HOW I USED TECHNOLOGY.

BY LARAH YEARWOOD

TYPES OF TECHNOLOGY I USED

AND MORE….

HOW I USED THE TECHNOLOGY: RESEARCH Whilst I was researching for this project I used

the internet to conduct my research about music videos and digipaks, and I posted my findings on blogger. I used animation apps, such as Pixtrix to annotate cd covers and adverts, and Prezi and Gifs to analyze music videos. Gifs were particularly useful when I was researching about mise-en-scene. I also used Youtube for my research so I could get some influence from already existing music videos, as well as Google images for use of synergy.

BLOGGER

Instead of just noting things down we uploaded and posted things to blogger. Whilst researching I posted my findings to the blog and got regular feedback from my teachers. I also used blogger to evaluate how I was progressing through the course. I was able keep track of what I was doing as my posts were in order and I could plan what to do in the project on blogger as well.

BLOGGER PICTURESI was told by me teacher that this was one of my best posts

I also have the most posts in the group.

VIDEO RESEARCH

Some of the research I did involved youtube. I had to analyse music videos. For example, some videos I felt had a good range of shots, good mise-en-scene and good editing. I also had to analyse videos that influenced me. This was mainly little mix and the saturdays videos as they are the same genre as us.

RESEARCH I also used Google for research on theories

about music videos, in particular from Andrew Goodwin and Carol Vernallis. I also used the internet to find out conventions about music videos and digipaks as well, as I needed to know the important do’s and don’t’s of the work and what I could possibly challenge. The group also set up a facebook account to conduct more research regarding our target audience and what they would expect or want to hear from us.

FACEBOOK PICTURE

This is our Facebook page for our imaginary target audience. Young women aged 15-23. She is 16 on our page.

OTHER APPS FOR RESEARCH I used the app GoAnimate to create a

conversation about the conventions of a music video, just for a little fun. I also used photobucket a lot when I took screen grabs of my research. These posts are up on the blog. I used apps that were new to me as well such as Animoto, Pixtrix and Slidely to be a bit more creative.

PIXTRIX

Pixtrix is an annotations app I used for research into my ancillary work. I was able to analyse digipaks and advertisements and also show the links to my work. I was also able to show how already existing work influenced mine.

EXAMPLES OF MY RESEARCH FROM PIXTRIX.

EXAMPLES OF MY WORK ON PIXTRIX

TWITTER

Whilst we were planning we decided to set up a twitter account for our group and post tweets updating our followers on how progress with the video and album were going. We also had a group twitter account to keep our teachers up to date with our filming progress. This was a new thing.

TWITTER PICTURE This screen shot

here show our twitter page updating fans. This helped the project seem a little more realistic.

FINAL CUT PRO

We used state of the art video cameras and memory cards for filming. We then put the footage into Final Cut pro to edit it all. Whilst using Final Cut we used things like slow-motion and color correction as well on our video. This was to make our video a little more professional and to follow the conventions, where keeping the audience entertained is concerned.

FINAL CUT PICTURE.

Excuse the poor quality of this picture, but, it shows color correction being put on our video It also shows our video being base tracked too which is another thing we did in final cut.

PHOTOSHOP I used the programme photoshop for the

construction of my ancillary products. I was able to use my skills to produce some good final products. I used shapes such as hearts for the synergy and logo as well as a gradient background for the inside panels and advertisement.

PHOTOSHOP

We started the ancillary work from scratch using only a cd template to guide us. We knew what the conventions were for a digipak and so I stuck to/challenged them. Having used photoshop briefly in the past I had a grip on the tools. I developed my skills to create all my ancillary work to a good standard. I used photoshop to re-size images, make them sharper, add shapes, color and text.

PHOTOSHOP

Shapes like this heart were what I used in photoshop for my ancillary work

THE END!!