1A) Digital technology Info + Practise question

Digital Technology -

Asks about your progress over AS to A2. Look at evalutaions questions from last year and this year.

Software:

• Adobe Premiere - Skills used in AS dancing bears, james bond, Juno, prelim, film opening and then skills used in A2 Banana Phone, Prelim, Music video. Skills on adboe could be cuts, export,frame size, camera angles, green screen, animation, colour correcting (FIND MORE IN DETAIL)
• After effects - Links to one above, did this in A2
• Photoshop
• Powerpoint 

Internet:
Presentational tools: how i have learnt about limitations aswell as positive

• Prezi
• Powtoon
• Emaze
• Slideshare
• Padlet
• Examtime
• Wix
• Social media
• Blogger
• Youtube - how we have used this to a better effect
• Audacity

Examples of Digital technology

• Camera
• Lighting
• Wordle
• Steal O matic
• Cloning
• Lego stop motion
• Photobucket
• Vistaprint
• Warp stabliser

Exam GUIDE
What did you do?
How did you do it?
How did you skills develop?
All supported with SPECIFIC examples
In relation to the areas in the question

1A)'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 productions?

In year 12 we produced a film opening, the EZ life. In year 13 we created a cross promotional campaign for a new artist, our artist was C.DOT. This included a music video, a website and a digipak. As a digital native, I have always being a media consumer. My A levels media studies course has given me a wide range of creative skills at which has turned me into a media producer. This has helped throughout the last two years as I have used a variety of digital technology such as different software’s, the internet and the online and presentational skills.

Before starting A level media, I used a small amount of softwares that I had basic knowledge on. Therefore my creativity was limited to the amount I knew. PowerPoint at this stage was the software which I used the most as it was simple to use. However after taking media at AS level, I used a new software Adobe Premier at which over that year I progressed my skills and teached myself various different editing skills, from creating a dancing bear sequence which required lots of cutting to our prelim task at which we had to colour correct certain shots in order to increase the quality which took a lot more detail than just cutting shots. At the beginning of A2 my ability to use premiere was at a good level and I felt confident in trying out new methods, although I still didn’t really have much knowledge about the effects that premiere could do. I did a banana phone task at which I created a stop motion animation alongside a cloning shot. This was very useful for our music video at which we used a cloning shot for our CCTV shots. Also in A2, I began to test myself on Adobe premiere after effects, at which I was able to create a billboard for our music video into anthor shot. Adobe after effects was a lot more complicated and it is now something at which after the last two years I feel comfortable using.

As a media consumer before I took Media at A level, I used to use YouTube by just watching small videos. However over the last two years I have not only used YouTube as a way of watching videos, but also as a way of uploading various videos and tagging them in labels. The use of labels allows videos to be seen in a particular section such as the media tag on YouTube. From this in A2 I am now using YouTube as a presentational device which can enhance the video itself this is through the use of annotations at which I have used to portray various messages across. I also played around with some series of effects which YouTube has like the enhancements which change the image through different colours.

The internet for was before media was used for research, or for social media accounts such as facebook and twitter and in year 11 I was given a step by step guide at how to create a small website. In year 12 I began to get involved in presentational tools on the internet such as Prezi. Prezi was a tool at which it was a level above in anything I had seen before, it has nice transitions aswell as a variety of methods to show information on such as the variety of boxes. The layout on Prezi was very easy to use once I got the hang of it and it allowed me to be as creative as I wanted, I could make the transitions which I wanted. However, in year 13 I had to create a website which correlated with our music video, I used a website called Wix at which I had to create a website by myself without a step by step guide. This although I found difficult this allowed me to produce the website as I saw fit, it allowed me to be more creative. In the past as a media consumer I would have been looking at other websites however after the last two years I have been able to create a website. 

Feedback on this Essay
12 or 13 out of 25
Good intro
Need to be more reflective, dont just focus on what you did but HOW WELL YOU DID IT AND HOW YOU DEVELOPED IT.
Explore it in relation to codes + conventions and media products.
Consider creativity side more
Your structure is an issue it stops you exploring development