Evaluation Post #4

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

All throughout our coursework and the completion of different tasks, different media technologies were essential throughout. In the beginning we used sites such as youtube and blogger to plan our early ideas, being able to watch videos and write about them etc. For example in my blogging earlier with trying to search for a song to use in our music video none of that would of been able to of been completed if it wasn't for sites like YouTube. And of course withut the aid of blogger it self none of the progress we were making would of been able to of been documented to help and inspire othergroup's work and use their blogs to inspire and improve our own.

The big help definitely did come in the construction stages of your work, shown here in James and I editing our music video. Without the aid of tools like Final Cut being able to edit down our video, it would be very difficult to piece together seperate pieces of footage and be extremely time consuming on the day of filming, and thusly by using programmes like Final Cut it made the process significantly easier. James and I did find problems getting to grips with anew piece of software in ohur lives like Final Cut and especially on a different type of computer like a Mac, but with disagreements with the machines and programmes on them we learnt from these disagreement and soon we became adept at them, as withut them our coursework would of not been produced.

Also here is the programme named Photoshop, with which James and I had experienced before and found it a great help in creating our digipack and magazine advert, and creating them to an industry standard comparable to many adverts a reader would find in a popular music magazine like, the NME, exactly the type of magazine that would get the audience James and I were targetting. It was also very handy in viewing products like our digipak as seen on the right here in the finished form without having to actually produce them physically.

The music software reaper also came in handy with James and I as we came to a point in production where we decided the original 6 minute version of 'Love Spreads' would be too long and had to edit it down to a reasonable size.