Media Evaluation Question 4 Final

I used many examples of hardware and software throughout the various production stages. This gave me some valuable experience and skill when using them.

In order to gain feedback on my video, I used survey monkey, which is a free online website. This was very useful, as this website is designed for sharing such surveys on other social networking websites such as twitter and facebook.

I put the link of my survey onto these websites, as well as on www.metalhammer.com, which includes multiple forums for me to put my survey on.

In order to gain exposure for my video, I put it on video sharing website www.youtube.com. This allowed me to see where in the world my video had been viewed, as well as being able to receive feedback from comments and whether people 'liked' or 'disliked' our video. I could also see which age group my video appealed to. 

Gender	Age
Male	18-24
Male	13-17
Female	13-17

In order to keep a record of everything I had completed on this course, I posted regularly on blogging website www.blogger.com.

If I ever thought of an idea which could be useful when it came to planning or production, I would blog it in order to refer to it later, or compare one idea to another. This was also a very useful website as it meant that I could access my work from home as well as at college, and I could also receive feedback from classmates and teachers.

When it came to creating my post-production texts, I used photoshop. This was a very useful design tool as it allowed me to access all areas of editing images, such as colour, exposure, contrast and much more. Photoshop is built on a very user-friendly interface, which made creating the texts enjoyable, as it was interesting trying out different types of editing in order to make an effective digipak and magazine advertisement.

CMOS, 6.1, Mega pixal, still image recording. These are some high quality cameras, and allowed us to produce some good footage of the band.We could also capture some high quality sound from the band which was useful when it came to editing the footage. We used a total of 2 of these cameras, as we wanted to shoot as much footage as possible. 

Sony handy cam, HDV, 108i/min DV. This, in reference to its name, is a very 'handy' camera, as its small size make it easy to carry around and film. This would be a very good camera to actively hold and shoot close-up shots. The slight shake that would naturally occur when holding the camera turned out to be very effective, as it's 'out-of-control' style actually suited the genre of the song.

When editing, our group decided to use the 'iMovie' software available on the 'iMac'. The majority of the group used 'finalcut', but we felt that after creating a very good preliminary task and thriller opening in the previous year on this software, that we would be most comfortable using this software once again. This also meant that we could spend less time finding out how to use a new software when we could get on with editing. The iMac itself was originally a very difficult computer to operate, as the entire group was used to windows computers, but after a year of using this system we became very confident, and ended up produces the large majority of our work on these computer systems.



In summary, all these new media technologies were vitally important in the creation and planning stages of our overall productions. All the systems and software were simple to use, but it was the opportunities available to us that was most pleasing. These opportunities were most common in the actual production stages, when it came to editing the footage and creating the post-production texts. The websites we used to share the information, such as facebook and twitter, were very helpful in the sense that our video could be seen by friends, allowing them to give feedback. Our survey on Survey Monkey could then be distributed to these people.