technology evaluation
DESCRIPTION
This is just my evaluation for my media work where I had to create a music video for a friend of mine. It won't make much sense to anyone outside of media class so just smile and move along wonderful people of Narnia/Middle Earth/ Hoth :DTRANSCRIPT
Media Technologies Pre-Production
Technology Used
Used for
Why
Successful
Unsuccessful
Blogger
I used this to
present my weekly reflections and my
preliminary research and ideas.
It allowed me to show all of my investigative research
with easy access to people who’re interested.
Very, it’s easy and efficient and lets me upload all my work with links to other relative information like
posts,videos and documents
Blogger enjoys not
hyperlinking my work and putting in key details.
Blogger also really enjoys saving work as a draft and
not as a post.
YouTube
Putting my videos of
my presentations, research and the
final music video on the internet for
viewing.
It allowed me to put my videos onto other sites like “Blogger” and gave me the
option to add important texts to the videos that I may have forgotten and also let a HUGE audience
view my work.
It did exactly as it said on the tin and had more
features available than I last remembered.
Often cancelled uploads of small video files.
Getting information
and accessing websites fast.
It’s the most efficient search engine in my
opinion.
It allowed me to receive all the data I required fast and
easy.
Plenty of unneeded
information was also found.
Scribd
Used to present my Microsoft word documents and
some power point work.
I used this to present my power point presentations
and Microsoft document on my blog.
It put my documents on my blog with ease and was
almost always accessible when viewing my blog.
It presents work with the
table layouts incorrect and not layed out correctly. It also decided several times to not upload files. It was a
hassle to work with.
Issuu
Used to present my
Microsoft word documents some
power point work.
I used this to present my
power point presentations and Microsoft documents
on my blog.
Faster than Scribd and 100 times more reliable.
NONE! Emails can be a little
much but that’s easily resolved.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Used for making
pitches and displaying
information.
It’s an easy programme for creating presentations that are shown in large group.s
It’s quick and easy to use and doesn’t require an
extensive knowledge to use well.
Closing unexpectedly.
Microsoft word
Used for my technology
evaluation and to spellcheck and plan out my blog posts.
It’s an easy programme to
open and write a rough blog post in which spell checks
your work as you go along.
It’s an easy to use
programme that does most of the work with ease and
isn’t time consuming.
Doesn’t work too well with Issuu. Much prefers Scribd.
Photoshop
Used to create the digipak and magazine advert
It was the best programme for editing and changing a
still photograph
Allowed us to manipulate
our images in ways we didn’t think possible and
make our work look professional.
Difficult to understand on
first few turns.
Fireworks
Used to create the
digipak and magazine advert.
To manipulate our
magazine ad & digipak images.
It offers functions to
manipulate photographs so they look more
professional.
It’s not as good as
photoshop. It’s limited on what you can do while
photoshop felt endless. This also crashed pretty often.
Unsigned.com
Used to research unsigned artists.
To find an artist to do a
video for.
It has a huge variety of unsigned artists at its
disposal.
None of the artists really
grabbed my attention and it’s time consuming going
through all the artists even after narrowing your search
down.
Hotmail
Emailing important documents to my
partner.
Allowed me to send information to my partner and communicate with her
easily and doesn’t cost money like a text or letter
would.
Allowed me to email large files like music or sound effects to my partner.
Doesn’t send huge media files like full length songs.
Production
Technology Used
Used for
Why
Successful
Unsuccessful Mini DV camcorder
This was used to film the entire music video.
To film the music video.
It’s a durable and light
weight camera that offers good quality and has a
variety of essential functions for what my
video required.
Battery life feels limited when doing a fulls day
worth of filming but that’s nitpicking. Picture quality is the cameras main problem.
iPhone 4s
Taking pictures for the magazine and
digipak
To take photos for the
magazine ad and digipak while on the move.
It captures HD
photographs and allows the holder to email photos
to themselves directly after capturing the image. It’s small and light weight and doesn’t weigh much
to carry around.
The camera is good, but it is not the same as using a 15
megapixel camera.
Tripod
Filming the music
video.
Gave smooth pans and tilts and kept the camera steady.
It really helps the shots
feel more professional as they’re steady and it
helped the tilts and pans from feeling sloppy.
Damaged tripods meant the
balance ball was broken and in turn meant some
shots aren’t steady or framed correctly.
BalckBerry Phone
Used to take photos when filming.
Take behind the scenes photos and videos.
Always at our disposal to take behind the scenes
photos.
Poor,poor picture quality.
Imac
Uploading music video footage.
Empty our tapes of footage so we could continue. Used in post-production to edit on and in pre-production to do research with.
It allowed us to store lots of our footage on and has an easy to understand interface that makes navigating simple.
Crashes easily and can
freeze for up to 15 minutes.
Final cut
pro
Used to edit the
music video.
I was familiar with the
programme before and wanted to better myself at it and it also offers LOTS more
techniques to experiment with when editing then
Imovie does.
It allows editing to be done much closer to
seconds than Imovie and has many more functions
and techniques at your disposal.
Often forgot the simple
things like importing footage as you go along
learning the other features which can be frustrating.
Dafont
digipak and
magazine advert
To have a font to represent
the brand of “Robert Staines.”
Huge selection of fonts to choose from for ANY type
of media product.
It leaves the white spaces in
font when downloaded.
Post Production
Technology Used
Used for
Why
Successful
Unsuccessful
Photo Booth
Film our evaluation.
It was easy to use for filming
when editing at the same time in Imovie.
Really nice picture quality and had no major faults.
Encountered no problems.
Imovie
Editing evaluation
together.
It’s not as time consuming as Final Cut and bonds well with
Photo Booth.
It was very easy and fast
to import and export footage.
Lacks some useful functions
when editing and the navigation box that holds
footage gets cluttered and disorganised very easily.