Evaluation question 4

Describe the technologies you used throughout the project, discuss both digital and non-digital technologies.

Throughout the second year of our course, we have used various technologies to produce our work, some examples of these are;

• Digital camera
• The filming camera
• Tripods
• Phones

Editing software

• Premier Pro
• Photoshop

Online tools such as 

• Blogger
• Popplet
• Prezi
• Survey Monkey

Firstly, I will be discussing the Physical tools we used in order to document our progress throughout the year.

The first tool we used was a recording camera. This was the most fundamental piece we've used throughout this year and the last. We used this primarily this  year to film our Music video, and our audience feedback. This was an effective tool as we couldn't have possibly done the work without it. The camera is incredibly easy to use, and because of that, we were never limited on what we could do, the camera was easily adaptable to do what we needed and thus we were able to create anything we could imagine. 

The tripod was essential in creating a high quality music video, by attaching the camera to the tripod we were effectively removing any shaking and thus creating a more fluid and higher quality piece. This is incredibly easy to use as the camera can screw into an attachment that goes on the top of the tripod (As seen in the image)

The digital camera played a smaller but no less important task in our Media journey, By documenting each of the moves we made, we were able to create an effective time line whilst boosting the effectiveness of our blog posts. The digital camera was essential in creating our storyboards and animatic.







Software used.

We were able to manipulate our captured footage and pictures in order to produce our final package of Videos, Magazine adverts and Digipak.

Below you can see an image of our music video being edited in Adobe Premier Pro. This software came with both positives and negatives. The positive side of the software was that once we acquainted ourselves with the software, there was a wide glut of tools available to use. However there was a steep learning curve with the software which meant we had to spend a lot of time getting used to the tools and the features available.

In conclusion Premier Pro was an extremely effective piece of software and I believe my ability with it has increased substantially.

The next piece of software I will speak about is Photoshop. Below you can see our digipak being created in Photoshop.

Photoshop was very similar to Premier Pro, coming with a wide array of tools that can be used in numerous different ways to accomplish whatever you want. However similarly to Premier Pro, we had to first learn how to use the program effectively. By the end of the year we were quite adept at using Photoshop and this can be seen in our Digipak creation.

The final set of tools that we used were found online in the form of websites.

The first, and most important is Blogger.

We used this website to document our work as it is an effective tool that allowed us to easily create a portfolio.

The second website we used was Popplet, we used this primarily for one of our Evaluation questions as it allows us to easily and efficiently display our information.

As you can see above, the use of Popplet is very efficient and allows us to quickly and easily display the answer for our question.

The next website we used was Prezi.

Prezi is a website that allows you to quickly and easily create presentations that are much more pleasant to look at over programs such as Powerpoint, or block text. This was an effective tool as it allows us to explore the different branches of technology and find unique fitting ways of making our answers.

The final website I'll be covering is Survey Monkey.

Survey monkey is an extremely useful website as it allows you to gather information on your work from numerous individuals anonymously, which means that their answers are more likely to be true and what they believe, meaning your data is much more accurate. It also means you can spread the questions much faster than individually interviewing people, meaning you can gather more data faster.