Evaluation Q3 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research,planning and evaluation stages?

Technologies used

Blogger 'The backbone of my coursework' :)


Here is the transcript just in case it's not clear when my little friend says it.
Oh my GOD. I absolutely love the way blogger has helped me show everything I have done these past few months.Blogger is great as it's almost like a storage where I am able to put all my ideas, inspirations or any things that have gone wrong. For example the day we couldn't film at the excel centre because it was raining or the day when filmed but it was freezing cold and we couldn't feel our fingers .I think blogger is the back bone of my whole coursework as it's where all my planning, research and evaluation goes even though it can very annoying sometimes when the images you want to embed do not go where you want them. This media technology has been particularly helpful as my teachers are able to see what I'm doing and so I am able to get feedback from them.Things I'm doing well and things I should improve or add more of. I think this is the main media technology I have used and I thought it was great! GO BLOGGER!

Photoshop
Photoshop was very-very depressing at times, but I knew that the only way I would learn how to use it was by practising and experimenting with all the different tools, so I began to see what each tool was for. After Familiarising  myself with the programme I found it a lot easier to make my ancillary products. I particularly used the 'magic wand' tool as I had to cut out images like the swirl patterns and Emily's image. I also used the 'paint bucket' tool to select the colour of my background. Below are some screen shots of the tools I used and what for. 

This is a screen shot  of my digipak on Photoshop.

This is the inside panel of my didipak I used the layer-duplicate layer tool to duplicate the swirls and carry them out  through out out the panels.

 This a screen shot of how I converted my image into black and white. Below is the picture of how it looked.

Here is the black and white  image, this helped me see if the image looked good or not.
I liked the images with this effect so I used them for my final product.

This is what I clicked on to get another image of the same photo. I  duplicated the layer and so I was able arrange them the way I wanted.

I clicked here to open up new files  and images I wanted to use.

This is the toolbar on photoshop. I clicked on different tools to experiments with the effects it made. I particularly used the magic wand tool, the rubber tool, text tool and colour bucket tool.

Viola

My teacher suggested I use 'Viola' to annotate my digipak. I wasn't sure how to use it but I taught myself and I found it was a good media technology to analyse in detail the digipak. This had helped in the evaluation stage of my coursework. I have really been able to see what things I have done right and how I could improve it.

Here are some images of what I have done.

Using Viola

Analysing inside panels on viola

The Animatic

This is our animatic, we took several pictures and placed them on final cut pro alongside the sound track of our song which then became a small video clip.

More Technology I used