1. How did you use media technologies
in the construction, research,
planning and evaluation stages?

2. Mobiles
• Throughout the production mobile phones have played a huge roll. They have
helped to perform various tasks such as organising people, keeping dates, times,
shot lists on etc. and actually uploading images and posts to blogger when on
location by using the blogger app on a smart phone. With out the use of phones it
would have been much more difficult to organise the cast and keep updating the
blog.

3. Google
• Google has been used a lot throughout the length of the
production. It was used for various things such as the finding
locations, getting screen shots of locations, finding images,
websites for fonts literally anything we wanted to find out was
done through Google. It was especially useful when searching
for example images when doing the ancillary tasks, gaining
the information we needed to make ours look as good as
possible.

4. Blogger
• Blogger plays a very important role in anything involved with our course, all the coursework is produced
on blogger. Every element of our coursework is produced in a post on blogger on our own page. It allows
us to produce multi media forms our coursework which is more relevant to the course. Being able to
produce the post in a variety of multimedia options will help to gain the higher marks in the long run and
using a wide variety of different display options keeps it a more interesting Blog. The way the whole
program is laid out is very easy to use and is something that doesn’t cause problems when trying to
upload the pieces produced onto the page.

5. YouTube
• YouTube is another internet program that was used a huge amount throughout the whole
production. This is the tool we used to research all videos, the connotations, conventions,
trends, techniques everything involved with a music video was researched by using YouTube.
Without the use of YouTube it would have been much more difficult to gain the information
we needed to try and make a more professional looking video.

6. Prezi
• Prezi is a much more modern and interesting way of
presenting aspects that will be put onto the blog. It uses
different layouts and effects to switch between different
sections of the presentation. It is something we used as it’s a
multimedia piece that will help gain higher marks in the
course.

7. Twitter
• For some parts we used twitter to gain feedback, ask
permission etc. It has been a useful tool that without would
have made researching and the actual asking of permission to
use the song more difficult but as twitter has thousands of
celebrities using it, it was much easier to reach our artist.

8. Facebook
• Facebook was another social network site we used to ask for
information and gain feedback from peers and people our
age. It differs from twitter as feedback was from people more
our age and there was more feedback from this than twitter.

9. Still Cameras
• Whilst out on location, and when images were needed to be
put on the blog we used a variety of still cameras some being
on phones but the majority was taken with either a Canon
EOS 400d or a Fujifilm SS3300. They are cameras with good
quality so we can get the best results from them.

10. Computers
• The computers have played a very important role throughout
the course. All of the production and editing was done on the
computers. They are custom built computers specially
designed and made to make the tasks as easy as possible and
to run smoothly. They have had to cope with huge amounts of
work, images, songs and videos so it is important that they are
to a high quality and feature the best components. Although
they were custom built and had many top quality components
they didn’t perform as well as hoped, and didn’t compare the
previous computers which were the Apple Mac’s.

11. Sony Vegas
• The editing software we used for the
production was Sony Vegas Movie Studio
Platinum 12.0. The software was very
professional, easy to use and had a broad
range of tools to use. The layout was very easy
to use and the way the processes were
completed on the program made the task of
making the video a bit more manageable.

12. Sony Vegas
• Although the software had many good
aspects, it let us down on numerous
occasions. When editing the video’s the
software crashed, paused, and was slow
sometimes causing us to loose work.

13. Sony Vegas Tools
• Split screens, there is a certain sequence in
our production where the video splits into
three different sections.

14. Sony Vegas Tools
• Brightness and contrast was adjusted in the
production, this helped to improve the
appearance of some of the shots that looked
to dark, ones such as the club scenes.

15. Video Cameras
• The video camera’s we used were a standard definition Panasonic NV-
GS500B. This is a high quality camera and produces good footage with
easy controls and functions that helped us when filming. The other
camera that was used is the one we used most which was a high definition
Panasonic HDC SD700. This camera was even better quality and is what we
selected to use for most of our production as it was shot in low light levels
and the HD level shooting kept the quality and resolution high in the low
level conditions when the standard definition camera wouldn’t be able to
do so.

16. Tripods
• The majority of our shots in the production
were shot with the use of as tripod. This was
to keep it perfectly steady and makes the
filming easier, and the finished videos a more
realistic and professional piece.

17. Adobe Photoshop
• For the ancillary tasks photoshop was used to
edit the images used for the both aspects
(Magazine advert and Digipak). The software
is relatively easy to use and for both I and my
partner it was nothing new as we have used it
in other subjects before.

18. Adobe Illustrator
• This is another type of software that was used
for the ancillary tasks, after editing the images
in photoshop they were then loaded into
illustrator where cropped, and composed to
look like a professional finished piece.

19. Lighting
• For certain scenes in the production we used
the professional lighting in school. We used
the Chamsys Explorer lights set up in the hall.
This helped to create a more professional
atmosphere when shown as a final
production.