Q4. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and reaserch, planning and evaluation stages? [testing]

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

Within the entire Media unit I have used numerous new media technologies from sites such as Youtube and Facebook to professional programs like Adobe Photoshop and Premiere. What you're reading right now is off a new technology known as a 'Blog' which I use to host all of my work. However to answer the question...

Construction
During the construction stages of my work I used numerous different programs from Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Elements to Microsoft Office Word and Excel. The beauty of the new technology available to me as well as the new digital technology such as Camera's and Video Recorders is that I am no longer restricted to doing my work in a chronological order. Non-linear editing is born!

These programs enabled me to use an amazing array of different tools to change, distort and even transform my work into the images you see throughout my Blog and in the Prezi above. An example of the affects I used just look at [ This ] blog post. Premiere likewise provided so many transitions I would never have been able to use in a simple program like Windows Movie Maker similarly it enabled me to change contrast settings and the actual speed of clips. Slow motion skateboarding is superb.

Furthermore new media technology enabled us to use stop motion within our video which is multiple images taken with only a slight moving of an item to create the illusion of an inanimate object moving.

Research
Research was made so much easier due to new technology. MySpace.com provided a platform to find Unsigned music as well an inspiration for Album designs. Facebook.com provided a platform to send out questionnaires and to gain feedback on my main production and ancillary texts. Then there was youtube! Without it I would never have found music video's to analyse.

Planning
The beauty of using Blogger over a normal work folder is that it allowed you 3 key things.

1. Share your work quickly and easily via a simple URL
2. Access your work anyway whether at school or home
3. Re-drafting work didn't require writing something out again just editing and reposting

This meant that when ever my group and I met up to discuss work whether via communicating in an email or in a group discussion at school we could all edit our planning to show these revisions. Such as when we decided to move away from a narrative and concentrate more on a performance style music video.

Evaluation
In the evaluation itself I have used all of the programs mentioned and even used a new technology called Prezi at the top of this post. Without these constantly improving technologies my work would have been far harder and I wouldn't have been able to produce almost professional like pieces.

The gap between professionals and amateurs is constantly shrinking because media technologies make tasks that were hard a year ago a piece of cake now. Amateurisation is a real thing constantly happening around us and my media products are proof of this. If you really wanted to see you would just need to surf youtube for a few hours and you would see an amazing amount of art and videos created by normal non-professional people.