A2 evaluation
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Kathryn used various new media technologies throughout her multimedia project, from planning and research to construction and evaluation. She used Blogger for planning and documenting ideas with her group, YouTube to research existing trailers and get inspiration, and iTunes and Google to find music and research film posters. She used a video camera, Photoshop, and iMovie to construct her teaser trailer. Finally, she used social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube to evaluate her work and get feedback from others.
A2 evaluation
- 1. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Kathryn Peers
- 2. Using many forms of media technology was a vital part of my coursework. From researching to evaluating, I was constantly using different technology to help create a multimedia project. Without technology, this assignment would not have been possible; it enabled me to watch trailers, edit images, record our experience and more.
- 3. Planning We used Blogger to record our thoughts and ideas. It was a great place to document ideas because our group could all view and access the blog. Not only did we use it to show our planning and development process, but it was also a great way to contact each other in the group. We could write down ideas as they came to us, then because we all regularly checked the blog, others in the group could respond and expand each others notes. Soulless Productions
- 4. Research YouTube • YouTube was imperative to my media project and was used throughout it, from researching to evaluating. • Technology enabled me to research existing trailers using the website phenomenon YouTube. It also allowed me to easily embed videos onto the blog to show where we got inspiration and stages our teaser trailer has gone through.
- 5. Research YouTube • YouTube also helped with getting feedback for our trailer as other YouTube users can comment on videos. However we didn’t get much feedback because there are so many videos on YouTube it’s difficult to get ours noticed. To convey the enormity of YouTube videos, I found an article that stated a year ago ‘24 hours of video is uploaded every minute’, and it’s ever increasing! • Even though we didn’t get much feedback from YouTube, we thought it was the best place to upload our video to as it targets our audience because the main users of YouTube are teens- young adults; known as the YouTube generation. YouTube - Mediabdks's Channel
- 6. Research iTunes • It took us a long time and a lot of research to find music for our trailer, but with the aid of the top online music store that holds over 13,000,000 songs, iTunes allowed us a huge range of music to browse. You can search, and it will suggest related recommendations, so it’s easy to search through many songs. Search box
- 7. Research Google • I used the search engine Google for any queries and research. It was especially useful when researching horror film posters on Google images because it was so quick and easy to find a range of posters. Magazine Websites • When beginning my magazine, I first wanted to research existing film magazines to see what conventions made them successful. I used Google images for this but also the websites for the magazines. For example Empire magazine had a cover archive, allowing me to look at their magazines, past and present, and see the conventions and themes running throughout them all.
- 8. Construction Video Camera • We used a digital video camera to film all of our footage for our teaser trailer. It was new to all of us so before we began filming for our trailer, we had a test to get familiar with using it and the tripod. • We also used the video camera on an iPod to film the male character held hostage for the shot of the female character watching the iPod.
- 9. Construction Flickr • Flickr was a great website we could upload all our photographs to. We created an account for our group Soulless Productions and put on all the images we took at our poster and magazine photo shoot. • The website made it easy for us to share our images in our group and it even makes them public and open to comments. However, like YouTube, it is such a huge library of photos, that it’s unlikely people would stumble across and comment on them.
- 10. Construction Adobe Photoshop • I used Photoshop for editing my images for my magazine and poster. It was simple and easy to use, and I had some previous experience, so I knew some more complicated techniques for manipulating and modifying my photographs. • It is a professional program used in the media industry, therefore great for creating realistic, professional looking texts.
- 11. Construction In Design • In Design was essential to creating my ancillary texts. It is a simple program that allows the user to add and edit text and images. I used it to create both my magazine front cover and poster. • Like Photoshop, In Design is used to create professional media products, therefore my ancillary texts will look like a real media text.
- 12. Construction Although there is a wide variety of fonts on In Design, I wanted some more graphic and unusual fonts to make my ancillary texts unique and visually exciting. I used a website called Dafont to download interesting fonts. Comunicacion Digital Tosca Zero
- 13. Construction iMovie • This program was essential to the editing stages of our teaser trailer. • As no one in our group had ever edited video footage before, this was a brilliant program that was simple and clear to use. We all had a practise of cutting clips, adding sound and other editing techniques before we began editing our teaser trailer to get acquainted with it. • iMovie allowed us to do a range of interesting things such as adding filters to specific shots and cutting out or overlaying sound.
- 14. Evaluation Slideshare and Scribd • Slideshare is a hosting site that allows you to upload your PowerPoint’s to. It allowed me to easily add PowerPoint’s to my blog. • Scribd is also a hosting site, but for word documents. This allowed me to create word documents and easily upload them to my blog. • They were both really useful when creating a multimedia evaluation.
- 15. Evaluation Social networking and YouTube • Both Facebook and YouTube were a great, modern way to get feedback for ideas and our trailer. In an age where social networking is part of many people’s everyday lives, it was a great and efficient way to gain feedback. It also reached out to our target age group for our trailer because the majority of regular social network users are 16-24, the same age range as horror film viewers. • We used Facebook to ask friends their opinions because you can receive instant replies, to get speedy feedback. Also It’s possible to post videos from YouTube onto Facebook, therefore it gets our trailer seen by a wide audience.
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