Media Studies Evaluation Q6

Question: What have you learnt about Technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Planning and Research

 Blogger:

So that we could keep track of our progress and add updates about our media product. For this, we had to make a Google account for this so that we could sign up to blogger considering it is a website which is connected with Google.

Prezi:

Prezi was one of the few main methods we had at our disposal to use for creating posts to put on our blog for updating our media product and to make the presentation of our overall blogs look more nice. This form of powerpoint was quite difficult to get to grips with at first but after making a few presentations with it, it became easier to understand the controls to work it and progressed on to make more detailed presentations for our blogs.

Microsoft Word:

Most people already are aware of how to use microsoft word and it is probably one of the most commonly used ways to make posts for our blogs along with microsoft powerpoint.

 Google:

This was the search engine that we used to do all of our research which included searching for film distributors and information about our target audience, their demographics etc.

 Youtube:

We used youtube throughout our first upload of our prelim task, target audience interviews and idea pitches to the class. Youtube also filled in as another form of our research into our media products chosen genre such as analysing various student video analysis videos. So that we could upload our videos though, we had to become familiar with creating a channel, learning how to upload videos and embed them into our blog posts.

Construction:

 For recording our media product, we used a Panasonic NV-GS500 to capture each of our shots and scenes for our film opening. The camera itself is easy to use as it has quite basic controls and we were taught how to use them throughout the production of our prelim tasks so we had already come to good grips with using the camera before our film opening project began. After learning the basic tools for the camera, it gave us the freedom to experiment with different shots and movements so that we can get different and more interesting angles that will accommodate our film opening such as establishing shots, close ups and extreme close ups etc.

  Boom microphone:

This helped us to get a higher quality sound whilst recording rather than just relying on the microphone built into the camera, the boom microphone also had a fur cover so that it could still pick up sound, but also cancelled out any unnecessary sounds such as wind etc. this was an easy tool to use considering it only had to be plugged into one of the ports on the camera and held in the right position to record the best sound.

  Computer:

A Hanns. G computer was used throughout the entire process of working on our media projects, obviously, this helped us do almost everything that didn't require recording; Editing, Research, blog updating etc. some of the software used for editing the film clips and sound were a bit difficult at first but once we had learned how to use the basic tools, we slowly developed our skills at using the software.

Evaluation

After the evaluation, we will use Youtube to upload our finished media products and to receive feedback on them, also, as well as youtube, the media product will also be uploaded onto our blogs on blogger as part of our final posts.