Diary Entry #34: Construction - Evaluation Question 4

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

Research and planning – with media, the construction and creation of products is revolved mostly around using the technologies to create an effective product. I had many different uses available to me for my media production. I used a range of different online tools to create my plans and research tasks and make them look effective including Slideshare, Prezi and Final Cut Pro to use to edit videos of research tasks I did and my frame by frame analysis. Because I used these in my previous year at college it was easy to get used to them again and now how to make them function. This made the tasks a lot easier because I knew what I was dealing with and what things I was limited to.

     Construction – the construction involved a lot of Photoshop and final cut pro. Because I am limited to college work as I don’t have the software at home this meant that I had to be specifically useful as I only had a limited amount of time to get my work up to the best possible standard. As a person I am able to quickly get used to technologies that I am not familiar with so this was effective when it came to time management. I was completed before a lot of others. Again, because I used Final Cut a lot in my previous college work I was able to find it really easy to adapt again and find all the effects and tools that I needed. However with Photoshop I found it considerably harder because I don’t use that much at all. This is where it became time consuming. When it came to the digipak I had to use Photoshop because it was the most effective to use for a CD cover but I found it difficult to use as although I’m familiar with a Mac it was difficult to remember the different functions and controls. However I got used to it quickly and completed the digipak as it was needed.

Evaluation – like research and planning it was easy to use a lot of online tools although the difficult thing was finding one suitable for the evaluation questions which made it look right and didn’t limit the post to the amount of detail used.