Evaluation Planning: Task 4

How did yo use media technology in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

• Youtube - watchded artists music as well as others from genre,
• internet - allowed us to access all the information we found other than our own personal opinions of the song
• used twitter to get feedback (eval)
• Blogger - its advantages over piles of paper, especially if you lose your storyboard (!), how you could amalgamate all your planning and research in one place, adding links, embedding videos...
• Digital cameras
• iMovie
• USBs etc to transfer data
•  (gimp & picMonkey) 
• Any challenges and how you overcame them...
• Finally, technological convergence - how all of this is available on one Apple Mac computer...

The use of numerous media technology platforms were incredibly useful in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages of our advanced portfolio.

We used YouTube in the construction and research stages to gain knowledge on the Indie Pop/Rock genre and our own artists personal style of music, to help make our product as realistic as possible. The internet allowed us to access this information as well as our own knowledge and information.

Blogger was a significant platform throughout all three stages of production. It allowed us to keep all our research and planning in an easily accessible place online that we could access whilst on set, making the filming process easier for us. In terms of evaluation, Blogger allowed us to refer back to information we needed to include that we had earlier documented.

PicMonkey was our chosen editing software to create our magazine advert and digipak as it enabled us to create a professional looking product, with easy interface and access to numerous styles, fonts and image manipulation layers.

We used USBs to transfer documents and data between computers at school and at home when email wasn't reliable or files were too large to transfer through any other means.

To creatively produce our evaluations, we used digital cameras and iMovie.

Challenges-lack of internet in the forest to access storyboards. We overcame by climbing to higher ground to get connection.