Media evaluation question 4

Media evaluation question 4

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  Media Evaluation question4 Matt Morphy
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  How did youuse new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Throughout the filming and editing process of my music video, there were a number of media technologies that I used in order to get the effect that I wanted. For planning, me and my group used Email and Facebook messenger. Facebook messenger was very helpful as it offered instead chat with each other all in one place which made everything a lot less complicated and more organized. For construction and research I used a wide ranger of different sites, soft wears and tools such as Blogger, Facebook audience surveys, Slide share, Camera, Survey monkey, Photoshop, InDesign and Final cut pro.
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  Blogger Blogger has beensuch an essential part of how I document my work. Blogger allows me to embed work from other sites such as Scribed and Slide share. It also helps me stay organized and on top of my tasks by helping me know what I've already posted.
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  Facebook Surveys Facebook surveyshelped me and my group when it came to audience research, it is quick and easy to use and its also on one of the worlds most used social networking sites. This survey app allowed me to get information that helped me better understand my target audience.
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  Slide share Slide shareallowed me to organize my work and then directly embed it onto my blog.
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  Survey Monkey I usedSurvey Monkey to create surveys that I could share with a number of people through emails and social networking sites. This was also essential for audience research, I was able to receive some very interesting and helpful feedback which me and my group would then consider when making changes to our work.
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  Camera, Lights andmist machine For the camera, me and my group used the Cannon DSLR to film our music video but to also take pictures in high quality for our Digi pack and magazine poster. It has a 5x zoom which came in really handy and it had the option to manual focus the lends which also gave me and my group more freedom when filming. The lights and mist machine we used I got from a film school they allowed us to hire them when I told them we were making a project for school. This was a very important element as the combination of the two gave up some great shots that really referenced the 80's as this style of film music videos was popular back then.
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  Photoshop Photo shop wasa very helpful tool when it came to making our Digi pack and magazine cover and it gave me and my group a lot of creative freedom to add effect and fonts types to really help us express and reference the genre of music that we chose. It was challenging at first to learn but after watching some tutorials on YouTube, we got the hang of it and were up and running.
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  InDesign InDesign was veryimportant in terms of producing our Digi pack format and advertisement. We mainly used it to place our Photo shopped images into the templates which we created for the Digi pack and our magazine advert. We used layering and typography in order to combine all the images to create a finished product.
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  Final Cut pro Finalcut pro is an editing soft wear that me and my group used to edit our music video. It offers a wide ranges of tools ad effects which came very handy to us, one of which was allowing us to add in the music of 'Eye of the Tiger' over the shots, another was allowing us to add filters to the images, this was very useful as some of our shots were in black and white. Final cut pro also offered some effects that helped us replicate news footage as our opening shot news highlights.