Evaluation Planning Question 4

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

There was a wide variety of different technologies i used during the construction of both my music vieo and ancillary products.

For the music video research we the main piece of technology we used, for almost everything else as well, was a computer. I looked at many different music videos on Youtube to get different ideas for shots and camera angles and any we thought were good we would take a note of and try and emulate this in our own way in our video.
For our pitch we used animoto which enabled us to put in short texts and pictures to sum up our ideas for different things in the video including costume and locationing to give the audience basic ideas of what our video will include.
We also set up a twitter account for our artists which we tweeted on how the artists were doing in the production of the video and did this a few times every week so that pur followers could keep up to date with the artists.
For the filming of our video we used a dvd camcorder which put the video straight onto a disknand so it was easy to transfer onto a computer when we wanted to edit as there was no cables required and so it was a quick and easy process.
Tne way in which each of these technologies all fit together is that the websites used were on the computer and on the internet which all are sub technologies of the computer And the cameras disc was transferred onto the computer.

For the digipack i used a Canon 450d SLR camera for all of my photos which i was easily able to transfer to a computer as it had an SD card in it which i was able to put into my laptop and copy over the pictures.
With the pictures on my laptop, to be able to use them to edit at school i emailed them from my home email to my school email which was a simple process and took little time to do.
The main piece of technology i used was photoshop for my poster and digipack in which i was able to edit and enhance the photos and fit them onto a digipack template which i downloaded from a link from a teachers blog.
Another website i used was dafont.com which is where i got the font for my album name, artist name and tracklist to show continuity throughout the digipack and poster, the font was called 'Sketchy' and i used a word document to save it into when i needed it again for the poster.
After i had finished my digipack and poster i used a printer to print them off which was located in the library of the school.
For all of the research, production and evaluation stages i used blogger tonpost about how i was getting on and any ideas we had we wold post on blogger.