Evaluation Question 1

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

There were several new technologies that we had used for our A2 project. One of these was using a question survey for our audience research. I used the question survey in order to get a better understanding of my audience and what they wanted to see in my media project.

For example the photo on the left shows one of the questions used in my question survey, which asks the age of the participant. From this I found that the average age of my audience is 17 years old. This meant that I had to adjust my film for this age group rather than trying to create a film that covers all age groups. This also allowed me to focus on a specific genre for the age group rather than trying to incorporate multiple sub genres to try and please all age groups.

Another example of my questionnaire survey is this question which asked the participator which genre of film was their favourite. Despite the most popular being comedy, we still chose to make the genre action, as we thought it would be easier to create, plan and film. Although it could have been an option to make comedy a sub genre, we thought it best to stick to one genre, due to the age group being 17year olds as stated in the previous survey question.

One other piece of new media technology that we used in our production was I-Movie. With our AS production we used a different editing software that was recommended by our school so we just went with that. However now for A2 we chose to use I-Movie as it was a software that we were both comfortable with and had used before which also meant the editing process went much quicker. I-Movie is also easier to import from computers and to youtube which is another reason why we chose to change editing software.







One other new piece of technology that we used was
a new camera. For our AS production we chose to use the 
Canon LEGRIA HFR706 Camcorder. We chose to use this camera because it was on the cheaper end go the market, but still had great specs that would allow for smooth and good looking filming. The  Canon LEGRIA HFR706 was also a good choice because it is easy to import and export from the camera to a computer and vice versa
which allowed us to quickly upload our project once we had finished it.

Evaluation question 1
Above is a link to our music video with an in-depth audio voice over for the music video, explaining the motives and decisions we made.