How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages? - Hibba Sayeed

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

2. Microsoft word
• Word was used in my researching and
planning as I had put my ideas on the blog
by writing them into word, then uploading it
onto slideshare. Also, word helped me write
things for my blog as it made it easier to
write it into word, and then make a
PowerPoint from all the information I had
written down. By doing this, it allowed me to
edit sentences and also made it clear as it is a
neat way to lay information out and makes it
readable without getting myself, or my blog
viewers confused. I also used Word for my
evaluation as I wrote everything down first,
and then made it into a
PowerPoint/video/Prezi. This again, made it
easier for me to just copy and paste what I
had written and allowed me to read over it

3. Microsoft PowerPoint
• PowerPoint helped me make
presentations. I used
PowerPoint for many
different things such as
presenting my own ideas, star
constructions, music video
analysis, and general research
on the music industry. By
using PowerPoint, it made
my work more presentable
and also allowed me to add
pictures to show examples of
what I was explaining. This
made my work visually
appealing, which would
make the audience want to
stay interested in my ideas
and what I’m talking about.

4. Slideshare
• I used slideshare to upload my
PowerPoint presentations and
Word documents. The slideshare
website was very handy as it
allowed me to upload my work
quickly, and then embed the
work onto my blog. This kept all
my work organized, as whenever
I needed to look at my work on
slideshare, everything was kept
together and I could easily
replace files, rather than deleting
the whole file.

5. Prezi
• I used Prezi as an alternative to
PowerPoint. I felt that using Prezi
allowed me to explore more with
being creative. I used Prezi to
analyse music artist’s websites and
also research on music videos. I was
able to be creative by adding the
artist’s music video in within the
Prezi, which would make it easy to
play so the viewers don’t have to
search it up. Using Prezi made it
more organized. I’ve used Prezi for
my evaluation as again I’ve used
different methods of media in order
to present my work and keep
viewers/audience interested in
what I have spoken about.

6. Powtoon
• Powtoon is also very similar to Prezi and
PowerPoint. However, I believe this website
has been the best in terms of creativity. I
used Powtoon to analyse Digipaks. When
analysing the Digipaks, I was only able to
have writing which lasted 20 seconds. This
was very useful as it made me realize that I
need to write a minimum but explain as
much as I can which meant I wouldn’t talk
about random things, but get straight to my
points. Also, I added music into the
Powtoon’s which were from the albums I
was analysing. By doing this, I feel that the
audience would want to carry on watching
what I have made and it would entertain
them at the same time due to the music. I
was also able to add in transitions and make
the images and text come in time to the
music which was good as it had a rhythm
and again keeps the audience/viewers
entertained and interested.

7. YouTube
• YouTube was used for various things
such as uploading, watching and
getting inspiration. I uploaded most
of my work onto YouTube as I
believe many people use YouTube
and that way, my work could be
viewed by people worldwide, and
maybe they could comment on it, and
tell me their views. I used YouTube
as part of my research to watch music
videos which allowed me to embed it
onto my blog so blog viewers can see
who and what I’m talking about. I
watched many music video’s on
YouTube to get inspiration and ideas
for my own music video which was
useful as it was free to watch and I
was able to watch as many as I
wanted.

8. Social Networks
• I used social networking sites
such as Facebook and Twitter to
see what stars were upto. This
was part of my star
constructions. Looking at these
social networking sites makes it
easier for the producer consumer
relationship as I also sent my A2
music video through Facebook.
This allows audiences to
communicate with certain
people/stars and share their
thoughts about things.

9. StoryboardThat
• StoryboardThat was used to create
my storyboard for my music video.
I used this website twice as I had to
change my first idea. Using this
made it so much easier to do my
actual filming, as I knew what I
was going to film and how it was
going to turn out and also what
shot types I should use. Also after
finishing my storyboard, it was so
easy to download the images onto
my laptop and then make it into a
movie on Final Cut Pro. By putting
it together I knew what was going
to be where in parts of the song.

10. iTunes
• iTunes was used as part of
my research as I was able to
find songs that I wanted and
then once I chose my song, it
was easy to buy it and then
use it. Buying it on iTunes
made it easier than
downloading it as when
downloading music, it’s hard
to find the original song as
sometimes it could be
pitched or speeded up.

11. Google Forms
• I used Google forms and
sheets as part of my
research. I made a
questionnaire using this and
then asked some people
using social networking
sites to fill the questionnaire
out for me. This helped me
significantly as one of the
questions were ‘what do
you look for in a good
music video?’ which a lot of
people answered ‘narrative’.
I took this into
consideration and ended up
including narrative into my
music video.

12. ConceptBoard
• I used Google to search for
ways I could make a mood
board and I ended up finding
Concept board. This was very
good for me as I was able to
put ideas together in one
place and write why I believe
it would be considered as
part of my theme and idea.
However, the only reason
why I didn’t like using this
was I wasn’t able to embed it,
and instead just had to insert
the link onto my blog.

13. Vimeo
• Vimeo was used to upload
my work. I used Vimeo as I
thought using YouTube
would mean I haven’t used
different media sites. I
organized my work and
uploaded all my feedback
onto Vimeo after I had
recorded myself. I also
done this as I thought
YouTube may be too
public for me to upload
myself.

14. Final Cut Pro
• Final Cut Pro was the most important media software I had used as I used it to edit my music
video and also other things. Final Cut Pro allowed me to do many things whilst editing my
music video such as fading, cutting clips and also adding effects. This software is very
organized as I was able to make bins and sort out all my clips which made it easy for me to edit.
I also used Final Cut Pro to edit some clips of myself which I wanted to make into a video. For
example I used it in my evaluation when I recorded myself for a question and wanted to add
clips. Final Cut was also handy for editing test shots as it also gave me more practice on how I
could edit and how I can experiment with many things and not effect my actual media product.

15. InDesign
• InDesign was used to design my digipak. Using InDesign helped me
know where to put what images. This was because when using
InDesign, I was able to download my own template for my digipak
and after downloading it, it showed me where I should put what.

16. Photoshop
• Photoshop was used to edit images that were used in my digipak. This was
useful as I was able to make it look professional. Also I used Photoshop to
design my magazine advert which was easy as I knew how to use Photoshop
before, however I also learnt new things by experimenting with tools I had
never used before.

17. QuickTime
• I used QuickTime to screen record one of my edits and
watch back my videos. The screen record option was
handy as I thought I wanted to show my blog viewers
how I edited my test shots and show my creativity
skills.