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

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

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Prezi

1.      I liked the way that prezi animated the text and images and was similar to powerpoint, however more advanced.

2.      It has many ready-made themes to choose from that each provide an interesting design to make the presentation look interesting to the viewer and makes a change from the traditional powerpoint style presentation that many people are used to.

3.      The main issues I had with Prezi were that it sometimes did not embed properly into my blog; however this was resolved as I also provided a link to the site of the Prezi. The other issue was that it did not spellcheck my work as powerpoint does, this meant that I had to be more careful about making silly mistakes in my typing as I found a few when I proofread the work.

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Slideboom & Slideshare

1.      These were both sites that provided almost identical facilities; the ability to upload a powerpoint presentation and then embed it onto my blog. They are clear, easy, and straightforward to use and I had no problem when using them at all.

2.      They were easy to embed and provided an effective host for the presentations that I created using powerpoint.

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Timetoast

1.      I used Timetoast when I created my timeline of iconic music videos. It was easy to embed on to my blog and created an effective timeline that showed the many videos from Michael Jackson to Owl City over the period of time that they were each broadcast.

2.      The only problem I had with this site was the small character limit for each event on the timeline, this meant each of my pieces of annotation had to be precise and to the point.

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Visme

1.      I used Visme to create my audience profile presentation. I like the way that it used an advanced powerpoint style technique. There are pre-set themes for each slide that I added to the presentation that were easily customisable and each one had a variety of graphics and such available to be added to relate to each part of my presentation.

2.      The only problem I had with this software was that it was fairly slow to use and made it time consuming to create the presentation.

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Checklist

1.      I used this site to easily navigate and plan my shooting schedule and work out which shots I had already filmed and which ones I had remaining.

2.      It was very simple to use but did not embed properly into my blog.

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YouTube

1.      I used YouTube mainly when I have been researching the music videos that have inspired my journey during this process. It is easy to navigate and I like the way that it suggests other similar videos at the side to the one that I am watching. This allowed me to find many videos all in the same area that I have been looking at that I may have not previously known about.

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Microsoft word

1.      This software I have used many times in the past and it is easy to use and navigate. I have used it in the making of my media products when I have been using online software that do not spellcheck my work, I run it through word to make sure I have not made an obvious mistakes.

2.      I have had no problems with this program.

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Wordpress

1.      My blog is hosted on wordpress and I have found it easy to use and navigate, as well as providing several options for themes that are each customisable to a certain extent which was useful.

2.      I have had no problems while using Wordpress.

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Padlet

1.      I like the way that Padlet allows the user to create something similar to a notice board with text, images and links. This is an effective way to present my work and I have used it for this evaluation question and also when I experimented with the fonts I would use for my ancillary task.

2.      Overall I have enjoyed using Padlet as it is easy and clear to use. However the only problem I have had is when I embed it, I need to choose the correct size to fit on my blog in the size of pixels so that it does not overlap with the navigation bar at the side.

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Microsoft powerpoint

1.      I have been using Microsoft Powerpoint for many years so I am familiar already with how it works. It is very useful to create presentations with the ability to choose specific themes or templates and such to make them look more interesting. This software is very easy to use and I have used it a lot during the process of my media course.

2.      To embed a powerpoint into my blog, however, I had to upload it onto a site online such as Slideboom or Slideshare which allows anyone to see it. I had no issues with this software and enjoyed using it.

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Thinglink

1.      I really liked using thinglink to create interactive annotation on images. I used it to explain the choices of my moodboard as well as my in depth lyric analysis for my song. It was also easy to embed into wordpress which helped to make my blog look effective.

2.      I had very few problems with this site and really enjoyed using it. However the only issue I experienced was that there is a character limit on the annotations which could easily be resolved by creating another annotation with the continued explanation.

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Photoshop

1.      I used Photoshop in my media project when creating the moodboard and the ancillary tasks that included the album sleeve and the magazine advert.

2.      I have used Photoshop before so I found it easy to use and navigate and it creates a professional looking product. I could edit text and images to make an interesting album sleeve as I used drop shadows and strokes on the text to make them stand out more and not look too flat against the image behind.

3.      During the process of creating the album cover for my artists I experimented with opacity and using stills from the music video. This was an alteration from my original draft and idea for the cover, however I felt like with the original idea I would not be utilizing Photoshop as efficiently as I could to create a complex image whereas now I was able to experiment with opacity and layering.

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Premiere pro

1.      I have used premiere pro in the past and used it in this project to construct my final music video as well as to piece together  my animatic and create my preliminary task. I like the professional look to the things I created.

2.      I did, however, encounter an incredibly major issue with using this software that strongly affected the way that my final product turned out. The software that I was working with was outdated and did not agree with the footage that I had captured on my camera; it sped it up considerably but then ran out of footage to screen so turns a harsh red colour for the remainder of the time that each piece of footage was expected to run.

3.      I was unable to find a solution to this problem and it was incredibly frustrating to slow down and cut each piece of footage I used, especially as the corruption of it meant that many frames were out of place making it jumpy and it lagged. To work around this issue there were several more corrupt pieces of filming I was unable to use but the less corrupt pieces I had to manually remove individual frames that were out of place. This was time consuming, tedious, and difficult and made it much harder to stay on top of my work.

4.      Premiere also took a long time when I opened it at the start and sometimes took several tries before it opened and loaded properly.