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

I have used many new media technologies when producing my media package, these vary from Microsoft word to PhotoShop. During these past two years I have learnt how to use many new technological programmes and have been able to take advantage of the recent advances in web 2.0.

My skills in PhotoShop have progressed radically during these two years, in my production i used many tools to ensure my magazine and poster were as realistic as possible, here are some examples of tools i used:

• Filter
• Brightness

• Exposure
• Contrast
• DA font
• Crop
• Burn
• Layers
• Quick select
• Rubber

All these tools helped me in producing an effective media package. See my previous blog posts for evidence of me playing around with these tools.

Web 2.0 has been extremely helpful in both research, planning and evaluation stages. For example Blogger has allowed me to publice all my information and reserach in a clear and sophisticated way. I have learnt how to embed codes easily and prduce high quality, clear work.

I have used Flickr as a photo forum to slide show my photos in a funky and different way, I created myself a new account and can now use it to produce photo albums to share on different media forums, Evidence of me using this is seen on my blog.

SlideShare has allowed me to present intricate presentations in a easy way, Signing up to an account last year, it has benefitted the way i have presented my work. Microsoft Powerpoint is needed to put a preasentation on SlideShare, as a universal product i found it easy to use and was another way of presenting my work.

 

I was introduced to a new way to evaluate my work - Prezi, Prezi is a web based presentation application and stroytelling tool that uses a canvas insead of slides. It was hard to understand at first but once i had taken the tutorial i had got to grips with the controls and began to create my own 'journey'. DA FONT is a website that i have used throughout these two year. It has been a great realiable website that has allowed me to experiment with suitable fonts that fit the genres i have been researching.

Youtube has been a fantastic resource i have used for research, it has enabled me to anlayse and understand trailer conventions. It helped me dramtically for the contruction of my trailer.  Twitter and Facebook, both extremely successful social networking sites have enabled me to arrange my actors and promote my media package. I have tweeted asking people to take a look at my trailer and comment for reviews that could improve my trailer.

 

The video equipment I used was as follwed: Panasonic HD, this enabled me to have a high quality video shots, it always had lots of settings, such as; white balnace, red eye and brightness - these all helped me capture a good video.

 

Overall I have benefitted a lot by using all these technologies, they have contributed greatly to my final outcome.