Q4.HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE

CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION

STAGES?

TECHNOLOGY

• Technology is a body of knowledge used to create tools, develop skills, and extract or collect materials. Technology help to widen our creativity that is technology gives as more space to do extraordinary things, things which would not have been possible if not for the presence of technology. For example let us take a look at these two images below .the first image was taken in 1940s the quality of the picture in general is not bad .But can we describe this image perfectly to some who has not seen it before?, Now the second image is from recent time by that I mean 2013.

PICTURE FROM 1940 PICTURE IN 2013

This picture gives more depth in terms of description. It give as the perfect

image in our minds even if we have never been to the place before. This has

been made possible due to the use of colour. This shows that technology is

very essential in every media creation or project.

The computer has played a very major roll in my media project from both AS

and A2 without it none of these below would have been possible.

THE COMPUTER

• The computer has played a very major roll in my

media project from both AS and A2 without it none

of these below would have been possible.

IMac was used for all our video editing and the windows computer was used

For all my InDesign and Photoshop productions.

RESEARCHING AND PLANNIG

• The internet played a very important role in the making of my media product both from AS and A2.In AS for example I used the internet to research into the type of music magazine that I was creating at that time. Through the use of Google which is a search engine I was able to find example of professional magazines within the type of magazine that I was making. Also it was through Google that I discovered a font site known as Dafont.com which help me create amazing font styles for my music magazine. Also through Google I got to know more about the conventions of a music magazine within the Hip hop genre.

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• Also through the use of Google I was able to know the right locations for the shooting of a music within my genre .In my A2 through the use of the internet I was able to discover where I can find an unsigned artist who will be willing to work with me and my crew by going on the www.unsigned.com Afterfinding my artist I need to know more about how to create a good music video that fits perfectly into the genre of the artist this where YouTube became very useful. Due to the presence of YouTube I was able to be able to watch music of professional artists who fell within my genre and by doing this I was able to know where to set my video the type mise en scene, Editing and camera angels that my target audience will be expecting to see in my music video. In terms of my research and planning my mobile phone also played an important role through the use of the mobile phone I was able to communicate with my artist to know when he was free and ready for filming. Also the mobile helped me to access websites in places where I had no access to the computer.

• In planning my music video I had to draw a story

board .Microsoft paint was very useful .by using

pain I was able to draw my artist and what I

expected of him in each scene. It also made the

shooting very easy and very understandable.

• Also I used my phone to check when the weather

was suitable for filming through the use of .

CONSTRUCTION

• In AS MEDIA I was to create a magazine, I used

adobe In Design and Photoshop. These soft wares

helped increase my creativity, by using these

Softwares, I was able to manipulate the quality of

the image and also the colour and the size of the

image which helped me to achieve the exact size

for my magazine cover.

• Photoshop for instance helped me to add more

effects to my images in the construction of my cd

package for my A2 coursework. Also through the

use of Photoshop I was able to achieve this image

which I could not have done with only the camera.

Also through the use of these softwares I was able

to increase or decrease the brightness of my image

where necessary .Picture below are some of the

pictures I took with my camera. They looked a little

dark.

PICTURES WITHOUT PHOTOSHOP

No tattoos

PICTURE WITH PHOTOSHOP

• Through the use of Photoshop I was able to achieve these images below which were perfect for my cd package.

These softwares also made it possible for me to lay another

image over the other this help me to get a unique image.

• Secondly in constructing my music video the video

camera played a very important roll .Without the

video camera there would not have been any

music video .the video camera made it possible to

film the artist while he was performing his music.

• Also due to the improvement of technology less

effort was used to achieve the best quality footage

expected. However this could not have been done

without the tripod. The tripod also provided a great

assistance in the production of my music video.

• The tripod helped to hold the

camera in place and prevented

it from shaking .Also through the

use of the tripod I was able to

shoot from high angles and low

angles. After filming FinalCutPro

was used in bringing all the

pieces of footage together. Also

final cut pro helped me to put

some effects on my video,

effects which included colour

correction, increasing and

decreasing the speed of a

particular footage and also

adding the song to the video

and removing unwanted

background noise.

EVALUATION

• After I had finished my media product I

had to put it on the web where my

teachers and examiner could see and

mark ,through the internet I was able to

create a blog where I could post all my

work. My work was on a website known

as word press. Word press is an amazing

site which allowed me to learn a lot of

things such as laying out my work. The

site allowed me to create a menus and

categories where each piece of my

work went.

• Also social networks such as face book and twitter

played a very important role in my music video

,through these social networks I was able to get

audience feedback .these audience feedback

made me aware of certain mistakes that I had

made in the construction of my music video, my cd

package and my magazine adverts. It also made

me aware of how creative I was in the construction

of certain media product such as the cd package.

• YouTube again was very helpful in my evaluation

,comment left by my audience who had already

viewed the video made me aware of certain things

that i could not have seen at first .