In the construction of my research, planning and evaluation stages, I used many different technologies. Firstly, I used my Sony VAIO laptop:
This was easily transported in my bag and was light which was ideal as I could use it to store images, load photos from my camera, access the internet, download files, use blogger and all of the necessary software which I needed was all waiting and ready to be used. I used my laptop in the research and planning stages to research into bands and videos and then create powerpoints with analysed details on these products. I then used it throughout the evaluation stages to display my answers in interesting and engaging ways and show my ability to use many different technologies.
In order to research effectively with my laptop, I used the Google search engine
Along with YouTube
In order to retrieve all of the information I needed regarding album covers, digipacs, music videos, theories etc. But YouTube was not only used for research, we used it to display our video online and receive feedback from our peers and from our teacher when we embedded the video on blogger.
We used blogger
To display all of our products we have created, the research and planning leading up to them, inspirations, analyses and also to receive feedback from our teachers as well as finding out tasks that our teachers have set on their blogs. This is very useful as I could access blogger from anywhere with the internet and begin posting if I had an idea in my head. This made life a lot easier than hand writing all of my ideas and then combining them in a folder as I would not run the risk of forgetting any of my work as it would all be on the blog. Before creating posts, I would create images and products on software such as Photoshop or Sony Vegas:
These editing softwares enabled me to create products that are unique to me which use common conventions of other media products and entice an audience. These products varied from stop motion experimenting videos on Sony Vegas to creating a digipac on Photoshop. Photoshop made my life a lot easier to fulfil conventions of other real media products as it is hard to achieve the effects the professional products without any editing whatsoever. Before using any text on Photoshop, I would craft what I wanted to say on Microsoft word.
This would minimise spelling errors and I could organise the layout of the writing without any extra fuss on Photoshop. Once I had created these ideas, both myself and the other group members would share these products with Facebook and Twitter:
These social networking sites enabled us not only to share products with the audience and receive feedback but also for us and the band members to convey information to one another about filming dates, costumes, progress and equipment etc.
During filming processes we used two cameras which were very similar, the Sony NEX-5 and the Sony NEX-7
This provided a high quality image and great playback facilities so that we could review what we had filmed in seconds. This camera was also easily compatible with the apple mac we used for editing:
When filming, we also used the mac to play music on iTunes so that the band could sing along in time in order to make lip syncing easier for us in the editing process.
Email was another way of communicating with each other along with texting from my blackberry which could also receive emails whilst 'on-the-go' so I could keep up to date with the group's actions and what was happening.
In conclusion, the use of media technologies throughout my media course has enabled both me and my group to communicate with ease, share files with one another, work efficiently and produce work on time. Without media technologies, what we have created as a group would be impossible. Media technologies are always developing their ergonomics and how user friendly they are, which makes them easier to use and more accessible for a wide audience. Media technologies are having an ever increasing impact on the world and are helping people like us media students to create far more professional products than what we would have been able to five years ago. Nowadays, Americans have access to 1,000,000,000,000 web pages and 65,000 iPhone apps - all of this information in your pocket. The modern day phone is a million times cheaper, a thousand times more powerful and a hundred times smaller than the MIT computer in 1965. So what fits in your pocket now, will fit inside a blood cell in 25 years. This media convergence has enabled me to create these products and enabled you to view them in such a convenient way. Thank you, internet.
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