Evaluation Section 4: How did I use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages? - Script

RICHARD
Throughout the project I have been able to make use of new media technologies to help me progress. Each stage of the project has benefitted because of this and the video is what it is because of what has been available to me.

Whilst researching and planning the video the Internet played a huge part, locating videos and CD covers to analyse involved my old friend Google. Google maps also came in very handy when planning trips to film in London, as well as the TFL website for train information and a tube map. I also chose to create my storyboard using Premier which I uploaded to You Tube, so that I could access it from home as well as at school.

The production of the video involved the use of a Sony cam-corder to video the shots , my personal JVC cam-corder and 42” Sony television for the voyeurism scenes and the school computer with Adobe Premier Pro on it to compile the video and edit it. The main benefits of these different items can be seen easily when watching the final video. Premier has allowed me to fade characters into shots and transition between shots smoothly. Without video editing software of this type my options would have been severely limited.

Even items such as my tri-pod and home-made tracking devise, which could be easily overlooked as new technology, helped me to a great extent and would have been missed greatly had they not been available. I also had the use of a small, but clever, flexible tri-pod which came in handy on more than one occasion.
I was then able to create the Myspace page for the artist as well extra pages on Facebook and Twitter to boost the image of Project Eric through a viral campaign. The Digipack was created using Adobe Photoshop CS4 and the results would be very hard to replicate with a more basic version of the programme and virtually impossible without photo-editing software of any kind.
The final act was to then upload the video to the Internet and I did this through You Tube again and Vimeo, another video hosting site.
The evaluation has again required new media technologies to look like it does now, the filming was done on the previously mentioned Sony video camera and edited using Adobe Premier Pro.
All of the projected can be found documented on my blogger website www.bchsa2richard.blogspot.com.

Well, thank God that’s over………….