The document discusses the various media technologies used during the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages of a project. It describes using online resources like Google Images, YouTube, band websites, and SurveyMonkey to conduct research. WordPress and SlideShare were used to blog progress and upload materials. iMovie was the primary software used to edit video materials, including the music video. Photoshop was utilized to edit photos for the digipak and advert. Equipment included a video camera, tripod, iMac, MacBook and iPhone.

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

2. Internet
For my genre research, band research and mood boards I used Google
images and other search engines to find information and pictures. I also
used bands websites and social media pages to find further information.
When deconstructing music videos I used youtube.com as my main
source as here I could watch all the videos I needed whether they were
the ones I was deconstructing or intertextual references within these
videos
For my digipak deconstructions I looked on second hand shopping
websites such as Ebay which made it easy for me to obtain hard copies
of the digipaks I wanted inexpensively.

3. I used Google images for my advert deconstructions as there were
many adverts of the indie rock genre accessible to me on here.
When conducting research into my target audience I used
SurveyMonkey.com to create an online survey which I was able to
send out to a large volume of people using both email and new
media such as Facebook, Twitter and other social networks.
For blogging my progress and ideas I used the blog site
wordpress.com which allowed me to create posts in separate
categories and embed different types of media into my posts such
as slideshows, images and videos.
I used slideshare.com, and again youtube.com for uploading
slideshows and videos to the internet.

4. Slideshare
Wordpress
Youtube
SurveyMonkey
Some screen shots from the websites I used during my research, planning, construction and evaluation stages…

5. iMovie
We used iMovie on an iMac in our construction stage when editing
our final product.
iMovie allowed us to import all of our footage into an event and
then cut the clips we wanted into a project.
We then edited the clips on beat with the music, changed the
lighting and saturation and layered the clips to create the double
vision effect.
I also used iMovie to edit my deconstruction videos in my research
and for all other videos I made during my portfolio.

6. Using iMovie to add the double vision effect to our final video
Screenshotstoshowhowwe
removedcolourandaudio
We used the Precision Editor to get our on beat editing perfectly in time with the
music, as this tool allows clips to be edited in more precisely in much more detail.
This screenshot shows the
tool we used to change the
speed and reverse our clips
which added much more
interest to our final product.
iMovie

7. Photoshop
We used Adobe Photoshop for editing photographs that
we used on our digipak and advert which is a great
software and luckily myself and my partner both had
previous experience in using it so we were able to edit
the manipulate images to a good quality.
We also used Photoshop for completing the final
ancillary tasks by using layers to add logos, images and
text.

8. This shows how I used Adobe
Photoshop to edit my music video
advert from my original image to my
final product.

9. Equipment
For filming our music video we used a handheld Sony video camera with
an SD card and a tripod to keep the camera stable.
For the still photographs in our ancillary tasks we used a phone with a
high megapixel camera to achieve excellent quality and professional
shots.
In my research, planning and evaluation stages I used a Macbook for
making, editing and uploading videos and my phone for taking photos of
evidence.
For editing the music video and ancillary tasks we used an iMac and a
Macbook.

10. Tripod iMac with iMovie software iPhone 5
…For editing our final piece…For keeping the shots stable
…For taking photos for
ancillary tasks
with 8 megapixel camera
HandheldSonyvideo
camerausedfor
filmingourmusic
video
Photos of
Equipment