The document discusses the use of various media technologies in planning, constructing, and evaluating three projects. Planning utilized Blogger for documentation and YouTube for research. Construction used Final Cut Express for video editing and adding effects, and Photoshop for creating digital packaging. Evaluation employed Prezi for an interactive presentation and iMovie to record audio commentary for a music video evaluation. Overall, the technologies provided resources for planning, hands-on experience, and new ways to showcase work.

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

2. Technologies
While using my three products, I used many
technologies to make them. This ranges from
Google to Final Cut to Photoshop and more.

3. Planning
I used Blogger to record all of the planning I made. I
could lay out my work in a way that I wanted too,
and could also include videos from YouTube and
images which can help illustrate the planning.
Blogger was a good way to also write down all my
ideas and could be used on mobiles which was
helpful to me.
I used Youtube to help my research for my music
video as I found similar genres to my artist and tried
to find conventions in the videos that I could
include. I gained many ideas from watching videos
as it would help have a professional feel. There are
so many videos that are available which made the
search easy.
I used internet on the computer and used the
Google search engine. I used the internet to help
with research about the theorists to help with the
explanations of conventions of music videos. I also
used the internet to help find artists that were
similar to mine and find digipaks and adverts that
were similar as well. I also was able to gain pictures
from the internet to put on my blog.
I used a camera to record ‘Hit me baby one more
time’ which was a task we completed as a class
to get an idea about how many different shots
that were going to be used for a small task. We
filmed and edited the video and I realised how
many shots were in one small scene.
These technologies helped me with the planning
as I was enabled to gain knowledge for certain
aspects that I needed to create which helped
me. I also got experience of using the
equipment before which gives me more insight
of how to use it to save me time later on with
any problems that I could encounter.

4. Construction
Final Cut Express
Final cut is an editing programme which is designed for Mac’s by Apple, it enables you to edit clips
of a video and add effects to them. I used final cut express to make my music video, I used this
before for my film making in AS which gave me some experience and help with the task as I knew
the basics of the programme before I started. I used many of the effects as I got to spend a lot of
time testing them out, I used the effects that manipulated the colour of the shots to black and
white and effects the manipulate the look of the image for example using tiled image and
mirroring. I learnt how to also use slow and fast motion to add more interest to the video. I learnt
how to lip-sync on final cut express which was more straight forward then I thought it would have
been, I simply added in markers to the correct place where I chose to lip-sync and then moved the
sound/image to the same place. As a music video had many cut shots and the speed had to be
fast having AS as experience really helped me with being able to do this at a face pace.
Photoshop
Photoshop is a programme made by Adobe to help change the way images look, I used Photoshop
to create my Digipak and advert. We had a template with the correct look of the digipak and made
sure the dimensions of the document was the correct size. I have used Photoshop previously
which gave me an advantage to knowing the ways around the programme. I tried different ways to
style my digipack for example change the background and experimented with different ways. I
used a skill that I learnt of how to change the colour over the image which I then kept as a theme
for my digipak and added to the other documents.

5. Evaluation
Prezi
Prezi is a website which allows you to create a presentation by using different
themes. Prezi is an extremely straight forward and easy way to create, I used this for
my evaluation for AS which gave me some experience so I didn’t have to waste time
figuring out ways to use the programme. Prezi allowed me to create an interesting
way to show my evaluations rather than a boring document.
iMovie
iMovie is a programme made by Apple for Mac’s for editing clips and being able to
add effects. I used this in my evaluation for my directors commentary as I was able
to voice record over my music video that I made. This was very easy to use, all I had
to do was press record and stop and it automatically saved which was good incase
something went wrong.