Evaluation question 4

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

The different technologies that I have used throughout the course I har used photoshop for both years of this course. Last year in my AS media course I used it for basically all my product, this wasn't my first time using photoshop as I had a little experience in it from my photography gcse in Comprehensive school, so I didn't learn everything from scratch again, I was also taking As photography for my first year in college so again this gave me a head start in producing my piece. This year I have n even greater understanding in Photoshop as I have carried on taking it in my A2 year, the tools are basically the same and I have no trouble with Photoshop at all, the tools I used this year where mainly the crop tool and the colour balance, I only used photoshop for my website and CD digipack and nothkng else.

Blogger this year was mainly a new thing because last year I had chosen the choice of using Tumblr because I had already had an account that I didn't really use, tumblr was hard to navigate and hard to put your posts in order that's why I started using blogger. Blogger is really helpful and easy to navigate, it really helped me in my research and planning as it was simple to add photos and videos too unlike tumblr where you had to write everything in Microsoft word then save the file and upload it to your dashboard.

My mobile phone is a very useful bit of technology that I was able to use greatly this year, my phone is an Iphone 4 which is great for taking pictures and shooting videos with as it has a decent quality picture, all of my photos and most of my music video was done using my phone as it easier to handle and lighter unlike a heavy camera or recorder. Apple which is the company of my phone have apps which you can download some for free and some you have to pay, but it also has blogger as an app so this I was able to upload anyhing I wanted were I wanted and this was very useful.

Another very useful technology that was new to me in my A2 course was Apple Mac Computers, they are the same company as my phone so it's easy to combine the both. The Macs also have hundreds of more programmes then the normal computers which we used to have last year, they have the important programme that was needed to produce my music video, it is called premier pro, this was also very new to me and with the help of my media teacher handing us a booklet of how to navigate Premier pro this was helpful but I was mainly self taught and if I needed any guide nice of help on it I simply went on there version of the internet called Safari- this is an app that is automatically installed and is faster than google chrome and internet explorer, I googled it so again and other useful technology was the internet.

The useful sites that helped me with my evaluations and planning consisted of Facebook and YouTube because on both I was able to easily upload my video to YouTube to gain feedback and then I was also able to link my Facebook with YouTube to gain even more feedback from my friends and family.