To research music videos for a coursework project, the author used YouTube to view videos and took screenshots to analyze in PowerPoint, Word, or Popplet. These technologies provided simple and effective tools for presentations and analysis. The author also used SurveyMonkey to conduct audience research and gather information about target interests. Finally, an iPhone 5 and video editing app Splice were used to create an animatic that was uploaded to a blog.

1. TECHNOLOGY USED IN MY
TECHNOLOGIES
COURSEWORK As part of my research I had to research other music videos in the
genre that I chose. To do this, I used ‘YouTube’ to view the videos
and then print screened images from the video to analyse on either
USED IN ‘PowerPoint’, ‘Word’ or ‘Popplet’. I chose to use these for my
analysis of other videos because they were simple to use and were
good for presenting either mind maps or presentations which would
RESEARCH clearly state the key conventions needed for my music video.
AND
PLANNING
I also used ‘www.surveymonkey.com’ to
conduct audience research in order to find out
what my target audience was and what their
interests were in a music video. I used Survey
Monkey because it is an easy to use website to
create surveys and this also allowed for me to
post my surveys onto social networks such as
‘Facebook’ and ‘Twitter’.
When creating the Animatic for my music video
I used the technology on an ‘iPhone 5’ because
this would widen my range of technology used.
I took pictures on the iPhone of the images
needed and then used them in a video creating
app called ‘Splice’. This allowed me to create
the animatic, which I then transferred to the
computer and then onto the blog.