EVALUATION

Q1: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

 Q2: How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?

Q3: What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Question 4

 Q4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

BloggerThis was a very effective and useful technology to use at it helped us as a group to track the process of all our work. This meant we could keep referring back to our research if we ever needed help with a certain task or if you'd forgotten something important to do with your music video. Also, if, as a group we found some really interesting videos on YouTube or pictures on Google, which influenced us greatly, we wouldn't have to waste time trying to find them again as they would be posted on our blog. Blogger also helped us develop our ideas for our final music video and brainstorm new ideas which would help when making our video. Also, I find that using blogger helps you see how you have improved, which is very important; learn from your mistakes. Using blogger at home worked very well also, as if you came up with some really good ideas, you could just post it on your groups blog so these ideas could  be shared with the rest of your group without fail. 

Photoshop 
When creating our ancillary products, as a group, we used Photoshop quite a lot. It made it a lot easier to create the certain look we were going for to interest our target audience. It helped us create the 'cartoon-look' we were going for with our digipak. Here i learnt how to hand draw your own images and use different effects, such as 'grain' to make them look very professional. As a group, we experimented a lot when it came to using Photoshop. I certainly picked up some new skills which i can defiantly use in the future.  We wanted our magazine cover and digipak to come across very quirky, fun and original; like our music video. Photoshop helped us achieve our goal here. In my opinion, the final results were very effective and our star persona was presented exactly how we wanted. 

Youtube
YouTube was great when it came to research. We found many amazing videos which influenced us greatly. Without these videos our music video wouldn't have half the techniques and interesting ideas. Also, YouTube was useful as it taught us a lot about how lighting can be used effectively, which is very important when making a music video. I learnt a couple new skills when using YouTube. For example I learnt how to add annotations a video. This was very important as it helped me a lot when it came to completing my evaluation. YouTube also helped us when it came to Photoshop. As Photoshop isn't that easy to use, just by watching tutorials on YouTube we quickly picked up useful techniques to use on Photoshop. 

CONCLUSION 


Conclusion Q4
by: emilyrosemaryx