Olivia McKiernan- Evaluation

Q2

How Effective is the Combination of Your Main and ancillary tasks?




Q3


What have you learned from your audience feedback?

What have you learnt from your audience feedback? on Prezi

Q4


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

Throughout the whole project we used media technologies, from researching to uploading the final project. All of our documenting has been uploaded through posts on Blogger. By creating a page for our group we could all contribute to the blog as long as we had access to the internet. We found that it was good for documenting our work and displaying it but when it came down to adding images and videos, sometimes they didn’t load properly or ending up deleting work and meaning us having to start posts from scratch. Looking for music videos we used YouTube, and analysed the content, and came up with our own ideas. Some videos took longer than others to buffer but overall there weren’t many problems with the website. We used the internet search engines to research artists brand images, and books to find information on theories and inspiration, branding and audience. Researching theories and conventions we used the narrative and genre book and looked a chapter 4- The Theory of Genre1. We used Windows mail to get in contact with the X Factor contestant Diana Vickers who is also from Blackburn, as some of our friends knew her; this seemed a great opportunity to ask permission if we were able to use her song ‘My Hip’. We used latest technology video cameras to capture our video, 3 in fact, to get plenty of different angles of shots, this proved difficult when uploading as it took hours in total.

For the construction we moved onto the program ‘Final cut’, after a long process of learning how to use it and filming our video we were ready to edit it. It was a long process but we did it to a good standard. Out of our group, I struggled most with using this program as it was something I couldn’t grasp, I did all the lip syncing as it proved something I was good at. We got the hang of cutting the video up as our music was fast pace we had to make a variety of short cut shots for the video to flow with the music. Our group gained more confidence as the weeks went on and created a great final piece.

For our ancillary tasks I used Poppy’s SLR camera with a portrait lens, I was very happy with the results. We used butterfly lighting in the studio, as this is used in fashion photography very often to create a flawless look. Our use of Photoshop skills to edit the photos, as a group we are very proud of the outcome.

The technologies I used to create this evaluation were Scribd, and Prezi, blogger, search engines and blogger. Overall they have been easy enough to use, but Prezi took some time to figure out how to use. Scribd took a while for my work to upload and I have trouble locating the embed code. The way to upload photos onto Prezi was really simple and I am happy with the layout of the page as it makes this post visually appealing.

Its been a long process, and the blog has been very useful in documenting these past months and something we can come back and look at. The making of the video and ancillary task was really good fun and the overall outcome of using all the various technologies has been something I would do again. As a group we have all put in so much effort to create the Music video and ancillary’s and are very proud!