Evaluation Q4

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

To create my video, I used different technologies and software to make my video, magazine cover and digipak cover.

First I began with the researching stage, which was finding what consumers/audience like and what they want/ look for in an media product, so I could try and incoperate some of those ideas into my work.
I already had my idea of what my product was, however I searched and analysed music videos from Youtube, to see how I would go about creating.
I also analyse magazine covers to get an idea of the layout and appeal it has to it's intended target audience, so for me this was the alternative rock scene.
To gather more information from a consumers point of view and devised a questionnaire to find out what they expect to find in my products.

Once I has as much information I needed I bagan planning and creating my production work.
For the magazine cover this meants using the internet to search for already established/ well known magazines.
For the video, this meant using technology such as a camcorder, digital camera, tripod etc, to shoot my video and take pictures for my magazine cover.

SAMSUNG Camcorder









Olympus m840 8.0 megapixel camera.

After filming I started editing my footage,which from this point on was computer based work, and to do this I used VideoPad Video Editor. This is a software that allowed me upload my video footage, music to enable me to cut and trim videos to shorten for an specific shot. Add effects, for example black and white, and also transitions, like fade, dissolve etc.



VideoPad Video Editor






As my track for the video was to long I had to shorten it, so to this I used a programme called WavePad Sound Editor.
This allowed me to split the track at specif points then I could merge them together.


WavePad Sound Editor








For editing photos to create my magazine and digipak cover, I used Photoshop CS3.

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