1. How did you use media
technologies in the construction
and research, planning and
evaluation stages?

2. Throughout the process of researching, planning, creating and evaluating
my media product I have used a large number of different programs
including the ones shown below.

3. Research
When researching music videos, music labels, digipaks and advertisements
e.c.t I relied heavily on the internet to access all the information and media. I
used Google to gain information and Youtube to access both real and
previous students music videos, these websites were instant and very helpful,
the research process would have been much harder and time consuming
without them. I also watched the tv music channels when wanting to watch
videos from a certain genre seeing as they all focus on different genres of
music to satisfy their audience.
When watching videos on Youtube, similar videos were displayed down the
right of the page so that I was able to compare videos very quickly, the huge
number of different videos helped to inspire me and give me more ideas.
During the research process I was able to use my phone and Ipad, this made
the online media much accessible when on the move or when there wasn’t a
computer available.

4. Planning
I used Photoshop when planning my
media product so that I could experiment
with different images particularly with my
moodboard where I was able to present
all my ideas in a visual format.
I used excel to create a filming schedule
which was very easy to read to keep me
organised and on track throughout the
filming process.
Throughout both the Research and planning stages I used blogger to post
and update my work as I went along. This website presented my research
and planning very clearly , showing me what I was missing and had yet to
complete , keeping me organised. I was able to post photographs and
videos and I think that this website is very good for showing your progress
and how you developed into your final product.

5. Construction
In the production of my music video and digipack I used my digital camera to
film ad take photographs, this was very helpful because its small and portable,
but also captures quite high quality footage.
These videos and photographs were then imported onto my laptop and then
onto Adobe Premier Pro where I could start editing all the videos straight away.
Abode Premier Pro is a very
advanced editing software that
allowed me to adjust each clip in
hundreds of different ways, which
improved the continuity throughout
the video because I was able to
adjust the brightness, shadows,
contrast, saturation and temperature.
I was then able to choose from a
huge variety of video transitions and
layer videos on top of each other,
because it’s a timeline based editing
software.

6. To create my digipak I used Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, this is a very
good editing software for editing photographs and I enjoyed this stage of
construction because I feel very comfortable using Photoshop.