Evaluation Q4

1
How did you use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?

• Making is Connecting

2
Web 2.0

• David Gauntlett published media studies 2.0, this
  book describes that web 2.0 audiences can be
  brought together through there creativity.
• Instead of a producer producing a static page for
  a consumer to look at, the internet became
  interactive and everyone could become a producer.
  He sees digital technology as a extremely
  positive thing as it brings people together.
• Traditional form of media studies teaching and
  research fails to recognise the changing media
  landscape in which the categories of 'audiences'
  and 'producers' blur together, and in which new
  research methods and approaches are needed.

3
What I have used
4
Blogger
I have used Blogger to present my work to my
teacher and peers. It allows me to display a
plethora of multi media in one place. If this
technology was not available I would have had to
simply write about what I had done rather than
have it easily accessible on my blog. Both photos
and videos are easily viewed on my blog and
various other forms of media.
5
Youtube

• Youtube was useful in both the research and
  planning stage and the main production.
• During my research it allowed me to watch short
  films to understand genre and narrative, also to
  give me ideas of what to do for our short film
• I also used YouTube to upload clips of me talking
  about my work to personalise my blog to me.

6
InDesign

• InDesign was absolutely essential in my first
  year as I used it to create my entire magazine
• It is a very useful piece of software as you can
  completely mimic all conventions of a magazine,
  making it look professional
• It is also very easy to edit your magazine with
  the drawing board on the outside

7
Photoshop

• Photoshop has been absolutely crucial throughout
  my media course
• In my first year it allowed me to edit photos use
  for my magazine, letting me make my magazine look
  much more professional
• It has also been useful for the same function in
  my second year as I could edit images that were
  used in my ancillary tasks.
• Below you can see that I used photoshop to make
  my images black and white and to edit in a brick
  background

8
Evaluation

• Digital technology has made our work and roles
  much easier when creating our film as a group or
  when doing individual tasks
• Software such as Adobe premier has enabled us to
  improve out short film and make them better for
  our audience through the use of the editing
  tools, addition of sound files and effects,
  whilst photoshop has been crucial when creating
  poster for my ancillary tasks, as it allowed me
  to edit images with a plethora of tools.
• The internet has been absolutely indispensable
  and is second to none for research, it made my
  research and planning considerably easier. I was
  able to research into our audience and it allowed
  me to find inspiration and examples for our short
  film.
• Furthermore, the technologies allow us to be more
  a prosumer, as we are able to conduct what out
  film is, through our audience research. This
  complies with David Gauntletts theory as I have
  been able to be more creative and connect with
  our audience.
• Overall, new media technology allows us to be
  more creative with pieces of work, whilst being
  able to present them in multiple different
  manners.