How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
We needed camcorders to film our music video. This was essential. We used one like this, a Sony HDD camcorder. With it being in HD we managed to get a good picture on the video, we never experienced an issue with quality control.
My Partner and I found that iMovie did in fact not agree with us. We found it both hard to use and sluggish. So we moved onto Windows movie maker 16.4.3508.0205. We found it much more convenient, easier, and generally much easier to use. The only downside is that the transitions and wipes are much more 1980's than modern in comparison to iMovie. Yet I believe we made it work. While the wipes sway away from the 21st century, The technology does not. It moves away from the VHS editor. which would take months. Its much more convenient.
We needed to use a blank DVD to place our movie on. It was a plain and simple copy paste style action with minimal to no effort, was very easy.
The theory of 'Participation Media' is important in this question. As before the internet became available to most. People subdued to media, like a form of propaganda, it was either except or don't, no real other choice behind it. Within the 21st century, companies such as Facebook and Twitter became available to all with a decent home hub. Tumbler is the most important social media site for TV shows as after an episode, the 'Fandom' will go on and talk about it, and can get others interpretations of the theme. People can now become part of the show they love without working on it directly.
Our production was broken down into three separate parts Research, Construction and Evaluation. Each were helped out by the media technologies provided to my partner and I on the internet.
Our production was broken down into three separate parts Research, Construction and Evaluation. Each were helped out by the media technologies provided to my partner and I on the internet.
In the Research stage, Google, Wikipedia and YouTube were the biggest help for us, Especially YouTube. YouTube gave us examples of music video in which we could start our initial videos. While the videos were not of our genre, they are of our chosen story line and with YouTube they were handed straight to us through a simple interface. After we finished that and gathered a main idea around our story line, we turned to Google to iron out any bugs we had around our theories, and that lead to me to an amazing blog around the idea of Strauss theory of binary oppositions.
Slideshare was also a very helpful website. A website where people have made a slide about that they believe is important. The only downside of SlideShare is that people can say anything they want and call it a fact, so its sometimes hard to find fact from fiction on websites from this.
Another very useful website was Wikipedia the online encyclopedia. We used it to look up items we didn't understand for example Post-modernism. But again also with this website its hard to uncover what is true and what is a lie as anyone, anywhere can change it around.
The last main website we used for Research was Bandcamp. It is a website in which a indie band can set up a home page an it will help to raise awareness on their band, its a fantastic idea for any upcoming band.
We also used a camcorder to interview the band and asked what they wanted. We stuck to their guidelines and it turned out like they expected.
The next stage was Construction. This was the point that my partner an I put all of our research knowledge into practice. This was a major part which indeed included Media Technologies.
We needed camcorders to film our music video. This was essential. We used one like this, a Sony HDD camcorder. With it being in HD we managed to get a good picture on the video, we never experienced an issue with quality control.
Unfortunately the cameras outer body has experienced some wear and tear and it made it hard to connect it to the Tri-Pod so we have experienced a few shaky scenes, But my partner managed to get it in a good frame.
My Partner and I found that iMovie did in fact not agree with us. We found it both hard to use and sluggish. So we moved onto Windows movie maker 16.4.3508.0205. We found it much more convenient, easier, and generally much easier to use. The only downside is that the transitions and wipes are much more 1980's than modern in comparison to iMovie. Yet I believe we made it work. While the wipes sway away from the 21st century, The technology does not. It moves away from the VHS editor. which would take months. Its much more convenient.
For our prilimanry texts we used Photoshop. We used it for The poster, Album cover, and magazine advert. All in all we found it to be a comfortable experience, having both had experience of it before we didn't really come across any issues in the using of the product, yet we tried our best to not make our anchillary texts seem 'Photoshoped' E.g. Fake.
We needed to use a blank DVD to place our movie on. It was a plain and simple copy paste style action with minimal to no effort, was very easy.
Finally was the Evaluation part. We used a laptop to display our video to people. This helped us to gain an prospect on what we could do better and what we did well. This was a massive benefit in our evaluation. Another part we used was word. This is Microsoft's word processor application. We used this to create and design our own questionnaire to hand out to people once they have seen our video, (you can see an example earlier on in the Blog. We used Blogger. I posted the video up on to it and waited upon comments, sadly non have arisen yet but if they would have we would have taken them into account. Overall the amount of media technologies we used in our evaluation question has been significantly less than the other two. But we believe we have done a thorough evaluation and corrected any issues that we had.
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