How have you used new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

We used many media technologies in construction, research, planning and evaluating, for example


Blogger- we used the website www.blogger.com to upload all our work and research throughout dong our coursework.

YouTube- we used YouTube to look at different videos and analysis them also we used YouTube to upload our music video so we could get feedback from viewers.

Google- we used google to research information on topics such as
-theories
-institutions
-digipacks
-advertisements

Wordle- I used wordle to place lots of words which are to do with my music video and research and placed them at the top of my blog so it is made more interesting to look at.


Email- we used email to send links to people for feedback on our on digipacks, tour poster and video, we also used it to email each other work we was working on.


Clothes websites- we used clothes websites such as topshop and river island to look for types of outfits which we want our actors to wear in the music videos to stick with the genre and attract the right type of audience.


Font websites- we used font websites such as 'da font' and 'urban fonts'. We used these to find the right type of font to put on our digipack and tourposter, we looked through a few until we found what one fitted the best was from 'urban fonts' and was called 'ALPACA'

Facebook- we used the social network website Facebook, to get our video seen and to get feedback from our target audience.

SDR-S26- the SDR-S26 is the camera we used to film most of the clips for our video, we also used equipment such as tripods to help us get the right shots and angles.


HD SD card- we used a HD SD card to save the clips we filmed, by saving them to HD SD card instead of just the camera it was easier to transfer them into the laptops to edit them as all we had to do was insert the card into the laptop.


Windows movie maker- we used windows movie maker to do our animatics which is images of our storyboard to the music, this would help uswith the order and know how our video is going to look like, we came across a few problems whilst doing this such as, getting all the timings right so it fits in wit the music also trying to save it so we can putti on our blogs wouldn't work.


Digital cameras- we also used a different digital camera to film some of our other clips, as the SDR S26 camera wasn't avaliable but we used the same SD card so all our clips were together.


Memory stick- we used a memory stick to keep all of our work and research together so if one person needed to upload it we'd all be able to access it easily.


iPods- we used IPods when we first started planning, we used it to listen to the song and sorted out timings for example how long each shot would be.


Photoshop- we played around with photoshop, to edit images for our digipack and poster, here are some examples of what we come up with....


In the end we choose to just turn the images into grey scale because it got the simple look we wanted and turned the front and back cover and poster image in, a black and white but changed the brightness to make it dark.