Q4. How Did You Use New Media Technologies In The Research,

Planning, Construction and Evaluation Stages?

Anabel San Martin

Research & Planning

To be able to conduct my Research i used Apple Macs as both in school and home I was to access one. The internet was my main source to be able to conduct my research as researching from existing music videos to exiting music labels/ The internet is a tool very useful as its very easy and quick to access it . Without the internet i would have not been able to produce such detailed and presentable work such as on Blogger as if i would have done it by paper. The common engine i used was Google, letting me access sites such as Youtube. With Google i was able to save time rather than wasting time searching in different sites and be able to use a variety of sources. Google allowed me to access information on existing artist and allowed me n their official websites. Using this made me successful in able to portray my artist for my target audience.

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relatively a new source of media, contributed in my research and planning. I used sites like Instagram to look at how existing dance artists present themselves and their everyday doings, clothing and props, inspirational pictures. I also used Twitter to be able to get an idea of how artists communicate with audience but also to look at their lifestyles. Blogger was a main media source that I used to be able to display all my findings but also be able to analyse around my pictures, videos etc, I was also able to visit past blogs from past media students blogs this helped me a lot. To be able to do test shots for our music videos and try out different editing shots we used Cannon DSLR camera and Cannon HD video camera this meant we were able to create a rich quality but we could easily access Apple Macs to be to save the footage and edit it using Final Pro X.

Construction

One of our tasks was to create an animatic using sketches on storyboard, we took shots of it using Cannon DSL camera and uploaded the images onto Final CutPro to be able to sync the music with the different scenes of our story board, creating a sequence. Final Cut Pro was very useful, easy and efficient to use. To be able to edit our final music video we also repeated this process using Final Cute Pro, the software was perfect to edit, allowed us to upload footage from different places, mix footage, leave gaps for future footage, we were able to produce transitions, fast pace, slow pace the footage. With all theses pros we were able to create a professional music video without it we wouldn’t have been able to do it.

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Another stage of construction. Was to create the website for our artist,For this I used Wix, this site was very enjoyable and easy to create thesite, I was able to look at existing templates to gain inspirations. Wixwas free and online which made it very easy for me to carry workingon it from home, school, work. It gave me the ability to apply images,texts, links, videos, surveys and more to the website improving thequality of it.For the Digi Pack, Adobe Photoshop XS was used as with this we wereable to change the colour, size but also cut out any background that wedid not want and we were able to merge images together, alter themand apply our texts such as Album Title, Artist name and Song List.Without using Photoshop our Digi pack would have been produced very basicand not on the level that we are capable of – professional looking product.

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During the construction phase, photographs were made of the artist to be able to have a variety of shots of her, to use for the website and Digi pack. We used a Cannon DSLR camera and to edit them we used Adobe Photshop Xs to make them professional looking, adjusting the light making the image flawless using Gradient Blur this was a very useful tool.

Evaluation

To be able to present all my work in a presentable way, I used Wix to present my 4 questions given. To answer these questions I used Prezi, Powerpoints to be able to access the powerpoint I uploaded it onto Slidehshare, Edexel to present my results in bars to be easy to find and clear, but also I filmed my audience feedback with a Canon HD video camera and edited it with Final Cut Pro to be able to access my footage, I also added text with the footage, the questions were seen in the footage to be able to make it clear. But I also used Wiz to present one of my questions as I could upload pictures and text all in one spot this was very useful for me.