Evaluation Question 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning

and evaluation stages?

HDV Camera

To film the whole of my video we used a Canon HV30 camcorder. This camera is HD and is a vast improvement to Canon MD205 that

we used last year. Having a High Definition camera improved the standard of our video compared to last year, simply because the quality of the image on the video is so much better, it makes the

video look much more professional.

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Final Cut Express

This year we used Final Cut Express again to edit our video, like we did last year, but this year we used it slightly differently. Last year we edited in one line, whereas this year we edited in layers. This helped us get all of the lip

syncing perfectly in time and made it easier and more effective when fading in and out of different clips.

Survey Monkey

We used Survey Monkey in the exact same way that we used it last year. We used it first to gather an idea of what would be our target

audience and to see what they would want included in the video. We also used it for audience feedback, to see exactly what people from

inside and outside of our target audience felt about our video

Photoshop

We used Photoshop to edit our Magazine advert and our Digipak. We used it to add effects onto pictures we had taken with smart phones and we also used it

to edit things like contrast and lighting to make pictures look similar to each other. We needed Photoshop to make our Digipak, as we needed to include

many photos into a template. I used Photoshop a lot compared to last year, as it was a fundamental tool this year, whereas last year it was barely used.

Prezi

I used Prezi to answer Question 1 of the Evaluation. This helped me as it presented my work in a new and interesting way, and it was different from anything I have used before. As I didn’t use

Prezi last year, it improved the standard of my work substantially and gave me a clever way to convey the information.

Youtube

We used Youtube in a similar we to what we did last year. First to look at other bands that videos,

so we can draw inspiration from them, and then to upload our video and share it with

other people.