital voice recorder. Firstly I’m going to talk about is the HD video camera, I’d say the most important piece of technology that we had at our disposal without this we wouldn't of been able to film or take pictures needed for the production of our music video, digipak and advert some of the biggest advantages of using HD video camera is that all of the footage you film is in really good quality and the cameras battery is good so we could take it out for the whole day filming without it running out also they can hold a lot of film without running out of memory. The down side to these types of technology is they are normally very expensive but over all they are well worth the money

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