Evaluation Question 3!

Over the past two days Amy and I have been working on question 4 of our evaluation "What have you learned from your audience feedback?" For this question we are filming ourselves speaking and then using final cut to add in relevant images and video clips alongside the clip of us talking.

Yesterday we managed to film the majority of our answer, but it did take us a long time as we kept messing up and ended up writing on the board behind the camera so that we were able to read it whilst being filmed, and so that the camera wouldn't see the script. Once we had done this, the filming went a lot more smoothly, and during our first lesson today we managed to film the rest of the answer!

In our second free of the day Amy and I imported the footage onto iMovie and the exported it into final cut where we began our editing process. We managed to cut out all of our voicing mistakes, as we did find it hard not to laugh :) Amy and I then proceeded to download some YouTube Videos, for example 'The Fray - How To Save A Life' so that we were able to use it throughout our evaluation when we talk about how we were originally going to do the idea of how to save a life.

Finally, Amy and I got the original script for the answer to question 4, and started to annotate it with ideas of what we could possibly put on screen with us during the evaluation answer. After doing this we went on to download a series of images for the first paragraph, and then imported them into final cut so that we were able to use them as part of our evaluation!

So far we have edited in a few clips and images, but this is how much we have done over all:

 After Amy and I have finished editing this answer we will be completely done with our evaluation! (Unless our teacher suggests any changes! )

P.S. Below is a draft version of our evaluation, including all question answers apart from the one we've been working on this week! Sadly we couldn't import the answer question 4 as a powerpoint, as it just came up as another Prezi, and we can't really use that technology again! So instead as it is the last question, we have inserted it as a hyperlink, which when clicked will take you to our Slideshare of the powerpoint we made! Also. another issue we had with this answer was that we made our powerpoint very technical, with lot's of transitions, effects, etc.. but when we proceeded to upload it onto Slideshare (and some other powerpoint webpages) all the effects and transitions didn't work. Because of this, Amy and I had to edit our powerpoint and remove all the effects so that anyone watching would be able to clearly see all our text without images in the way.

Draft Evaluation!

This is a draft of our evaluation.
We have made a slideshow on slideshare for question 4 but we were having some problems uploading it on to our prezi... So, we are actually further along than this draft!

Evaluation update...

So, I haven't blogged in a while as I've been off school recently as I've had tonsillitis and a sinus infection! :(
Anyway, when I came back to school, I managed to complete the podcast! There were only a few blank bits, so it didn't take too long to do :)
We were having a few problems with sound though, so I haven't uploaded it to our Prezi evaluation yet. Caroline and I will check if it is perfect, and then will upload it to our Prezi once we're back at school.

But, now it's half term!
Before we broke up for school, Caroline gave me some notes she had made on question 4 for the evaluation. Over the half term, I am going to write the whole answer for question 4 and make a slide show. I will then upload the slide show to Slide Share and put it on to Prezi.
I am going to do all of this as Caroline worked a lot on the podcast without me, so this way it will even up each of our input!

Even more evaluation!

In my free today I aimed to completely finish our podcast!

I have changed quite a lot at the beginning where previously we had images of sentences of what we are saying. For example, we had us saying our piece and then just an image of the whole sentence: "We learnt about all the forms and conventions of real music videos so that we were able to interpret them into our own music video, in order to create a successful media product". Because this seemed too the same I have now changed several of these images of writing to smaller clips and images.

However, I still have not yet managed to finish the podcast! Hopefully one more lesson doing it and it should be finished.

Unsupervised lesson

Today we had an unsupervised lesson in which we had to continue editing our evaluation and ancillary tasks and then post them on the blog! As Amy was absent I just continued to edit the podcast for part of our evaluation, however we still have some gaps at the end and need to chnage some of the repeated pictures

Here are the gaps:

The other questions that we have done are on Prezi, but I don;t know our login so i can't actually post it here yet!

Evaluation again..

I have created a Pixton comic on what I did in my free today!

More evaluation

In my free this morning I decided agin to continue with the editing of our podcast! 

As we will be needing to use clips from music videos I have found a website that downloads YouTube videos into any format.. and it even works of the iMacs! So all we have to do is copy and paste the URL into the box, and it downloads the video into any format we need! 

This website is: http://www.clipconverter.cc/

I have only added a small section today, as i have left a gap.. this is because I was very unsure as to what to put in the space; so I will wait and see what Amy thinks on Monday! Over the weekend I will hopefully be completing our answer to questions 4: "How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?".