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

2. Range of Technology I used to
Create my series of Music Products
• Youtube: The site that hosts my videos, very useful for
finding videos of other bands work.
• Vimeo: Useless website in my opinion, but was helpful in
finding videos done by other students.
• www.beastieboys.com: The band website, I found the
record label from this site.
• Fireworks 2004: If I knew how to work Photoshop I would
have used it, but instead I used Fireworks. It still proved
useful, but I wish I had Photoshop experience.
• iMovie: To me, the simplest and most effective way of
creating a music video.

3. Process of Creation from iMovie
Due to my only basic training with a Mac, did not know
where or if the Mac has a print screen button therefore I
had to use my camera to take the photo’s
Applying an effect to the
video, the long winded
way.
Applying a slow
motion effect to the
video.
Altering the length of specific
segments in the video.

4. Process of Creation from Fireworks
Inserting boxes where tour
Erasing areas of my picture for draft five
information would be placed later on.
of the poster finally placing a new
picture in the products. Testing various fonts to go with my
products. Learnt that finding a good font is
very difficult and tricky.
Trying out an example
on the cd back using a
tattoo.

5. If I Were To Produce This Project Again…
The main problem I had with my music video was deciding on the
song, I had originally intended to use the song “Guitar Gangsters
and Cadillac Blood” by Volbeat since I believed that the song was
an appropriate choice due to its many different themes such as
villainy and segregation. I even in the summer of 2011 filmed the
footage for a potential video. However I had conducted little
research on music videos and the material I had collected would not
have slotted well into a music video. Hence I changed the song in
November and filmed again this time to the song “Sabotage,” by
The Beastie Boys and I think you will agree that I made the correct
choice in changing the song. I also if I conducted that project again
would change colour scheme I used and stop myself from using
green as much since this halted progression in my product. My
product only started progression when I changed the green to grey
and made the album look far more like a rock album.