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

The media technologies that I used all throughout my project have made it a lot easier than I thought I could be. I use media technologies during the research, planning or the evaluation stage of the project. For the research stage of the project I used the internet a lot to help in researching music generic music videos, I wanted to find out what all music video had and didn’t have in them. I also used it when research my artist and genre. Youtube, has been a great help to me when I have needed to watch music videos for a wide range of reasons. Youtube.com helped me massively by organising the music video's into certain genres, e.g. Pop/Rock, R&B, Reggae, this made it easy to find music videos from the genre that I was studying. During the planning stage of the project I used programmes such as Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint. These helped me to create my shooting schedule which has helped me to stay on target throughout the project.  When I was filming I only used one camera, a Panasonic, which I borrowed from school. I also borrowed a tripod this has helped in keeping the camera still and making the film look professional.While creating the Advert and the Digipak the main technology/programme was Adobe Photoshop, this is programme helped make editing image easy and efficient. During my AS project I started to use this programme and now I am confident when using this programme. I used a lot of layer when creating my Digipak and advert it made moving the individual cassettes easy, also using the tools provided I could edit the colours and the effect that is on the image. During the editing of the video I used iMovie as my editing software. The programme made it easy to import all of the clips and cut them into place. The iMacs make everything easy and automatically save your work. The iMacs are also really good as they have loads of sound effects, and visual effects that you can use, also burning the video on to the CD can be done on the iMac too so it saved using loads of different technologies.