Beth Berrett used various new media technologies throughout the construction, research, planning, and evaluation stages of her music video project. These included Blogger to maintain a blog documenting the process, YouTube for researching other videos, finding tutorials, and uploading her own video. She used Unsigned to select the song, SurveyMonkey to gather audience feedback, and the National Center for Education Statistics website to create charts and graphs. OneTrueMedia was used to create image montages, and SlideShare to upload PowerPoint presentations. Wordle helped display survey results creatively. Various other sites provided resources for research, fonts, and an innovative presentation tool.

1. Evaluation Question 4:
How did you use new media
technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation
stages?
By Beth Berrett

2. www.blogger.co
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• We have used Blogger all year to keep an
updated log of our progress throughout
the process of creating our music video.
This featured the research and planning,
filming and editing, theory, and
evaluation, amongst other things. As we
used this last year, I had a general idea of
how to use it, however developed my
skills by learning how to create labels for
each post to be grouped under. My blog
has generally been updated at least 4
times a week continuously throughout the
process, and the address is
www.bethberrettrca2.blogspot.com

3. www.youtube.com
• Youtube has been used
continuously throughout the
coursework process in a variety of
ways. It is mainly used for research,
to look at other videos, both
professional and past students
work, which from here we are able
to embed onto our blogs. I have
also used it to look at tutorials for
various pieces of software that I
have not used before in a particular
way, such as Photoshop. Youtube is
also where we uploaded our own
videos for anyone to watch and
comment on, on my channel
‘Bethrett’.

4. www.unsigned.com
• This is the website we had to use to
pick our music from. It is here where
we found ‘Oh Me Oh My’ by The
99s, amongst a wide variety of
hundreds of songs, and the initial
information about the band which
added to our research and planning.

5. www.surveymonkey.com
• On survey monkey, we were able to create a survey which we could link to Facebook to
gather target audience research and find out who our target audience was and what they like
to see in a music video. After the production of the music video, we were able to retrieve
audience feedback by the same method. This provided us with all the information we
required, in a way which was easy to collect, analyse and interpret.

6. www.nces.ed.gov
• This was a really useful website which I
discovered by chance last year and continued
to use this year. It allowed me to create charts
and graphs to display the survey results in an
alternative way to just listing them. It is quick,
free and easy to use, as well as an easy to read
information once the graphs are made.

7. www.onetruemedia.com
• One true media allows us to display a series of
pictures as a montage. I used it to create a
montage of The 99s band pictures from their
website, one of filming the band scenes, and
one of us filming in London amongst other
things, again as an alternative way of
displaying pictures.

8. www.slideshare.com
• Slideshare allowed us to put onto our
blogs slideshows created offline on
PowerPoint, such as this one. Along
with this, I have created and uploaded
to Slideshare PowerPoint's on our
digipak and magazine adverts, as well
as analysing real examples.

9. www.wordle.net
• Wordle provided us with a method by which we
could display information in a alternative,
interesting way. By typing in words from a set of
results, from a survey or a focus group, it
processed the text and displayed the most
popular words larger, and those less common
responses as smaller, so more popular
responses can be recognised easily. Examples
can be seen below.

10. www.the99smusic.com
• This is website belonging to the band who’s unsigned song we used for our music video. We used
their website to research their background, and discover the kind of band they are. We tried to
mirror this in our digipak and magazine advert, and also featured on the digipak other actual songs
by the band, found on the website.

11. www.dafont.com
• This was a new website discovered recently, which allowed us to download various fonts
which we were able to use on the digipak and magazine advert. By searching ‘graffiti’ and
‘spray-paint’ we were able to find freely downloadable fonts which we could import to
Photoshop, where we created our ancillary texts.

12. Prezi
• Prezi is something which has only just
been introduced to us, as a brand new
way of displaying information in a
creative, organised and original way. The
process of using Prezi takes a while to get
used to, but once managed, it becomes
easier to use, as a way of demonstrating
pictures, videos and text, in a illustrative
method. This is then embedded into the
blog.