The document lists various new media technologies used during the construction, research, planning, and evaluation stages of a project. These include: - Camcorder, tripod, Nikon camera, and YouTube for filming and researching music videos. - Paint, scanner, Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint for planning, sketching, typing notes, and presenting evaluations. - Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop for editing video clips and images. - Blog for tracking progress and sharing work. The technologies helped with filming, research, planning, editing, sharing work, and reducing mistakes.

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

2. List of Technology used Camcorder, tripod, blog, Nikon camera, YouTube, Microsoft word, PowerPoint, adobe premiere pro CS4 (editing software), adobe Photoshop CS4, any video convertor, mobile phone, Paint, scanner.

3. Internet research and planning The use of The Internet. YouTube especially aided me during my research on existing music videos task, helping me to get an idea of contemporary RnB music videos, comparing the different elements within the videos of the same genre. Watching previous A2 students media products to get a head start was also helpful, able me to analyse the pros and cons when making a music video.

4. Paint During the planning stage for my ancillary tasks, I used Paint to produce some of my initial sketches as it’s easy to use and less time consuming.

5. Scanner Luckily my printer has a built-in scanner so I was able to scan up sketches onto the computer then transfer onto the blog, It also keeps extra copies, in case original copy is lost .

6. Camera, Camcorder, Tripod The camcorder and tripod played a substantial role during my production process, we used Cannon handycam to film our clips. The camcorder was straightforward to use with many useful functions. It has the playback feature, which allowed me to check the quality Tripod – steady shots of the scenes, made sure they fit in the mise en scene, avoided ‘cutting heads off’ within the frames. Nikon Camera has high mega pixel which increases photo quality, high resolution images.

7. Any video convertor The software any video convertor came handy when converting our raw video clips to wmv format, was quick and easy to use.

8. Blog Research and Planning Microsoft Office: Word and PowerPoint I used PowerPoint in order to present my evaluation Word allowed me to type up my ideas, also the spell check helped to me reduce spelling mistakes.

9. Editing, Adobe Photoshop For my ancillary task, I used Photoshop to edit my magazine cover and digipak. It has many editing functions, crop, resizing Black and white effect, Additional benefit is that contains many layers, meaning the texts, image, logo etc can be edited separately.

10. Macromedia Firework A simple photo editing software allowed me to panel the photo shopped images into the digipak template.

11. Blog Upload blogs to keep track of the work i have completed so I know what stage I am at and what I need to do next. The blog allowed me to display my ideas, images, sketches with notes to explain my work in a more detailed answer. More efficient than paper work, as it prevent any work being lost throughout. Ease to improve piece of work, can going back and update information.

12. Production, Premiere Pro Premiere Pro is known for being the industry standard editing software, it’s a more complex, up to date program. By using premiere pro instead of common movie editing software e.g. movie maker, it increases precision in cutting, there are more effects including audio effects, transitions, video effects and transitions in order to twit bits of my music video. For example I used ‘crossfade’ for the start of the video.