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

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

Media technologies were hugely important in all stages of creating our piece. Below are all the ways in which I used various technologies.

RESEARCH AND PLANNING

• Madonna.com – This helped me gain better insight into my star study of Madonna

• Google – Google helped me many times throughout the construction and research stage, it helped me find various websites which helped me with the research. 

• Google images – I needed to find a lot of images throughout the research and planning of the piece, thus Google Images was a big help.

• Wikipedia – Although not the most respected/trusted websites, it did help me in finding out information. However, I know not everything on Wikipedia is to be trusted and so I double checked the information was correct before using it.

• Youtube – Youtube was used for a variety of different reasons throughout the construction and research, sometimes for finding videos for the star analysis, or finding videos to analyse for Goodwin’s theory, or even for uploading our audience research. Youtube was used many times in the research and planning of the piece.

• IMDB – IMDB was very useful for finding out dates of births or birthplaces of particular artists, or even finding out their real names and awards they had been nominated for.

• Paint – When printscreening clips from Youtube, I needed to then crop the screengrab in Paint and turn it into an actual picture which would be uploadable to Blogger.

• Finalcut Pro – We used this in our construction and research when doing our audience research, we needed to edit all of the clips together and turn it into a video, with a soundtrack and so on.

• Kerrang Magazine – We had to analyse two magazine adverts, so I bought a ‘Kerrang’ magazine so that I could take two magazine adverts from it.

• Lyrics.com – I was constantly looking up lyrics throughout the duration of the construction and research, be it for our actual music video ‘Little Lady’ or for the video analysis’ where I included the lyrics to the music videos in the posts.

• Edsheeran.com – We had to get permission from the artist/the artist’s representative and so we went onto Ed Sheeran’s official website, found the email that we had to contact to find out, and emailed them straight away – they were back to us within mere minutes giving us permission to use his song.

• Gmail – We used Gmail to obviously email Ed Sheeran’s representative, but also to stay in contact with each other in a more formal way.

• Camera – This was used when filming the audience research.

• Blogger – The most obvious one of all, Blogger – every piece of work we do needs to be put on our own individual blogs in order to show that we are doing the tasks set.

• Phones – In order to stay in contact with each other and find out instantly where the other members of our group were, it was hugely important we had each other’s numbers so we could contact each other every time we needed to. 

• Drawings – I drew the storyboard for our music video on paper to give us all a better vision of the piece, but I also drew my first drafts of my digipak and magazine advert to give an idea of what I was hoping to do with my final pieces. 

• Digital Camera – We needed a digital camera to take the pictures for our animatic, which gave the audience an idea of the shots that would be used for our final music video.

• Starnow.co.uk – We used this website to look for possible actors who could star in our music video.

• TRIPOD – This was obviously very important when filming our audience research, we needed to have a steady shot or the research would have looked poor and unplanned.

• Mac – We obviously used the Mac computers to do most of our work, but mostly for the editing process of the audience research. 

CONSTRUCTION:

• CAMERA – We used the camera to film all the scenes of our music video.

• TRIPOD – Sometimes a tripod was not necessary, but generally we wanted to keep the camera steady which is near impossible if you do not have a tripod, thus why it was important.

• MAC – We used the Mac to log and capture all of our footage and then to edit it.
• FINALCUT PRO – This was the editing software we used to edit our music video together.
• YOUTUBE –  We used Youtube to upload our final music video so that people can see it easily as it is so accessible.
• ADOBE PHOTOSHOP – I used Photoshop in the construction of my Final digipak and magazine advert.

EVALUATION:

• Finalcut pro – We used Finalcut Pro to edit our audience feedback.
• Youtube – We used Youtube to upload our audience feedback to so that we could
• Paint – I used paint when taking screenshots from Youtube of our music video, I had to transfer the shots to paint in order to turn them into actual pictures.
• Powerpoint – To vary the presentation of my evaluation questions, I decided to do question one as a powerpoint presentation.
• Camera – We used a camera to film our audience feedback, we went around and asked people to watch our music video then asked them what they liked and what they did not like, and we filmed their answers.
• Tripod – We needed a tripod in order to keep the shots steady.
• Mac – The Mac was used various times in the evaluation, but mostly for logging and capturing our audience feedback and then editing it.
• Scribd – Scribd helped me upload my evaluation question one which I had done in the form of a powerpoint presentation.