2. In the construction of our media items the
internet played a vital role in the final product
we created. For research we worked with our
teachers to look at past examples of this
media assignment created by previous
students and what they did successfully and
what they could have done to improve their
products. This previous work was kept on the
school hard-drive which we searched through
and saved the work we thought was best in
our own areas to annotate.
3. Before attempting both our print work and
music video we used the search engine
Google to find the most appropriate software
to edit/create our products with. YouTube
was also very helpful in deciding what
software to use as the videos we looked at
had tutorials which showed how easy the
software was to use which assisted when
choosing the software.
4. For the print work we used Photoshop CS6
which is a regularly updated programme,
meaning we were able to create professional
looking advertisements and digipak artwork.
5. YouTube became an invaluable tool in the
formation of our music video, as the majority of
artists upload their music videos on to YouTube so
it was very easy for us to search for media products
related to the genre of music the song is from and
a good idea at the age demographic we should be
aiming for as those who commented on the video
had profiles with their age in their bio.
6. Twitter allowed us to see what ages were
currently talking about the song, the band
and the video which I think when viewing the
videos content you can see was aimed for a
primary 15-25 year old age gap. Twitter also
allowed us to try and make contact with the
band.
7. When evaluating our products here I have
used a PowerPoint which is then uploaded to
my slideshow.com as I felt with this question
due to its more factual topic a video format
would not be suitable. However for our other
questions we have used Windows Movie
Maker for a video answer and the very
productive Prezi programme to show another
example of how media technologies have
been used when evaluating our media
products.
