“Digital technology turns media consumers into producers”. In your experience, how has your creativity developed through using digital technology to complete your coursework productions?



In the two projects that we have carried out, digital technology has been absoloutely vital, without the use of the technology our final products would look nothing like they do now.
When we made our thriller opening, we were still experimenting with the equipment and software, as for many of us this was our first experience of filming and editing footage. Howver in our music video we were far more confident and were therefore able to be more creative with our techniques. We explored different camera shots, and more advanced editing methods.

For both of the productions blogger was used to record the planning and background research being carried out throughout the projects. My blog for my advanced portfolio is far more creative and visually appealing than my previous blog. On my original blog there were not many images and everything was done in less detail. Whereas this time, I used technology such as youtube, to upload my music video on to the blog, and also SlideShare was used in transferring powerpoint productions on to the blog. Last year I would not have even known how to do such things. When I compared the two planning blogs, it was clear to see my rate of progression.

The editing software imovie was used to edit and put together both of our productions. Even though we used the editing software, our music video looks far more professional and well made than our thriller opening. Our editing skills had improved vastly.

In both of our projects we changed our mind quite a lot. In the first project we changed our basic idea atleast twice, due to issues with lighting and technological problems that we could not get around. And when producing our music video, we changed our song choice quite a way in to the course so we did not give ourselves a lot of time. If our organisation skills had been a bit better than I feel our video would be far more complex and advanced than it is.