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

2. Throughout the process of researching, planning, creating and evaluating
my media product I have used a large number of different programs
including the ones shown below.

3. Research
When researching music videos, music labels, digipaks and advertisements
e.c.t I relied heavily on the internet to access all the information and media. I
used Google to gain information and Youtube to access both real and
previous students music videos, these websites were instant and very helpful,
the research process would have been much harder and time consuming
without them. I also watched the tv music channels when wanting to watch
videos from a certain genre seeing as they all focus on different genres of
music to satisfy their audience.
When watching videos on Youtube, similar videos were displayed down the
right of the page so that I was able to compare videos very quickly, the huge
number of different videos helped to inspire me and give me more ideas.
During the research process I was able to use my phone and Ipad, this made
the online media much accessible when on the move or when there wasn’t a
computer available.

4. Planning
I used Photoshop when planning my
media product so that I could experiment
with different images particularly with my
moodboard where I was able to present
all my ideas in a visual format.
I used excel to create a filming schedule
which was very easy to read to keep me
organised and on track throughout the
filming process.
Throughout both the Research and planning stages I used blogger to post and
update my work as I went along. This website presented my research and
planning very clearly , showing me what I was missing and had yet to complete
, keeping me organised. I was able to post photographs and videos and I think
that this website is very good for showing your progress and how you
developed into your final product.
I also used Prezi to present my research and planning in a more interesting
way, this was a website that I found was easy to use and access.

5. Construction
In the production of my music video and digipack I used my digital camera to film
ad take photographs, this was very helpful because its small and portable, but
also captures quite high quality footage. I used a tripod during the filming of my
music video so that the shots weren’t shaky and the transitions between shots
would be smoother.
These videos and photographs were then imported onto my laptop and then onto
Adobe Premier Pro where I could start editing all the videos straight away.
Abode Premier Pro is a very advanced
editing software that allowed me to
adjust each clip in hundreds of different
ways, which improved the continuity
throughout the video because I was
able to adjust the brightness, shadows,
contrast, saturation and temperature. I
was then able to choose from a huge
variety of video transitions and layer
videos on top of each other, because
it’s a timeline based editing software.

6. To create my digipak I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, this is a very
good editing software for editing photographs and I enjoyed this stage of
construction because I feel very comfortable using Photoshop.

7. Evaluation Stages
To complete this evaluation I have used social networking sites
Facebook and Twitter to share my music video to get audience
feedback, these are very good websites for this purpose because
they can be accessed by hundreds of people in less than a minute.
This also means that the video was seen by a wide variety of
different people with different opinions and preferred music genres