How did you use new media technologies in...
- 1. HOW DID YOU USE NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES? Alex Woodworth
- 2. The meaning of “new media" Simply, this is technology that wasn't around 40+ years ago like DSLR cameras and software e.g. YouTube & Adobe
- 3. Software
- 4. Blogger Blogger was used at every stage of my production to log the research that I have found as well as showing the production work that we have completed, and the evaluation tasks that have been done. I have used this to present all of my coursework in one place where it has been kept neat and tidy in an organised fashion. It has allowed me to embed certain things (Prezi slides, YouTube videos, PowerPoint etc.) so that I don’t need to include links in a lot of my blog posts as this would be more inconvenient and time consuming. This site is run by Google allowing users to share with many others what ever they wish, in this case it is for my coursework for my music video. I have learnt that using this software has allowed me to have all my work in one place and be able to share it in many different forms and ways.
- 5. Google I have used Google as an efficient search engine in order to gain information that we have required whilst researching this topic. I have used Google to help me research the hip-hop genre, as I previously had little knowledge on the background of the genre as well as what makes a music video/song hip-hop, and to gain access to the many other websites that I have used within planning and presenting including Blogger, Prezi and Wordle. Blogger was used to present my work as well as keeping it all orgasnised, Prezi was used to present certain areas of my coursework including one of the evaluation pieces, and Wordle has been used to make my coursework more unique. Having watched close to zero music videos, and no hip-hop videos before starting this task, Google has helped a lot during the research period of this task.
- 6. Prezi Prezi is an online presentation software that allows you to create a presentation with more movement within the changing of slides. It is similar to PowerPoint however you are given a wider variety of things that you can do on it which has helped me to create more unique presentations to the one that I am doing currently. Along with this it comes with a wide variety of themes that come under many different categories, giving me a lot of options to choose from. I have used Prezi in many slides during my blog as it stops PowerPoint from being too overused.
- 7. YouTube YouTube is the largest public video database website worldwide. To see conventions of the music videos I have been able to use YouTube, as it has allowed me to find a variety of hip-hop music videos for inspiration. YouTube was heavily used in the first task of my blog to analyse/compare two videos from the same genre. I have used YouTube to research music videos from the hip-hop genre which had allowed me to collect ideas to add into my music video. YouTube was also used to upload both my music video and my sweding video which has then been embedded onto my blog. I have learnt that it is very easy to acquire information from YouTube, and also how easy it would be to get noticed because any one can access your content.
- 8. Facebook Messenger Facebook is the largest social media site on the internet and Messenger is a separate app which allows you to keep in touch with friends from around the world and share anything with them. This feature was proven handy in arranging times to film and where to meet. Our arrangements can be seen on my blog, which were made over Facebook Direct Messenger. I have learnt that social media websites are very handy because you do not need to rely on word of mouth to arrange events or get feedback on work and this is helpful in case of a sudden change of events.
- 9. Adobe Photoshop This is an advanced photo editing software that I used to create all of my ancillary tasks. This has allowed me to give my ancillary tasks a reasonably professional look, making the outcome as realistic as possible. This software was complicated for me to use at the beginning as I had no idea what I was doing however, after looking at some tutorials on YouTube I soon found out what I needed to do in order to get the effects that I wanted. After using this software it has made me realise that it is not difficult to make a production with a professional look.
- 10. Adobe Premier Pro Premier Pro is an advanced video editing software. This program pieced together our footage for our music video in the editing stage. This program I found very simple to use, but, as with Photoshop, I struggled to understand how to use the software when I used it for the first time earlier in the year. Despite this, Premier Pro has allowed me to create a hip-hip music video for our production task.
- 11. Hardware
- 12. Camera For some of our filming we used an SLR Camera because. Using this camera was appealing to the audience as it allowed us to film part of our music video in a decent standard of quality. This camera was very portable and allowed us to do certain types of shots that we wouldn’t have been able to do with a larger camera. Despite this the battery life of this camera wasn’t great which meant that we had to shoot the majority of the music video using my phone.
- 13. Apple iMac The iMacs were used for editing the ancillary tasks and piecing the music together, with most of my work being done on one. The Adobe software ran well on these computers with no lag issues, showing the quality of these computers. These computers were used at every stage of production and research and worked well with whatever I required them to do.
- 14. HP Laptop This laptop was used at home when completing a lot of my blog, as well as the ancillary texts that I have created. This laptop is very modern and has allowed me to do things that wouldn't be possible with an older laptop, as this one is also touchscreen. This has been it easier and more efficient to do certain tasks that have been required during some of these tasks.