The student used various media technologies throughout the research, planning, construction, and evaluation stages of their project. During research, they used YouTube to find inspiration and ideas from other music videos. They also used their chosen artist's website to find song names and lyrics. Photoshop was used to create a promotional advert and digipak, using techniques like layering. Final Cut Pro was used to edit the video, including deleting sound, lining up lip syncing shots, and color correcting. Other tools like Blogger documented their progress, and lighting was used for photography and video shots.

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

2. YouTube ofand technologies throughout the
Artist’s Websites
I have used a lot media
media process such as during my research and planning
and especially for the making of my video. I have used
youtube frequently to get references from other videos to
inspire me and pick up ideas from other music videos to
maybe use in my own.
I have also used my chosen artist’s ‘Jeffrey James’ website
to look up names of this other songs to incorporate them
into my digipak and to look up the lyrics of some of his
songs to help my star learn them when lip synching and to
also corporate them into my digipak as well.

3. Photoshop
I have used photoshop effectively to create my advert and digipak. I used several
techniques such as layering and layer masking. I have learnt how to add and
download fonts to use in photoshop and how to resize photos effectively and to
edit the effects on the images I used to adjust the exposure and contrast to make
certain elements stand out.
When using photoshop to create my digipak I wanted to make it look as
conventional as possible. This meant including the lyrics of some of our chosen
artist’s songs for audience to follow along to. Although I really like this idea and
think that it works effectively, it was very hard to choose a certain colour of font
that stood out against the background. Therefore some of the font used in my
digipak doesn’t stand out as well as I would have liked.

4. Final my videoPro learnt how to
Cut and have
I used final cut pro to create
delete the sound from my video so that you can hear my chosen
song. I also had to make sure I lined up the lip synching shots so
that it fitted in with the song and was in line with each other. I
also had to make sure that for my rhythmic editing that the shots
were the right length and fitted together properly. I also colour
corrected each shot so that things stood out such as the studio
shots I made the background a lot whiter so that my star stood
out more against the white background. I also tried changing all
the shots of me in my video to black and white however I didn’t
think it worked very well so I had to change it back but this
helped me learn and develop my knowledge of how to use final
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5. Other Uses Of Media
I have used ‘Blogger’ throughout to update my
progress and research onto my blog to help me keep
track of my process and how I have created my
outcomes and how successful they have been.
The lighting I have used has been presented when I
took the images of my star for the digipak front cover
and I used lighting during my video in the studio
shots.
I learnt how to add in an mp3 correctly and as I used
a DSLR camera to film my video I had to learn how to
use to conversion tools so that my files would work

6. Other Uses Of Media
I have used ‘Blogger’ throughout to update my
progress and research onto my blog to help me keep
track of my process and how I have created my
outcomes and how successful they have been.
The lighting I have used has been presented when I
took the images of my star for the digipak front cover
and I used lighting during my video in the studio
shots.
I learnt how to add in an mp3 correctly and as I used
a DSLR camera to film my video I had to learn how to
use to conversion tools so that my files would work