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

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Blogspot.com Blogger is an online website which can be used

to post documents ranging from pieces of text to images to videos and more. Blogger was one of the most important forms of technology used throughout the entire project. It is where all my pre production, production and post production work is located. It has advantages of being able to share work with my group member quickly and efficiently, and also provides back up for any documents or files lost over the production process as uploading things onto blogspot.com means your documents are stored out in cyber space as well as on your own computer. It was not used to help with planning, research, evaluation or construction but more as a way to safe guard and showcase my work.

An example of work I posted on blogspot.com

Microsoft Office (Word)

• Planning• Microsoft word was important in the

planning process as it allowed us to easily insert images along with text which was good for displaying our costume designs and our locations with reasons for our choices.

• Microsoft word is also useful as its variety of tools allowed for us to easily create a table to show group roles and deadlines for tasks which easily accessible for all members of the group.

Example of costume design along with text.

Example of table created in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Office (Word)

• Research• I used Word to conduct my institutional

research. Word allows me to import images along side text. Which was good for comparison of record label logo’s alongside text.

• Evaluation• In my evaluation I used the tools

provided in Word to create a large organized table as shown in the image. This was an important part of my evaluation as it allowed me to structure my answers carefully and make them easy to mark.

Youtube.com

• Research• I used Youtube.com as a way to show

my collected footage on my blog. Also I used it to access the music videos that I analysed.

• Planning• I used Youtube.com to host different

song choices. It was useful at the beginning of our project as I could host different song possibilities in the same place.

iMovie HD• I used iMovie HD to upload and edit my

music video. It was my first time using iMovie to edit as last year I took on a different role in the group. I learnt editing techniques that apply not only to video editing but also editing concepts used in photography such as the use of the effect Sepia. Using iMovie HD to edit my work taught me the important skills that relate not only to the editing of video clips but the editing of sound. It lead me to use a program called Audacity specifically used for splicing and editing audio clips. It was used only to edit my video but used once in planning in which I practiced the use of invisible edits.

Photoshop• Construction• Photoshop was used only in the construction of the Digipack and the

poster. When using Photoshop I learnt to the magic wand tool to help me outline and choose with great precision the parts of the photo I wanted to eliminate and highlight. Photoshop was also useful for highlighting different fonts and creating a motif.

Digipack Poster