The student used various media technologies during the research, planning, and construction stages of their media project. During research, they used Google, YouTube, and a blog to research conventions of rock music videos and CD covers. During planning, they communicated with their partner using MSN Messenger and email to organize work. They used a graphics tablet to practice drawings. During construction, they used Photoshop, SAI, and Flash to draw, animate, and edit images and video clips to create their final music video and ancillary tasks like a CD cover.

1. Evaluation Question 4 How did you use media technologies in the Research, Construction and planning stage

2. Research Stage During the research phase at the beginning of the course and at later points, I have used media technologies in order to collect information about other ‘rock’ genre media products e.g. cd covers and music videos.

4. Media Technologies used in Research

13. Planning Stage As my media project is an animated music video the planning stage was different to those that used a camera.

14. Media Technologies used in Planning

19. Construction The making of my media ancillary tasks and music video

21. Media Technologies used in Construction

32. Tools This is the time line, the numbers refer to the number of frames As I imported the image from a Photoshop document I was able to animate each layer separately Pixels refer to the size of the image This is the colour select tool that allows you to mix and create different shades of colours This folder contains the different layers data Tween’s refer to the motion of a layer This is the image being animated

33. This is the select tool, I used it to select and highlight different layers This is the Sub selection tool, this is useful to select layers This is the free transform tool This is the Sub selection tool, this is useful to select layers This is the pen tool This is the Text tool, I used this to add text to my magazine advert and CD cover This is the line tool, It was useful in creating borders for my digipak This is the Shape tool, this is useful to create different shapes like rectangle and circle tool This is the pencil tool This is the brush tool, this is useful to help draw and colour images This is the ink bottle tool, I did not use this tool This is the fill/bucket tool, this is useful in colouring in, and gives a good quality to the image This is the colour select tool, this is useful to select colours that I was using previously to edit This is the eraser/rubber tool, this is used to remove pixels/colour that I didn’t want to use This is the Hand tool, this is useful when zoomed in to move the canvas and move to different areas This is the magnifying glass/zoom tool, this is used to zoom in and out of the canvas This is the stroke colour tool this was used in the planning or creation of my digipaks to select different tools

38. I clicked and dragging the effect on to the area I wanted the effect

39. Transition effect

40. This is the play selection tool This is the transition

41. During the early stages of the transition When the effect fully takes effect It dips completely to black, this is it a few frames before This is next animation, I set the dip to black so that it continues slightly into the next clip.