Showing posts with label Evaluation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Evaluation. Show all posts

Monday, 11 March 2013

Final draft evaluation

Today I have spent break time and my free period adding to question three of our evaluation. There are no major gaps now, so I've exported it, uploaded it to YouTube, and put it on to our Prezi!

Here it is:

http://prezi.com/yrordjvdr6xu/evaluation/?kw=view-yrordjvdr6xu&rc=ref-29136071

I also realised that we forgot to put a CD template on to our dijipak, so I've done that today as well and have put it into student drop for it to be marked.
But I'll also put it on here too, so here is our final dijipak:


Below is also a link to our final website that we created:


Changes I have made today include:
  • uploading our music video
  • making little changes such as moving around boxes and text to make them more symmetrical 
  • checking everything over to make sure it's okay!

Thursday, 7 March 2013

Editing evaluation!

Since the last time I blogged, Amy and I have been consistently working on our digital answer for question 3, "What have you learned from your audience feedback?".  For this answer we have ourselves verbally speaking the answer, and then using final cut to add in images, video clips and effects over the top. Through doing this we have been using a range of different technologies, for example and YouTube converter and downloader. In my free this afternoon I decided to continue doing this! We have a reasonable amount done, and I think it's safe to say we are nearly finished with the draft answer to this question. 

This is how much editing we have completed so far: 


Tomorrow the final copies of our music video have to be put in the student drop for marking!! Amy and I finished ours quite a while ago luckiy. However, we have decided that we do want to include titles in our music video, so we are hoping that in our free tomorrow morning we will have time to do this! 

Thursday, 28 February 2013

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.

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

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!


Sunday, 17 February 2013

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!

Wednesday, 6 February 2013

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.

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

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!

Monday, 4 February 2013

Evaluation again..

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


Friday, 1 February 2013

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?". 

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Thursday Update

 Check out my flow chart of what I have this afternoon!


This is how far we have gotten with our podcast for question 1 so far!  


Thursday!

In our free this morning Amy and I have decided to do some more work on our evaluation! At the moment Amy is applying more images and video clips to our podcast for the question "In What Ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?" She is including images and video from real music videos, as well as some from our own. To fill spaces we are including images and video of items that are relevant to the answers we have given to the question.

I have now began working on Question 4 of our evaluation; "How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?" In my free yesterday I made basic notes on some of the technologies that we have used throughout the construction and evaluation stages. I have found this question quite hard to answer because we have used SO many technologies for everything we have done.

Here is a word bubble of some of our technologies that I created on worditout.com:


Word cloud made with WordItOut

From this I have started writing out the actual answer, I have set it out so we will answer each bullet point for each technology in one section. For example I have spoken about YouTube in the research stage all at once.

Once I have finished this, I will email it to Amy as I did before so she is able to add in our make any changes that she would like to make. The technology we are going to use to for this question will be a powerpoint, which will then be uploaded via Slideshare or a similar website. Amy and I have looked at some previous student examples of powerpoints so that we have a basic idea of the sort of thing that we need to do. Most of the ones we looked at were about 30pages long, but this was probably the most detailed:




This is the beginning paragraph on Google and YouTube:


Monday, 28 January 2013

Evaluation update!

During Fridays lesson, I began making a Prezi for our evlauation.
Since then, I have completed question 2 of the evaluation on Prezi. I have added in all the text and lots of images to make it visually interesting for the viewer. Next lesson, I think Caroline and I should film ourselves speaking question 1 and then we can edit the video on final cut express; adding in images and clips from our music video (again) to make it more visually interesting. Finally, we can upload this on to our Prezi, and question 1 and 2 will be complete!

This is what I have done so far:

http://prezi.com/yrordjvdr6xu/present/?auth_key=txgz8hk&follow=no9q_cd7g9pl
Hopefully, by next lesson Caroline will have completed the evaluation script for question 3 and 4 so we can create a podcast for question 3 and come up with a new technology for question 4 :)

Friday, 25 January 2013

Website and Evaluation

In our lesson today Amy and I have been battling with Prezi to start presenting our evaluation! We decided to choose to a very simple layout because the website is so complicated, we chose a layout that originally looked like this:


To begin with we were planning on putting Question One the first box, Question Two in the second and so on.. Then we felt that this looked really boring and so asked our teacher what we were doing. Ms Hill then showed us these two Prezi evaluations done by past Media students- http://prezi.com/2ukkc5pqxsfm/a2-media-studies-evaluation/ and http://prezi.com/2ukkc5pqxsfm/a2-media-studies-evaluation/ Viewing these was a good thing as we were able to see what we were doing wrong, the main thing is that we have to use a different type of media for each question as well as using different types on media within each question. So we have decided to do one of our questions as a Prezi and then link it to the next question. We then began to put together a new Prezi, and we changed he background to a images that was actually related to our coursework.
This is the image we chose as our Prezi background:



Wednesday, 23 January 2013

Update!

During my free period last lesson, I was working on the evaluation script as Caroline said... And then my computer crashed and I lost everything! So I am no further with the evaluation than I was yesterday :(

In todays lesson, I will continue working on the evaluation script. And I will also work on the digipak. I bought in some CDs that have been made with Sony.
I have Pink's album The Truth About Love, Beyonce's album 4 and Rihanna's album Talk That Talk.

Pink and Beyonce's album are both made with Sony. Rihanna's however, is made with Jay Z's record label.
I thought we could copy either one of the information/layout on to our on one of these CDs as they are both made with big companies; therefore we would get the funding we would need for our album! :)

Tuesday, 22 January 2013

Unsupervised lesson 2

This is how much I have written for the evaluation script:


This is only for question 1; the first page and the first paragraph on the second page is all relevant to the music video and the second paragraph on the second page is the beginning of the dijipak. Hopefully, I will finish this tonight. And will be at least half way through question 2.
Therefore, tomorrow we will be able to start our evaluation as question 1 will be complete!