Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

In the construction stage of creating our music video we used a lot of technology, such as a video camera. The video camera was needed to actually film the video. We also used an apple mac to construct our video; we used the apple mac software (IMovie) to do so, IMovie is good in the way that its pretty basic and for someone that has never used software like this before it makes it easier to put together a pretty good product. The way IMovie is set out is good, it has all the recordings spread out at the bottom and the clips you pick out go to the top, this was helpful to put all the recording together and see what we needed and what we didn’t. When we figured out what recording we were going to use we could then start putting everything in place. The apple mac was used a lot for research and planning. I did a lot of research on different songs using the apple mac, this was the key piece of technology I used,  without it we wouldn't have a video. It was used for research, construction of the video, photoshop and to get onto blogger.

We used Google maps to find locations for the music video. Google maps was very useful in the way we could look for good areas to record our video but in a distance ewe could travel. We also used YouTube a lot, this was very helpful in finding music videos that inspired us to create our video in the way we did. It was also helpful because we could read the comments on the video and see what people liked and what they didn't.

The apple mac was very useful for planning, because it allowed to access blogger. Blogger is very useful to post all of our work and planning we have done. Blogger also let us see each other’s work and give some feedback. Blogger was used a lot in our project to post our progression through out, it was also a good way of keeping track of our progression while working. Blogger was useful in the way we could post pictures and videos to show were we got ideas and inspiration from. To me blogger was like a diary, it was constantly getting updated. I used Microsoft word to construct my questioner to get audience feedback, when i got the results back I went back onto the apple mac and went onto Microsoft excel to put the answers together and get a better look at the results.