Evaluation Question 4

Evaluation Q4- I have done this question in the form of a Prezi

Brief overview of how I've progressed since AS media:

When I first began AS media, I was completely new to all of the software and hardware devices that we were able to use. I did not understand or recognise the potential that our camera's and websites offered us. Firstly, when being introduced to iMovie, I did not know how to cut shots to make it look professional. This was show in my preliminary task, when two people were talking. If you watched and listened closely, you would be able to see that there was a brief moment between each persons speech before we cut the shot to the next person talking. This made it look unprofessional. However, when faced with our A2 music video, I found it a lot easier to cut to the beat of the music, as we knew it caused a lot more effect and looked professional. We figured out how to zoom into the footage so we could cut it to the finest detailed moment, in order to make the music video flow nicely. We were also more able to play with the colour of our footage on this piece of software to make our graffiti locations seem more vibrant and stand out to our target audience.

In regards to Hardware, we were given better camera's in our second year in media. I found that I was able to make much better use of our camera's in our A2 year, as I was more familiar with the features it included. In my AS year, my footage was a lot blurrier and effected the professional standard of our overall footage. We also didn't understand how to utilise all of the buttons it had. However, in A2 media we were able to understand the equipment better. We used a button called 'sports mode', which enabled us to take moving shots of Mikah singing, without the camera going blurry or focusing on different objects. This overall meant that learning new aspects of the hardware given to us in the AS year, gave my product a much more professional end product in my A2 year.

When looking back at my blogger in my AS year, it was clear that I didn't do enough research on the thriller genre we chose. This was because I didn't make use of our software such as Google, Prezi, SlideShare, Wikipedia and more. In my A2 year, I made sure that I studied my genre thoroughly in order to clearly attract my target audience. As well as this, in my A2 year I learnt how to include GIFs, YouTube clips, live links, images and more, in order to show my viewers how I was able to vary my skills.