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

1. How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stage? PLANNING & RESEARCH MOBILE PHONE : This was key due to the fact that it was instrumental in keeping in contact with the cast, crew. It was also vital when organising location and the times of meeting. Additionally, the mobile phones was also very useful as members in the group who had blackberry messenger were able to broadcast the link to the video to all of their contacts. INTERNET: The internet in terms of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter etc. where very important as they were used to further help get and contact cast and crew members. These sites were also useful when recruiting cast members in the video and when planning to look at locations on Google maps. Also Wordpress, I used this site to upload and update my research and planning stage. COMPUTER: This was fundamental as it was used to create questionnaire’s (Post production research) ,treatments, call sheets & risk assessments, this was useful as this is vital pre-planning before making the product . I also had to use a computer to look at locations on the internet. IPOD: This was useful as it was needed to play the music while filming to make sure the artist was totally in sync with his song when performing. Also, when writing the treatment, this was needed to listen to the lyrics our artist was saying.

2. RESEARCH Internet – This proved to be key due to the fact that for research into the codes and conventions in my artists genre, I used YouTube and Hotnewhiphop to look at many other music videos in the genre. This was important as my main product was to be uploaded to YouTube when completed also. Magazine Advert – I used the search engine Google to look at other artists in my artist’s genre and recognise the codes and conventions in these adverts. Looking at well known artists magazine adverts helped me recognise what was needed to help my magazine advert promote my main product successfully. CD Album covers – I used the search engine Google along with my own knowledge of existing products to look at codes & conventions of CD covers in my artists genre. This research was important as I needed to make sure my product conformed to conventions so that the front cover was recognizable as a hip-hop/rap front cover. EXISTING PRODUCTS

3. CONSTRUCTION Digital Camera & Tripod: I used this to film the entire video at a good standard and used the tripod to stand the camera up when filming. I manipulated the height of the tripod and the angles I held the camera to get different angles and shots throughout constructing the video SLR Camera: I used a SLR camera to take photos of my artist for my CD album cover, CD booklet and my magazine advert. I used this camera as it was professional as the pictures I took were high quality. Adobe Photoshop Cs4: I used this software to edit and manipulate my photos so that they conform to codes & conventions prior to putting the photos on my ancillary texts. Adobe InDesign CS4: I used this software to construct and produce my CD album cover, CD booklet and a magazine advert. I also used this software to add text to the ancillary texts I made in adobe Photoshop CS4. Final Cut Pro: I used this software to edit the filming I did with the digital camera to construct my music video. As I was a novice to this software, I had to develop my editing skills in order to produce a final product which was of a certain quality standard for my audience. Hard-drive: This was used to store all the filming captured from the tape used when filming the music video. It was vital this was not lost and that we kept it safe when using it.