Evaluation Question 4

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

As in my AS project of making the begininning of a thriller, I used iMovie on the mac computers. This proved easy to do as I've used this softwear before.

For researching different music video's, I mainly focused on watching these via Youtube as it is well known for uploading music videos from all kinds of artists. I was orginally going to watch music channels but none of the videos that were played didnt link to my genre of music. Youtube was also a lot easier to use and I was able to post an embed code onto my blog. I was also able to post my final music video onto the website to improve the quality of it.

Blogger was a big help in journaling my research and showing the stages I went through and where I ended up. However, this website has been a pain on numerous occasions, varying from me being unable to post any posts to the most recent being that the entire website crashed on the 12th march 2011 and was down until the late evening of Friday (13th, coincidence?) Whilst the website was eventually restored, any posts posted the night before were deleted and had to be done again.

For filming my footage, I used a digital panasonic camera. The quality from this camera was very good but I found that zooming in made the footage too blurry so I tried to avoid from doing this too much.

For my digipack, I used a mix of windows live movie maker and paint on my laptop, I was originally going to use Paintshop Pro to add effects to front cover/inside/back cover/cd design etc more striking and effective but it was no longer available. I used Windows Live Movie Maker to make the lyrics video for my song and I also used it for the animatic of my band.

Finally, for my evaluation stage, I simply used the webcam on my laptop and uploaded the footage to Youtube and then published it to blogger.