1. Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?<br />38862004197985-2286002597785320040083185 In our group we used media technologies throughout the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages. To start the construction and planning of our video we made another blog page on blogger.com for our A2 media portfolio. Having a blog meant that we could access our work through any computer and can even catch up on extra work at home. It also helped when organizing work and could keep track of deadlines. Blogger also enabled us to upload videos that were useful when it came to analyzing music videos of a similar type to our own. We could also upload Youtube video’s to our blog, which was good, when it came to analyzing and de-constructing different types of music videos. Social networking sites such as Facebook were also useful for producing feedback on our music video; we could then productively use our feedback in order to make our video better. Another social networking site which we used to prevent copyright laws from our artist Calvin Harris’s music was Myspace. We were able to send a message to Calvin Harris on his official Myspace Music page to ask for permission to use his song ‘Acceptable in the 80’s’. We used the website Prezi to present some of our work in the preparation stages, it is easier to view our work as a whole when being presented on a Prezi. A way in which we were also able to view To produce our music video we had to use Final Cut. It is a lot more advance and complicated than the programme Imovie that we had previously used the year before. We had a Final Cut tutorial to help us with the cuts, transitions, motion paths, zooms and all the other various features that helped when making our music video. Although Final cut was a lot more complicated to use it also made our work look more professional and was easier for us to make it more appealing. Our music video was made up from many different layers to ensure our lip singing was in sync with the music to exact time. The media department provided us with Imacs to complete our video, we found that as a whole the macs were a lot faster and more technologically advance than a normal computer, which we used to our advantage. For a particular section of our video we used the green screen to get special effects in our video to make it look more advance and realistic. We had a green screen tutorial to help us when using some of the equipment. When using the green screen we used Sony HDV cameras which gave us top quality footage. We had gained editing knowledge from our previous year in media studies. We used Photoshop to create our digipak and advertisement poster. We 34290004114800used the same bright vibrant colour scheme throughout all of our digipak so it looked more professional. It was difficult at first to get the accurate measurements for our design and the many different layers we had to build up because of all the 80’s theme photos on our design. But it was worth it in the end to have a design that looked professional and authentic. For our anamatic we used a Nikon D80 Camera to take photos of our shots and then upload them onto iMovie so we could then produce an anamatic of our music video. Finally we used a DV canon camera to record footage of our feedback from members of our class for the evaluation. <br />0-5499100<br /> <br />0-228600<br />-914400127000<br />-63500101600<br />