How did you use new media

How did you use new media

technologies in the construction and

technologies in the construction and

research, planning and evaluation

research, planning and evaluation

stages?stages?

How did you use new media

How did you use new media

technologies in the construction and

technologies in the construction and

research, planning and evaluation

research, planning and evaluation

stages?stages?

By Rafael Gough

I used new media technologies in all stages of my coursework. In the construction, I used video editing software ‘Sony Vegas’ to compile and edit my video. Using this software was not easy at first but by the time I’d finished editing the video, I was confident in using the basic features. I added music, made the video black and white and spliced many clips together, even adding text over the video.

I used ‘Photoshop’ to produce the CD package and some of the images for the website. I am very familiar with what this software has to offer due to using it in AS Media Studies and in Photography A2 level. I improved my existing knowledge of this software using it in a different context.

Using iWeb I created the website. This was a very time consuming task as I have never used the software before but it didn’t take long before I was more confident. This software is rich in features and I was able to create an interesting homepage, and even some other pages that were hyperlinked to from the homepage. Though the brief only required me to produce a homepage, I went beyond this and created more pages in order to make all of the hyperlinks actually active. This makes the whole website much more real.

I used Apple’s ‘Garageband’ to create a ‘radio broadcast’ for one of the evaluation questions, and again for another question; to capture audience feedback. I recorded spoken voice, one section at a time and then edited it all together with a jingle to go with the radio broadcast. I adjusted track volume, fading in and out at the beginning and end and added an EQ to better the quality of the audio.

When doing research and planning, I used the internet and its services like YouTube to access music videos that I analysed using ‘Microsoft Word’. I used it again later to upload my own music video. PowerPoint was used to create this slideshow, enabling me to fit even the evaluation into the D’Addario style. I also used ‘Blogger’ and ‘SoundCloud’ to present my work electronically as a blog and as an audio file respectively. This shows that I am capable of using a wide variety of different new media technologies effectively.