Evaluation question 4 - Billy Rosenthal

Evaluation question 4 - Billy Rosenthal

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  Evaluation Question 4: HOWDID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES? – BILLY ROSENTHAL
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  Survey Monkey  SurveyMonkey was used to create my survey for my target audience. The site was incredibly useful and also very easy to maneuver through which was excellent for me as I didn’t need to waste loads of time figuring out how to work the site. The site allowed me to create questions, whether it be multiple answer, rating questions or even ‘type your own answer’ questions to give my focus group the maximum amount of freedom when answering their questions.  There’s only one downside to SurveyMonkey however which luckily I didn’t run into but it’s now a paid service and not a free service anymore unless you created account before the change which luckily I did.
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  YouTube  YouTube wasused massively throughout the duration of my time creating my music video. Examples of it being used was during planning to upload my focus group analysis as well my animatic. Without YouTube, I also would not of been able to upload my music video to the web and would only be able to be viewed by audiences around my computer. It also has a comment section below videos which was useful as people managed to comment on my video giving me feedback after they had watched it.  It also helped during research as it enabled me to watch popular artists music videos tog ain inspiration for my own.  There was only one negative that I had discovered during my time using YouTube and it was that it would take an age just to upload and render one video.
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  Google  Google wasused in every aspect of creating my music video as it was the main link to all the websites and images that I had used during production. Google is a search engine which enables me to search for anything on the internet such as SlideShare that I am currently using now and of course YouTube.  During my time using google I ran into no problems at all apart from when I couldn’t access it due to a poor internet connection which isn’t anything to do with Google on their behalf.
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  Mobile Phones  Dueto me being a typical teenager, I always have my phone on me wherever I go as I use it to communicate with family and friends and it keeps me updated on the news around the world. During my time making my music video it served a bigger purpose than just that, it enabled me to contact my actors for meetups at certain times as well as enabling me to tell them what I needed them to wear in certain shots and scenes. It also allows me to download the Tumblr app onto my phone which enabled me to upload to my blog on the go if I didn’t have a computer nearby.  I also used my phone during the filming of my music video to play out loud the song that the actors are performing to to get the perfect lip sync for my shots. This made my music video seem more believable as it looked as if my actors were genuinely singing the song
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  Prezi & Slideshare Prezi allowed me to create online presentations. The reason why it sets itself away from the typical software of Microsoft PowerPoint, is that it enabled the user to upload their presentation online which shares it with other users. Prezi also has a wide range of customizable templates to suit whatever genre of presentation you need whether it be a resume to a poster. At first, it may take a little while to get used to the animation tools and to create a stunning presentation but after a couple of minutes on the site you start to learn the mechanics really quickly.  SlideShare is slightly different to Prezi as rather than creating content on their site and then sharing it with other users, you upload your documents such as word documents and powerpoints from your computer to the site instead. It is incredibly useful as it’s then easy to upload my work onto the site which creates a unique link for my work and is then able to be shared onto my Tumblr
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  Adobe Premier Pro I am quite familiar with Premier Pro as I commonly use it to create my own YouTube videos. This was incredibly useful as I felt I had an advantage over the others in the group as I didn’t need to learn any of the tools within the software as I already knew what they did and where they were.  I used Premier Pro for my final music video, my focus group and my animatic.  Although the software is great, I did run into quite a few issues with it which I normally run into when using it in my own time too. The program would crash on so many occasions during rendering which is incredibly annoying as this meant I had to restart the process all over again which took away a lot of my time during production.
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  Adobe Photoshop  Photoshopis a software which is owned by the same company as Premier Pro and is used to edit images and short videos. I have had experience with Photoshop in the past as it used to be a hobby of mine to convert old photos and restore them again.  I used Photoshop to create the thumbnail of my music video, I managed to blur the background of the image and add black bars to the top and bottom of the thumbnail to make it more authentic and realistic.  I also used Photoshop to create both my Digipak and my Magazine Advert.
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  DSLR Camera  I,along with many of my classmates, used a Nikon D32000 to shoot all my shots for my music video. These cameras are highly regarded for having immaculate HD images and is also praised for it’s lightweight and easy access for the most inexperienced photographer/ videographer.  The fact that the camera was able to shoot in 1080p video was a massive bonus too as it made the image much more clearer and made the video seem as if it was shot by a top tier filming camera.
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  Tumblr  Tumblr isa blogging social network platform which enables users to participate in blog entries and multimedia content. Tumblr is where you will find ALL of my media coursework as it is a convenient and handy site that enables me to title my posts, link other websites and upload images and caption them too! The fact that you can embed videos onto the site helps dramatically for anyone reading my blog as they can watch the video on Tumblr and then read my feedback or obvservations on the video below the embedded video in the same post.  The layout of Tumblr was also very easy to handle, when creating a post, you have 7 types of post that you can post onto your blog which are shown below.