Evaluation question 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Over the course of this project we have used some new and interesting technology to help us with the production stage of our video. One of the main technologies used was the sound editing room. Although we didn’t produce our song in there we learnt how to use the sound boards and cubebase application to make songs and edit sounds recorded and even record our own voices on top of a song. The main thing we used the room for was to get the shots of the sound board which we used at the strongest points in our song. The next piece of technology that we used was the green screen. We used this whilst on our photo shoot so that we could put any image or video behind the images when applying them to the digipack and the website. Another piece of technology we used was a different editing software called Vegas pro which we used to create the bar that comes on the bottom at the beginning and end of the piece. This was not that challenging but any problems we encountered were easily resolved by watching tutorial videos on YouTube which help in the process of operating the program. When we created the website we used Dreamweaver which was very tricky to use and caused us so many problems that we went looking for an alternative. The technology we found was a website called weeblee which was recommended to us by our teacher. This was very easy to use and helped us immensely when trying to get the correct style to match the other parts of the project. Finally we have used the same technology from last year such as the cameras and adobe software but to a higher standard and encountered less problems due to a better knowledge of the equipment.