The document discusses how the author used various media technologies in constructing, researching, planning, and evaluating their music video project. They used video cameras, animatics, memory cards, and Final Cut Pro to film and edit footage. They also utilized a Flip camera, hard drive, MP3 player, iTunes, and YouTube in the process. Photoshop, digital cameras, Microsoft Word, and Google were employed to design promotional materials like a digipak and advertisement. For blogging, the author made use of a Blackberry camera, Google, Prezi, SlideShare, GoAnimate, Kizoa, and Photobucket to document their process and research.

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

2. The different technologies
 Music video
 Digipak & Advertisement
 Blogger

3. Music video technologies
 Video camera
 Animatic
 Memory cards
 Final cut pro
 Flip camera
 Hard drive
 MP3 player
 iTunes
 Youtube

4. Video Camera
 In order to get my actual music video together I have to
use a professional camera the lowest one in its range in
order to get the footage I needed for my music video. I
had to have a fully planned schedule to book the
equipment out for film days.

5. Animatic
 We had to make a storyboard before of all the shots we
were planning to take, although we changed our plans
completely this was a guide to remind us of all shot
range that we need.

6. Memory cards
 We had to use the memory cards in order to store the
footage that we filmed. Without the cards we would
have nothing to transfer the footage to the hard drive
with. Therefore we had to heavily rely on the cards and
make sure they were working.

7. Final Cut pro
 To do the main part of my work, I used this programme to
produce my media product (the music video). I used various
features on it like colour corrector, transiting and adjusting the
framing, marking the basetracks for lip sycing. Using colour
corrector helped bring a warming effect to the music video to
reflect the pace/tempo of the music video. It also helped to
evoke emotion from the audience as it was slightly darkened
rather than bright.

8. Inputting footage Rendering
Using transitions
Inputting footage
Using transitions
Colour Corrector Colour Corrector

9. Flip Camera
 I used the flip camera to record all the backstage
happenings and also used in the beginning of the
planning of the music video as tester shots of potential
people who would be the artist.

10. Hard the most important equipment
 The hard drive was one of
Drive
needed as without this we would lose all of our work.
The hard drive was used to store the Music
video, Digipak and Advertise.

11. MP3 Player
 We had to use a MP3 player when we was filming as I
have to sing along with the song very loudly so that
when it came to the editing part it was easier to put the
footage and the song in syc. Therefore the mp3 player
became something that we relied on.

12. iTunes
 I used iTunes to download my song for the music video
which is the new and most common way of buying music
rather than getting through piracy because the quality on
iTunes is the studio quality rather than just a copy of it. I
also made reference to iTunes when I was doing my
advertisement.

13. YouTube
 I used youtube to find good examples of music videos of
the same genre of my music video and looked at their
conventions and compared it to mine. This was the main
source for comparing and researching different music
videos.

14. Digipak & Advertisement
Technology
 Photoshop
 iPhone
 Digital Camera
 Microsoft word
 Google

15. Photoshop
 I used photoshop to create both my digipak and
advertisement. I had to learn the skills to create it from
scratch and after a while I managed to use my initiative
to figure out the rest. I used various effects on the
pictures especially the warming effect because I wanted
the visual link to be clear, so making the pictures have a
warming effect helped to link it to the music video.

17. iPhone
 I used my iPhone to take some of the pictures as the
camera for the iPhone 4s has very good quality and
having the best quality for the photos.

18. Digital camera
 I used a digital camera to take some of the pictures for
my digipak and advert. If the background was dark the
quality was not that good but when against a white
background it looked really good.

19. Microsoft word
 I used Microsoft word to find the right font for the digipak
and for the advert as this was conventional.

20. Google the different types
 I used Google to do the research on
of real life media digipaks and adverts and tried to see
all the conventions of a digipak and how they put certain
things in certain places for manipulation.

21. Blogger Technologies
 Blackberry Video Camera
 Google
 Prezi
 Slideshare
 Go Animate
 Kizoa
 Pictures & Links (Youtube)
 PhotoBucket

22. Blackberry Video Camera
 I used a blackberry video camera to do all of my
vlogs. The reason why I chose to use this
technology is because it was easy access and I
owned it therefore I could do a vlog whenever I
wanted to. Whereas the flip camera could only be
used on college premises and was not allowed to
be taken home after the filming period.

23. Google
 I used Google in this context to do research on the music
industry, theories and other things related to media

24. Prezi
 I used prezi to put all my research on. I used prezi
because it was a more creative version of powerpoint
and you could add video links as well as pictures and
words. I also used the prezi to do my mood board as
well.

25. Slideshare
 I used slideshare to upload all my powerpoints. In most
of them I used it to analyse my media products and to
analyse whilst doing my research.

26. Go Animate
 I used Go Animate to review how my progress in
blogging is going. This was very effective because I was
able to ask questions as well as answering them so it
was very clear how I felt about my blog progress.

27. Kizoa
 I used kizoa to display pictures of my
digipak, proudction, research, activities, filming and
advertisement.

28. Pictures & Links (Youtube)
 I used pictures and links to explain point in depth and in
detail about various theories.

29. Photobucket
 I used photobucket to upload pictures of everything I did.
For example, digipak final, digipak mock
up, advertisement final, advertisement mock up, photos
of my group and I and creative things that I done to show
what my artist will be like if they become famous.