Evaluation Question 4 Draft

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

• Canon 500DSLR camera - construction stage: we used this to film all of our video, both the draft and the actual work, as well as taking pictures of our artist and other elements that were important in our planning stage i.e. location.
• TP30 Miranda Titan tripod - construction stage: we used this to film our actual video, as the tripod we used for the draft didn't fit the camera we were using to film and therefore made the footage for our draft wobbly.
• Tripod (school) - construction stage: we used this to film our draft music video, but as it made our footage wobbly we didn't use it for our final video.
• MacBook Pro - construction, research, planning stage: Sarah's MacBook was very useful as it allowed the two of use to do research into our genre of music together, as well as the planning of our video. We also used iMovie on the Mac to edit our music video, meaning it was an important part of our construction stage.
• iMovie - construction stage: we decided to use iMovie to edit our video, as it was more convenient because we could work out of school and it is also considered to give better results as it is easier to use than other editing software.
• scribd - research and planning stage: Scribd was mainly used to present research about our target audience and music genres and to show our shot list. Using Scribd meant that all the information was shown clearly.
• youtube - research and planning stage: Youtube allowed us to embed music videos that we liked and consequently help us to decide on our genre of music. It also let us decide what elements from other videos that we could include in our own video.
• Photoshop - construction stage: This was used to create the draft and final versions of our digipaks and magazine adverts, as well as editing the still images of our actor and the sky used in our video.
• iPhone 4 - construction and planning stage: Sarah's phone was mainly used to take images of props and locations whilst we were outside filming our video, as the camera on her phone is better than mine, meaning we have clearer images.
• iPhone 3GS - planning stage: My phone was used to blog off when we had any new ideas or problems as it allowed us to post on the go.
• blogger - construction, research, planning and evaluation stage: This is where all our changes, ideas, research, planning, draft pieces, final pieces and evaluation of our work was uploaded to. It also let us give feedback to other media students and receive our own feedback for peers.
• scanner - planning and evaluation stage: A scanner was used to upload our storyboard and Sarah's evaluation notes of our draft video, as it was quicker than typing up all the points and meant that our storyboard was on our blog twice, as the images and in the video which showed how our video would pan out.
• tumblr - research, planning and evaluation stage: Tumblr was very useful to gain images which fitted in with our genre and also gave use an idea of how we would like our artist to look. We also used tumblr to gain feedback for our video.
• tubechop - research stage: We tubechoped clips of music videos we liked to emphasise which points in a certain video we would liked or were thinking of including to our own video.
• slideshare - evaluation stage: This is one of the technologies that were used for the evaluation questions.
• animoto - research and planning stage: This was useful to show all the images and text that were revelant to our music genre and helped us to plan what we wanted to include in our video.
• Safari - construction, research, planning and evaluation stage: This gave us access to everything we needed to create our entire project.
• Facebook - evaluation stage: We posted our video onto facebook to gain feedback for our evaluation from people in our target audience.
• Twitter - research and planning: Twitter let us gain interest in our artist and feedback about whether our artist had the right sort of look and personality.
• Prezi - evaluation stage: This is one of the technologies that were used for the evaluation questions.