Digital Technology Essay Question

Digital technology turns media consumers into media producers, 'In your own experience, how has your creativity developed through using digital technology to complete your coursework production?'

As a digital native, I naturally knew a fair bit about digital technology which helped me get started with my coursework production. however I have developed my creativity and technology skills throughout the time I have been been working on my media productions for the last couple of years.

At the start of media, I set up a blog for myself to display all of the work I had done throughout the year. When I first started using blogger I only used some very basic skills such as decorating the background which involved creativity. Also I posted a lot of Slideshare presentations as it was much simpler to create a Powerpoint and use Slideshare to transfer it onto blogger than it was to use any more complex presentation devices. As I started to get more experienced with blogger I used much more creative methods to present my posts such as using Prezi and Emaze to add sound and movement to the presentation, making it more interesting for people looking at my blog to watch. Furthermore I started to add more links into the blog such as social media links and links to all of the blog posts, making it them easier to find.

When I started using 'Adobe Premiere Pro CS6' I created really simple edits such as dancing animals which just consisted of cutting clips together to make a montage of dancing animals. I learnt the basics of importing and exporting videos which came in helpful later on through my time as a media student. When i started to create our group film 'Parallel' I used much more advanced and creative techniques in order to

Digital Technology

Software 

Premiere

- Dancing animals (beginner)

- Juno (beginner)

- Prelim (putting into practice)

- Film opening (More enhanced work)

- Banana Phone (experimenting with different techniques)

- Music Video (using all learned techniques, putting into complicated video

Photoshop

- Used rarely before media, mainly mucking about with existing pictures

- Genre photos (very simple)

- Film cover (More complex)

- Digipak (very complex)

After Effect

- Briefly experimented with after effect for the eye shot, but decided premiere was the best option to use in order to get a good and smooth effect

Hardware

Cameras

- Knowledge of how to use the cameras, less experience = shaky shots, worse qaulity

- Jake Wynne day experimented with camera angles and moving camera shots, helped with our music video 

Internet

Section A: Question 1

5 areas that come up in this question:

- Research and planning
- Using Conventions
- Post Production
- Creativity
- Digital technology

Things to consider in each section:

Research and planning

- Pre existing media

- Storyboard

- Moodboard

- Similar media

- Pre production

- Analysis

- Industry research

- Production research

Conventions

- Existing media products

- Editing

- Mis en scene

- Font

- Sound

- Layout

Digital technology

- Premiere

- Photoshop, green screening

- Learning

- Emaze, Prezi

- Cameras and lighting

- Blogger

Post Production

- Evaluation

- Editing

- Distribution

- Sound

- Titles

Creativity

- Inspiration

- Ideas

- Unique

- Problem solving

- Production style

- Creative skills

- Ambition