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

Firstly for planning and researching i viewed several genres of music videos on youtube until finding the genre i felt would be best suited for a video i would like to create. I chose the pop genre and this enabled me to widen my research into social networking sites such as myspace and facebook to search for unsigned bands/artists in the genre.

I then started to search uncopyrighted music sites such as :

- http://freeplaymusic.com/

- http://www.creativecommons.com/

I found it hard searching these websites because many of the songs didnt have vocals. Altough after in depth research i finally found my song 'how does it feel'.

I used a imac computer to research my song and uploaded it to imovie where i would be editing my video.

imac imovie



- Digital video camera to record my video, the camera was easy to use and had a lot of battery life which helped as filming took several hours. 

- Photoshop to edit images for my Album and magazine advert, for example adding in titles and dates to my magazine advert, the software was also easy to use and had a lot of useful editing techniques. 

- Blogger to process my documents such as lyrics, evaluation, upload videos etc. It was a easy blog to use and displayed my documents nicely, being easy to access and understand for other people. 

- Wordle to process my lyrics into a visual. 

- Digital camera for pictures of my magazine advert and album cover. I took the pictures and uploaded them to my own home computer and placed them onto my blog and memory stick. 

- Paint application to cut screen shots for evaluation. Cutting the shots from quick time player and pasting them in paint and saving.