Evaluation Question 3

There are a range of technologies that I have exploited over the construction of my products (ancillary texts and music video) as well as within the stages of research, planning and evaluation, for example during the construction of my the consturction ic vieo) on, for exaple  proucts  music video we had to use final cut pro in order for our music video to have that really strong effect towards our target audience, this was done by one of the members of my group (fahmida).

Marking the lyrics of the actual song to the artist we were recording was quiet difficult in the sense we really had to make sure that our recording artist looked like he is the one that is actually singing but it really was time-consuming. We actually used a range of effects from filters to slow motions, I could honestly say that the slow motion effect was perfectly executed in terms of bringing the music video to life because it tells a story towards the audience for example at the beginning of our music video notice that the slow motion we employed starts from his back and then zooms onto his feet making it have a bit of a narration effect through the body language of the artist.

Another technology that I employed during the course of the construction of my digipak and advertisement was called “Photoshop and quark”; I used different packages for the ancillary work in terms of editing pictures and creating text. I got most of my images (in fact) all from blogger as we took pictures of the artist already and uploaded it here, from there I then decided to open Photoshop and upload the picture here before I then started editing my chosen image by adding a couple of filters and cropping the image as well, our teacher gave us a little advice that we should never stretch the images because it makes it look less appealing towards our target audience. This was quiet difficult to avoid seeing that I had to cover my whole page on screen  and the image that I choose was too small.

I used quark mostly for the advertisement in the sense that the advertisement required more text than the digipak as a result quark was my best solution because it had all the fonts, sizes and text boxes I need in order to get my avert done.

The internet came in handy for most of the research purposes because all my research required the internet; websites like YouTube were I got most of the music videos in order to describe theories like Goodwin’s amplification, illustration and disjuncture and also videos to help with my ideas in terms of the style, editing and camera work that I think will suit my group when it comes to production of our main product. I also use a website called “Dafont.com” this really helped me in choosing the sort of font to use for my digipak and advertisement. The digipak and advertisement that I have created have visual links in terms of fonts as well as size and colour.

Here is an example of the type of fonts that were available on the website

My group also made a storyboard in order to help us with the type of shots we are going to use, this was really useful because it meant that when it came to production of the main product (music video) we weren’t thinking on our feet of the type of shots we were going to use, hence we started and finished production much earlier.

I used blogger for all my ideas, everything that I have done in terms of A2 media coursework  has been uploaded onto the blog despite it being a very long process(blogging my ideas) it has been a very effective way of communicating with my group. The way I used this was pretty straight forward any idea that came to mind that I thought was really good I will create a rough copy on word than paste it onto the” create new” tab an fill the page with my ideas then press publish and done. However sometime it doesn’t publish my work at all because one of my evaluation questions went missing twice in one day, but overall blogger is a very reliable source of technology.

These are just a couple of examples of the way i used prezi on blogger

Here below is me using camtasia showing the posts i have done and the way i used blogger to present it on. These blogs that i have shown are my favourite posts in terms of content i have allot to talk about also the use of technology contribute to making it my favourite.