Evaluation 3

There were many aspects of the media technology that helped us achieve all the work that we have produced for this a2 media course. 

Use of internet

Vimeo

At some point we had to use vimeo to look at previous A2 students work. This allowed us to get a clear understanding of what we could and should be achieving.

 Muzo.Tv

 There were countless times when we had trouble on being able to embed videos from You tube so eventually we found a site called Muzo.Tv. This site allowed me to embed every video that i wanted to upload on to blogger. Overall i thought it was very handy and easy to use.

Wikipedia

 Wikipedia gives you all the information you need, For example when i needed to track down information about my artist and the music video it was so simple. Wiki provides you with all the important information that is needed. I found it very helpful when i was searching about the genre and background of the artist.

Google

 Google is a very common site in fact many people use Google as their internet homepage. This site is basically like a door to information, news, images, videos, maps and many more things. I would have to say Google was one of the most helpful sites that i have used during this course. 

Blogger

Blogger is where we gather all our information and share it with others. Blogger has allowed us to express our work. Blogger is very useful to share information, it allowed us to present our work in creative ways. For example we are able to use images and videos to illustrate our work which makes the work more interesting.

You Tube

You Tube is a video sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. You Tube also allows to share videos and watch videos. This site was particularly helpful because it allowed us to search for different types of music videos from different type of genres. The down side for me was that i found it annoying not being able to embed certain videos.

  




















During our filming we used many technical equipments. For example We used a recording camera to record shots for our music video, We also used lights that we were able to attach on top of the camera, because our filming took place at night  the additional camera really helped us out. We also used a mini loudspeaker which allowed us to sing in sync with the song. The tripod supported the camera for   our still shots. Lastly we used a still camera to capture images for our storyboard, location shots and images for our digipak and advertisements.

The Mac has provided us with many programs that helped us with producing our work. For example it had programs such as photo shop which i personally used to create my advertisement and digipak. It also includes programs like Final Cut Pro where we did all our editing.

 

We were given three memory cards. Two for the recording camera and one for the still camera. We used these memory cards to safely keep all our shots and images.

The still camera was very handy. We were able to take images at all times. whilst filming, editing and during practice.

 

The hard drive allowed us to safely store all our work. Every shot and image that we took we eventually saved it in our hard drive. Every group was given their own hard drive with their own group number displayed on it.

 The card reader allowed us to connect our memory card to the Mac.

Photoshop

O

Here are some screen shots from my ancillary products. I used photoshop to create my digipak and advertisement. This program provides you with tools which allows you to make your work very interesting.
 

This tool here shows you your history of layers, so if some point you want to turn back and delete something this tool will allow you to do so.

To create this video i used a program called iMovie. This is a program on the Mac, it is very useful when creating small clips. In this clip i have illustrated shots from our filming process. And to take these shots we used the still camera. so overall the media technology really allows you to produce interesting and good work.