Question 4 - Plan

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

RESEARCH -

• YouTube to search for existing music videos, both student-made and professional, and blogger to share our research findings, allowing analysis of products and development of ideas
• use of google to search for existing ancillary products to find out what styles and conventions are appropriate to use. also finding products that are similar to the genre of music that we are using, to find stereotypical aspects of the certain ancillary products. 
• use of survey monkey to get audience research about general music videos, finding out what people expect of a music video and also to gain some feedback about our rough cut 

PLANNING -

• blogger was the main technology used in the planning section of our coursework - really easy to use and is simplistic. Used previously in AS work so I already knew how to use it and did not have to spend time learning the functions of a blogging site. Also convenient as everything can be kept in one place and is stored online so it can be accessed from almost anywhere
• use of YouTube to research existing products and to draw comparisons to help construct ideas for our own products, drawing on ideas from all that we'd researched before.

CONSTRUCTION -

• digital camera - easy to use/familiarise self with, can carry around with you easily - lightweight and does a mixture of functions (video and camera)
• premiere pro for editing - software that I am already familiar with because I have used it already for AS coursework.
• adobe photoshop for the creation of the two ancillary products: poster and digipak - software that is readily available to us at school so it is easy to access and not too difficult to use. Has many features that allow you to manipulate a photo is almost any way that you want to get a desired effect
• microsoft powerpoint used to make the thumbnail for our music video

EVALUATION -

• Prezi used to showcase evaluative points for some of the question, giving explanations and detail into developments in skills and abilities over time (possible use of video diaries/voice recordings over texts and images too) - used it previously so I am familiar with the software and was able to use it fairly easily to display my ideas
• digital camera to record footage and premier pro to edit it together
• blogger to showcase my planned ideas
• Microsoft word was used to plan answers to the evaluation questions. This is a software that I am familiar with and so it was easy to use and I didn't have to learn anything new to use it