How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning

For me this whole project would have been at all stages if I was not able to use various different media technolgies to make my work come out as good as possible. I used media technologies throughout my Research, Planning, Construction and Evaluation.

I am firstly going to comment on how I used media technologies during my Reasearch. Some programmes/computing elements that were a big help during my Reaserch was:

•  Blogger
• Screen Grabs
• YouTube
• Google Docs

These things all played a big part in my research in various different ways. For one blogger is the place that I used to document the things that I found out during my research E.G Conventions of my genre. I used screen grabs to take examples of different things like pictures or certain parts of a music video. Youtube was used so that i can find different examples of music video's and google doc helped with my audience reseach.

Whilst Planning my music video I also had to use a variety of media technologies and they consisted of things like:

• Animatic(Imovie)
• Still Camera's
• Draft of CD cover (Photoshop)

The animatic that we made was made in IMovie, and it job was basically to help usvisualise what our music video was going to look like. It done this through the music playing in the back ground and me putting pictures over on the screen for a certain amount of seconds and cutting to another picture like in a music video(the pictures representing shot in the music video). The still camera was used to help us to get to grips with photoshop and upload photo and see what looked good on a CD cover E.G The contrast of the picture, Fonts ECT.

The construction of the music video and ancilliary tasks used the more complicated part of media technology we used things such as:

• Da Font
• Photoshop
• Tripod
• Figrig
• Final Cut
• Cameras Moving image
• Brusheez

We used Da font because it has thousands of different fonts on the website that you can download and we used it so that we could find the perfect font to put on our Ancillary tasks, to make sure they match and add to the dark effect we were trying to create. Photoshop was used to add effects to the pictures that we took again to add to the dark grousome effect that we were trying to create. Here is what the album cover and poster:

The tripod and figrig were both used to ensure that the camera had either a still image or a smooth moving image. I used Final Cut in order to edit the the footage that we got from various different locations, it also allowed us to add effects on the footage that I got and create a quality music video. Brusheez is basically a website I used to get some of the background effects on some of my ancilliary tasks I used it to make the spines on the CD Cover and on some of the picture.