The document discusses the use of new media technologies in the production of a music video project. Photoshop and Final Cut Pro were the two most important programs used to create the magazine advert, digipak, and edit together the music video footage. Final Cut Pro was particularly challenging as the student had no prior experience with the software. Other hardware used included a Canon camera, tripod, and Apple Mac computer, which took time to learn. Facebook and YouTube were utilized to gather feedback and for research. All of the media technologies played a vital role in the project's success by providing high quality options and effects.

1. THE EVALUATION..
4. How did you use new media technologies
in the construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages
Danny Laws
A2 Media Studies

2. INTRODUCTION
 During the course of this project, we’ve had some
enjoyable and some really stressful moments
when using different technologies to make our
music video, some technologies software we
have come across before and used so that’s
wasn’t so bad but still stressful as maybe we
haven't used it in a while etc.
 However there were some software’s that we
never experience before which made life during
this project very stressful but in a whole it was a
good experience.

3. Programs
 During the course of this project, We have used many different
programs, however the two main and most important programs we used was
Photoshop and Final Cut Pro x without these two software's we wouldn’t of been
able to do this project at all.
 Photoshop: Photoshop was key and really important to our coursework as it
helped us make our magazine advert and our digipak, even we didn’t use
Photoshop our magazine and digipak wouldn’t be a nearly as good. Using
Photoshop wasn’t as hard because we have experience using this software
before.
 Final Cut Pro x: This is the most important software we used because this is
where we put all our footage together to make our music video, this helped us to
put the footage and the music together, cut and edit the clips that we took. This
was a very stressful software to use as we never used this before the start of
the project so this was completely new to use which made things harder.

4. Hardware Used
 Cannon Powershot SX40 HS- This camera at first was hard to use, as
it didn’t first record properly however we got used to it and it become
vital to our work, I believe this camera helped us to gain great shots for
our music video.
 Tripod- This helped us to keep the camera completely still so we could
get perfected shots and angels.
 Apple Mac- This hardware was very new to me because before I never
experience using the apples mac, everything about it was different to a
normal computer so before we could even use the programs on the
mac, we had to get used to the mac itself.

5. Websites Used For Feedback
 The websites that we used to gain feedback was Facebook and
YouTube as these two are leading social network sites that we could
gain a lot of feedback from as there are many friends as well random
people on these sites, they were easy to upload footage and images on
as well used this before.
 Also we used these programs as part of our research and planning, as
well had to see people opinion on genres and types of music videos so
we carried out a questionnaire so the best way to do this we felt was to
put it on Facebook.

6. How did this all help us?
 All of the media technologies that I have mentioned has really played a
vital role in helping me and the group to constructed our research and
planning as well as different stages as without them in my opinion this
project wouldn’t be successful at all, the reason for this being that the
software and the hardware are all high quality in their own way so by
using high quality technologies as well as personal skills this would
contribute to a high quality music video, digipak and magazine advert.
 I also felt this has made our personal skills better and made our ideas
and better as we had more options to pick from and better effects for our
video for an example, so by having more options and more ideas to
choose from we had a much better video than we maybe would have
had in ‘AS Media’ as we had better media technologies.