1. How did you use media technologies
in the construction and research,
planning and evaluation stages?
Jack Young & Josh Grazier

2. • Throughout our whole coursework we used
many different forms of media technologies
these ranged from the internet, Apple Mac
software and Photoshop. We thought that
using a wide range of media products will
boost our final products and allow to get the
best possible outcome.

3. Research And Planning.
• The main website that we used was YouTube this was for many
reasons we gained inspiration from other music videos, in this case
‘All I Want’ and ‘Make It Stop’ were very important we took ideas
from these music videos and added them to our own creating our
own individual product, we also gained a huge outside look on
other music videos that suited our genre and that attracted the
same audience, the internet was a very good way of gathering
information.
• Another use of media technology was using a camera we personally
went around asking people there thoughts on a music video that
was in our genre and what they expected to see within it. We then
used Final Cut and edited all the clips together making a short
video, this gave us many ideas of what the audience would expect
to see and gave us a wide aspect of what should be involved in our
music video and ancillary texts.

4. Construction
• When constructing our music video and ancillary texts we used our
research and took into account all the ideas given, once our video had
been recorded we began to edit it in Final Cut on the Mac. This software is
very good because it allowed us to shorten clips, slow them down etc.
making our music video reach its maximum potential, for the music we
downloaded the track from YouTube and were granted permission by the
bands music company meaning copyright was no a problem we then used
iTunes and copied it straight across into Final Cut allowing us to edit it how
we please. When creating our video the most important feature of Final
Cut was the clip speed feature this was because we had to have many of
our clips in slow motion to add effect and this was acceptable by using
Final Cut instead of iMovie for example.
• When creating our ancillary texts we used Photoshop to edit all of our
ancillary texts this was because it gave them the best effect possible and
made them look life like Photoshop allowed us to add images to a blank
canvas and work around it and letting us create a cd case as we want.

5. Evaluation
• Once again we used Final Cut for our evaluation
however in this case we used a voice over which was
recorded on a standard recording microphone, we then
converted it to iTunes before dragging it to Final Cut by
using Final Cut we could add many images to the video
to show the audience Cleary was being spoke of and
gave the audience a better understanding to what is
going on.
• We also used Prezi on the internet which allowed us to
make a PowerPoint of texts and images the user would
be automatically taken to the next text or image
making it a lot easier to use and meaning they wont
get confused when using it.