Evaluation 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, panning and evaluation stages?

Blogger - We use this to show the progression of our work. It also helps up keep up to date with what we were doing both individually and as a group. Blogger is also the theory side of our work as this is where we note everything we do with our construction and research and our planning and evaluation stages. 


Camera and Tripod - These were the same as what we used last year, therefore we were able to use them correctly to do the vital part of filming our music video in various locations of our choice. We took any different shots in able to find the 'perfect' on. This included camera angles and shot types. 


Youtube - We mainly used youtube for our research stages, where it gave us a good insight of what genre of the video we wanted to do and also the genre of music we wanted. However we also used youtube to upload our audience interviews, animatics and our digipack analysis. 


Itunes - This was used so that we could import our music onto our video.


Final Cut Express - This was a vital technology of our project this year as final cut express was the programme in which we actually made our music video on. This is where we did all of the editing such as choosing and cutting shots, and adding different effects to shots. 


Surveymonkey.com - This was used to create the survey which we which gave us different responses to what our audience are interested in with a music video. All of the questions used were to do with the genre which we had chosen. The responses gave us a clear idea of which video genre was most popular with our chosen audience. 


Timeglider - We used this to create a timeline of 'the history of music video's' 


Facebook - This helped us to communicate with each other out of school hours. We posted many pictures on here so that we could work on our magazine advert and digipack. We also posted our survey on here to get responses from our friends and family. 


Photoshop - This was used to create our magazine advert and digipack. To begin with we found it quite confusing to use, however we managed to grasp it quickly. This programme gave use great effects which we planned to use originally. 




Mac- The mac was the main main piece of technology that enabled us to create our music video as it held near enough all of the other technologies on it such as final cut express, the programme we used to make it.


Imovie - This is where we created our audience feedback videos. It was different to the one we used last year, however we got to grips with it quickly and from our final videos on Imovie, we uploaded them to YouTube. 


Powerpoint - We used this right at the beginning of our task as this is where we created a powerpoint with our ideas of what we were going to create, and what music we chose. We presented these to the class in order to receive some feedback on what they thought would work and what they thought wouldn't.


Dafont.com - This was used to create the font for our title of both the band and the album title. We found it a really good website as their were many different fonts you could chose from on there. 


Safari - We used this to collect images and ideas for our blog and our initial product itself.