1. EVALUATION QUESTION 3:
‘HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES IN THE
CONSTRUCTION, PLANNING AND
EVALUATION STAGES’?
By Can Arslan

2. Photoshop
• Photoshop was used for the construction of my ancillary
products, I used photoshop cs6 which is the latest version
as it had many new features which were easy to use while
creating my ancillary products.
In this screenshot, I am
playing with the curves,
which effect the colour
balance of the picture.
Doing this helped me
get a vintage effect on
my image, hand made
instead of using a filter.

3. Audacity
• I downloaded and installed audacity to put my interview mp3s into one clip so
that I could upload it easier, and that it would just flow from one feedback
interview to another. I done this by adding the clips and positioning them after
each other, then exporting it into an MP3 and uploading it to soundcloud.

4. iMovie
• I used iMovie to create my day trip video, I used iMovie because of its
simplicity. I used iMovie by adding a string of clips in the order I liked onto the
timeline, then trimming the video down. Added a few transitions and title
screens with a soundtrack playing behind it: ‘Ben Howard – Keep Your Head
Up’, to make the documentary seem more genuine I edited the sound with an
effect on iMovie to make it seem like the music is being played in a small
sized room.

5. Final Cut Pro
• Final cut pro was the main video editing tool I used to edit
my music video. I used final cut pro to edit clips. For
example I trimmed them down, added filters and played
with its colour and sound balance.

6. Final Cut pro 2
• The screenshot below demonstrates two clips being reversed and then put in normal
order and multiplied a few times in order to get a stop/start effect, but when this is used
effectively with good content, which in our case was the smashing of glass. It ensured
that the target audience was still engaged as it was repeated a few times at fast paced,
as a result of the repetition instead of one single break, the audience could also see the
glass pieces.
• The grey clips show the transition we used in order to get into these clips, transitions
are effective because it makes the sequence look much smoother rather than skip from
clip to clip with no real indication to indicate the next clip is something different.

7. Final cut pro 3
• Colour correction after blacking out the rest of the clip and only allowing a certain
shade of red/purple
• Doing this effect via video filters helps us sync the lyric 'never should of listened to the
serpent' with the clip of the serpent, and the video filter ensures the target audience
concentrates on this.

8. Final cut pro 4
•
The clips below and and above represent a transition which we was really proud of,
the clip below has a distorted filter to it, and as its towards the end of the base track
and we wanted the kill the base track with a bang, we used the filter 'overdrive' on the
clip below to give the clip a shake, as if the camera was being shoved away when
being pushed away. The dark devilish red also helps portray a sense of ending

9. Blogger
• I used blogger to help organise my research and planning
stages so that I could refer back to it to help me with my
production. I used also used it in my production process
to help stay on top of my work. I used blogger by creating
new posts and adding many different types of content
instead of just text, for example. Vimeo videos and
soundcloud, or screenshots.

10. Blogger 2
Use of vimeo, soundcloud and
text
Using vimeo and soundcloud meant that I
could upload high quality video and audio
and embed it almost anywhere on the
internet hassle-free!

11. Blogger 3
We ensured each of our blog posts had
labels to help keep everything organized.
While using blogger, I made sure that all
my blog posts began with what its about,
for example all research blogs began with
‘RESEARCH: ------’ and production with
‘PRODUCTION ------’ doing this helped
me locate blog posts much easier, saving
time.

12. Twitter
• I used twitter to keep the teachers updated with our
filming days so that they as well as us had a record of
where we were filming and when, incase we needed to
refer back to it.

13. Gifs
• I used gifs to showcase several pictures simultaneously if
I was trying to put a point across, or if I wanted people to
see something I done in contrast/comparison with
something else

14. The Internet!
• YouTube was used to watch other music videos in the
research and planning stage as a source of inspiration (to
get ideas from)

15. The Internet 2
• I also used the internet to research dubstep related
articles and websites, to see typical conventions that I
could utilize.

16. Vimeo
• I decided to upload my videos to Vimeo because Vimeo
does not lose video quality when you upload a video to it,
the video player itself too looks very professional.

17. Camera/SD Cards
• The Camera was used throughout or production process
to capture as many shots as we could for our music video,
all the shots were stored onto an SD Card, these cards
were great as they could hold large files but also were
very portable.

18. Photo Booth
• I used photobooth to help record myself speaking, it was
the easiest way, as uploading was only a click away.

19. MPEG STREAMCLIP
• Mpeg streamclip was used predominantly in the blogging
stages to compress vlogs that we uploaded onto our blog,
Compression of the raw files was essential to bring the file
size down and make uploading quicker and easier.