How did you use media technologies in the construction

and research, planning and

evaluation stages?

RESEARCH

For my research I used: Power point to present my research in a clear and simple way, it’s

easy and simple to use. Slideshare to be able to embed my work on power point onto my

blog. Google to find out information on the Geri Halliwell case study, the

Miley Cyrus star theory and images for my research into wider media.

Prezi as creative way to present my work in a more interactive way. Blogger to upload all of my work onto, to make it all viewable in

one place. YouTube to watch the Geri Halliwell video for the case study, and

other case studies. I used YouTube to look at other media texts, such as advert. I also spent a lot of time watching lots of music videos to find out which ones inspired me. Once I knew what genre music the video was, I focused on videos of that genre to gain information of the codes and conventions I needed to use and what worked by analysing them. Using YouTube was vital for analysing music videos and to get a better idea of what audiences expect.

Glogster to present my Geri Halliwell case study. Glogster was slow and was slightly confusing to use but in the end result was successful.

Bubbl.us to show the reflection on my research. Bubbl is an online spider diagram. I found this really useful to show reflection as it shows all the different parts separately and what links.

I used timeline to create the timeline of the genre and band for my music video. I found the timeline ok to se although it did get a bit confusing to use as some bits didn’t save and I had to redo it.

Planning

For my audience research I used: Powerpoint to present my work in a clear format. Google to research into the music video record labels to get as

much information as possible. I also used google to get background information on my chosen track, to get the lyrics for the song

Youtube to look at other music videos within the same genre to get ideas of my target audience and what to include.

SurveyMonkey to create a survey to get audience feedback on what they expect to see within the genre I am using. It was easy to use. It gave me more of an idea on what to include in my music video.

Prezi, I have used prezi throughout my project, mainly in the research, planning and evaluation. I like prezi as it is a creative way of presenting work.

Glogster, to present my audience profile. Glogster was slow and was slightly confusing to use but in the end result was successful

Word, to present my location recce and costumes in a clear way. A scanner to scan in my hand-drawn storyboard, showing another

personal form of creativeness. DSLR Fujifilm camera to take pictures of the shooting location for

the video and of the model. Excel to create the gantt chart which helped me make sure I was

organised, knowing what order and when to do my work in. I also used excel to create pie charts to present my audience feedback data clearly.

PRODUCTION

For my production I used: Adobe InDesign to create my magazine advert and

digipak. I think that this programme was easy to use (because I have used it before) so I knew how to use it.

Google to get a barcode and record label image for my digipak, to make it look realistic.

Adobe PremierPro to produce my music video on. I hadn’t used this programme before but I got used to it after a while.

Sony camcorder to film my music video on. I found this easy to use as I had used it many times before.

DSLR Fujifilm camera to take the images for my digipak and magazine advert.

Word to show all my screenshots of creating my music video, magazine advert and digipak.

EVALUATION

To answer my evaluation questions I used: Prezi as a creative way to present my

work. Powerpoint to present this evaluation

question.