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

Technologies I have used are the following:

• Canon DSLR 550D and charger
• College Tripod
• Apple Mac
• Sandisk SD card 8GB

Computer programmes:

• Safari
• Messages
• Calendar
• iTunes
• Reminders
• iPhoto
• Quicktime player
• Preview
• Garage Band
• Final Cut Pro
• Microsoft Office - Word and Powerpoint
• Photohshop CS6

Internet sites:

• www.youtube.com
• www.slideshare.com
• www.goanimate.com
• www.prezi.com
• www.twitter.com
• www.facebook.com
• www.pinterest.com
• www.surveymonkey.com
• www.dafont.com
• www.picmonkey.com
• www.wyke.ac.uk
• Instagram

Through using these different media technologies, my skill base has increased massively wand so has my confidence with using the software. Some of my developed skills from using these technologies include:

• Photo manipulation
• Photography
• Following conventions of existing products
• Research and planning stages
• Post production
• Evaluation

Then through the process to A2, I have learned completely new skills, including:

•  video manipulation
• editing 
• shooting moving image

I have created a Prezi to show how I have used some of the above media technologies in more depth, so that I can also reflect on how my skills have developed and improved over the time period, as I went through each proccess of my coursework:

Final Music Video

Ancillary Texts In Action

Below are examples of how I will display my ancillary texts through different forms. This will promote my media texts and artist to a wide range of audiences. Furthermore, I decided to show images with my ancillary texts displayed in different countries, as this shows the effect of Globalisation and will create my artist to gain a mass audience globally.

 

 

 

I decided to add my magazine advert on a billboard on Times Square in New York as this is one of the most famous destinations for advertising. Furthermore, until I manipluated the photo via Photoshop to add my magazine advert to it, the image is original which I took myself from my recent visit to New York.

 

 

 

Final Magazine Advertisement

Final Digipak

Process Of Creating My Album Cover

Audience feedback on Ancillary Texts

Once I had created my digipak I wanted to gain audience feedback, to seek the opinions of my target audience to see if they found my ancillary texts aesthetically pleasing.

Although the majority of my feedback that I gained was positive, I received a correlation of people stating that they felt my magazine advert image was the strongest I had produced and suggested I shoud change the front of my album cover to also be this image. With this idea, I aprpocahed my media teacher to gain feedback from him and he also agreed with this idea.

Therefore, in order to make sure I was making the right decision, I created a survey with both images of my magazine advert image and my album cover side by side with each other and asked a random sample of people that fit my target audience to say which was their favourite, with the results displayed in a talley chart, as shown below:

My results of the survey show that more people found the image on the left more aesthetically pleasing and thus this influenced me to manipulate my ancillary texts, in orer to benefit media texts.