The document discusses the various media technologies used by the author at different stages of creating a music video project. In the planning stage, the author used Blogger to document work and share views, and tools like Canva, Instagram, SlideShare and Prezi to create posters and presentations. For construction, an iPhone 8 Plus was used to film high quality footage and Final Cut Pro to edit. In the evaluation, iMessage, Emaze and Visme were utilized to present responses to evaluation questions in engaging formats.

1. Evaluation
Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation stages?
By Mona Khalajabadi

2. Research & Planning – Blogger
To present all my work I used blogger. This website proved to be
extremely useful throughout the course of this project for music videos
because of the blogging tools available for me. I personally found the
format of blogger very easy to use and the way you can post things very
easily whilst also creating different tabs and labels. Furthermore, I feel
that this software's way of embedding and being able to post multiple
different screenshots and text etc. very versatile in its use.
The best part about using blogger was that I could express my own
personal views and create my own diaries and post them on my blog
without having to worry about other opinions, I enjoyed that I could have
my own opinion on different music videos and be able to openly post that
on my blog.

3. Research & Planning – Different online tools
Throughout the course of creating my music
video I used different websites and online tools
to present my work. Some of the tools I used
where fantastic in terms of displaying my
research and planning tasks. Using these tools I
have inserted below, have helped make my
work look appealing and interesting for people
to want to read.

4. Research & Planning – CANVA
Personally, my favourite software that I used would definitely
be Canva. This is because I could create a poster with
whatever background/text/font/colours I wanted and display
It how I like, it also created multiple pages after you’ve
finished the first page.
An example of when I used Canva and I thought it worked
fantastically was when I created a poster for Stormzy.

5. Research & Planning - INSTAGRAM
I used Instagram for my filming diary, so every
time we would film I would post a few photos on
this Instagram page that I created specially for
media and explain what we done and had
achieved throughout the course of the day. I felt
that creating this page made me feel a lot more
organised and it also helped me write some
things that didn’t go to plan so we were aware
not to do them again.

6. Research & Planning – SLIDESHARE
I personally think, slideshare is one of the easiest and
simplest presentation software's I have used throughout
the course of creating this music video. It helps me keep
my presentations look neat and tidy and it also can be
manipulated to look very interesting and eye catching
for example like adding a cool background. However, I
can argue and say that is not the most interesting
software to use as I have found a lot more software's like
Prezi for example, look a lot nicer.

7. Research & Planning - PREZI
PREZI, again is another presentation software that I used and I felt that
this software was one of the best in terms of how it looks. They have
such a huge variety of different backgrounds and themes to choose
from that each presentation looks so unique and different and I feel
that makes it more eye-catching than slideshare.

8. Research & Planning – Technology
My laptop was my main platform I used everyday to do my
media work on.
Personally, I feel that without my laptop I would not have
been able to create the work I have on my blog. It has given
me a huge variety of sources and has made me able to
browse through different online tools and software's.
Having my own laptop ensured that I could do as much work as I
possibly could in my spare time outside of my lessons. I could use
photoshop, final cut and all the other presentation softwares on it and
this made me feel confident in using all of these due to the fact I got
loads of practice done outside of lessons.

9. Construction – Filming To film our music video we used an
iPhone 8 Plus camera.
Previously I had used a Nikon DSLR
camera for other filming but then I
thought it would be a good idea to
change it and use an iPhone 8
camera as they are fantastic. I loved
it as the iPhone 8 camera has a wide-
angle lens roughly around 28mm,
while the portrait camera has a
telephoto lens roughly 56mm.
If we had to use an ordinary digital camera, the
music video would not have looked up to a high
quality and would have looked quite fuzzy. This
means that the music video wouldn’t be as
affective/successful. Most successful music videos
have a VERY high quality and they are also very
smooth to watch and there usually aren’t any
glitches with them. To make our music video as
successful as possible we had to make sure all our
panning and angles were lined up and didn’t look
wonky or shaky at all.

10. Construction – FINAL CUT
To edit our music video we used final cut pro. The reason why we chose to edit
on this instead of iMovie was mainly because we both had macbooks and this
was an easier software to use on our laptops. There are so many advanatges
using Final Cut pro, firstly being, that the software if quite intuitive and full of
features. We achieved all of our successful editing from the features that the
software included. Another benefit was the innovative magnetic timeline. This
new take on the old concept of the timeline makes it easier to compose our
music video because it automatically snaps the clips into place. It also adjusts
clips automatically as you move clips around on the timeline. This is such a huge
advantage because it saves a lot of time for us.

11. Construction – Photoshop
Personally, I feel that without photoshop, my ancillary
task would not have been anywhere near as effective.
The photographs I used for my digipak and poster were
edited a lot and that is the reason to my end result.
Below I will have my before and after images of using
photoshop with my digipak and poster.
Regardless of the fact that I struggled hugely using
photoshop, I did learn loads of shortcuts and I learnt
how to add PNG effects and how to manipulate
photos to make them look a lot nicer.

12. Evaluation : imessage
For my evaluation questions I used a variety of different
ways to present them so I can remain keeping my blog look
appealing and eye-catching enough to read them.
Imessage: I used imessage quite a lot to interview people
and to be interviewed myself as well. For example on
Question 2 I used imessage so my friend could interview
me by asking multiple questions that related to the main
question. I feel that imessage is such a common source that
is used to communicate between people nowadays that is
has become so easy to use and it is also something a lot of
people in my age range use for entertainment.

13. Evaluation: Emaze
• I used emaze for my question 1 as I thought it looks appealing and it is
very straight forward to use. As I had to include quite a lot of
information about my music video, digipak and poster I thought using
this presentation software would be extremely useful as it is colorful,
you can adjust the fonts and add as many pictures as you like.

14. Evaluation: VISME
Personally, this was my least favourite software to use as it doesn’t look as
appealing as the others. I found it quite difficult arranging pictures on it
and it took quite a lot of time to just be able to add font. Which I then later
realised that the text comes up in the presentation word by word which
takes a lot of time for a whole paragraph to come onto the screen. I then
decided to just take a screenshot of the text and put the text on the screen
as a photograph, this worked out successfully!

15. Conclusion
Throughout this course of creating my music
video I have learned and picked up a lot of
techniques and I have used a range of
technologies which have helped make and
improve my work to look extremely
professional and also make It appealing to
read. Making all of my presentations and
using multiple different tools helped reach a
wider audience and helped expand my ideas
and my thoughts on everything.