Coursework Evaluation Part 4

How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Throughout my initial research, I used programs such as Word, Powerpoint, Excel and the Internet to find the research and put everything I found into documentation. Some of the best websites in which I was able to find any music video I wished to see was the YouTube website. I also gathered many of my screenshots from YouTube in order to make my documents and powerpoints more visual and provided fkey proof and points about certain music videos e.g. the art-style music videos.

My planning stage consisted of every program that I had used during the research stage, as it required even more documentation and proof of planning.

My production stage required the use of many different programs, the most notable ones being Sony Vegas 9.0 to edit my multimedia music video footage and the image editor programs such as GIMP and Adobe Photoshop to edit my CD/DVD Digipak Design Covers. I've also created a mock up promotional website using the Moonfruit website, which helped me learn how to create a website from the layouts and templates that they offered.

For the evaluation stages, I used the program Paint to draw on where my video camcorder was placed during filming, Excel to evaluate my questionnaire results, Sony Vegas 9.0 to edit my Focus Group Feedback Video Interview and, of course, I have been using Blogger.com to document all my progress, development, designs, and audience feedback. For uploading all my original Word Documents without copying and pasting onto Blogger, I found a website called Scribd that lets you upload all your documents and instead I copied and pasted links to this website onto Blogger so my audience can see the document as how I had originally created it.

I have also helped other media students in creating their music videos when there were problems with permission to use the college cameras overnight. Everything worked itself out when I offered to let Vicky Steadman use my camera for filming, as well as Sam Carter, and helping out during the shoot. I have also used a digital camera to take pictures of signed permission letters, actors contracts and musician contracts for proof that everything that happened during this campaign was to the consent of the actors/musician and the permission from the council.