For my project I used many new different software platforms as well as some I already had a familair basis with, including word, pixelr, final cut pro, blogger pi, facebook, google, youtube and photoshop.
Most of my research was internet based as it is an instant way to share and receive links to information that can be obtained uickly and easier than if I were to ask people personally.
The most popular social platforms including facebook and youtube were the most useful at collecting data as they were most likely to get seen and shared. It was easy to upload my video and made it widely viewable for people to see, comment and share thoughts about.
Construction
In the construction stage of my project, I used a Sony camera that allowed downloading the footage onto an imac computer simple.
Finalut pro was good as it allowed me to make the video professional looking however may be a it complicated for someone with a very basic knowledge of how the programme works as there are many different aspects of it that require a good understanding. It did however offer good tools that made it easy to make the lip synchronisation precise and accurate enough to look in time.
Research
For my research I used surveymonkey as a data collecting site as it is specially designed to create personalised surveys and analyse results so that it is visually easy to recognise result patterns.
I found it easy enough to transfer this site onto blogger.
Google was my main search engine that is useful for anything from definitions to reports.
Youtube being the number one music video site was a useful aid when analysing music videos in primary research for my own. Looking at real media texts allowed me to evaluate what I liked and did't like about common aspects of music videos which could be noted and used to construct an idea for my own video.
Youtube was also handy as on my mobile device I was able to connect with it so that the original song that the duet sung could be accessed when out filming.
Facebook played a big part in communication not only to promote my video but to talk to the people involved in my project so that we could organise times and locations quickly and confirm when decisions were made.
Evaluation
Most of my evaluative work is done on blogger as it acts as a blank sheet that I can comment on and then work on at later dates. It acts as a diary I can add thoughts to to revisit later on and saves my work so that it is organised. I can edit my blog and how it can be seen however all my posts are communicated clearly through the blog in a satisfactory, easily readable way.
Blogger can be accessed through most devices including mobile phone so whenever I was out and about and wanted to upload something, it allowed me to do that.
The only troubles I encountered with it was sometimes embedding links to things like prezis that I required extra support for as an amateur blogger user. It does not offer tools such as being able to put in demographics graphs charts etc so I had to do this through word and typically copy and paste or screenshot it directly onto a post.
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