evaluation question: How did you use media technologies in the planning, research, evaluation, and construction stage of music video, cd cover, mag ad

Tom and I used several media technologies for planning our music video, and photos for our cd cover and magazine ad. The first is the internet which we used to check the weather for the days that we filmed or photographed so that we could know whether it would be rainy or sunny on those particular days so that we could get the right atmosphere from the light of the day so to speak. This helped with the atmosphere of the shots we filmed and with the atmosphere of the photographs we took. We also used our shot plan to keep track of the shots we needed to do in each location. We also used facebook.com to upload our target audience questionnaire to the internet which helped us to plan what shots to put in our music video through looking at the answers to the questionnaire. We also used royaltyfreemusic.com to find the track we used for our music video, cd cover, and magazine ad which is a Kevin Macleod instrumental song called Dead Drop. Finally we used youtube.com to look at music videos we could possibly use ideas from to enhance or start our own music video.

For the research stage of our project Tom and I used several media technologies to help us. The first was google.co.uk/images which I used to get the cd covers, and magazine ads you see on this blog, and help me get inspiration for making my own though I have to say most of the ideas these gave me weren't exactly feasible for this project, especially with my limited grasp of the use of the technology to construct our project. The second was wikipedia.com which I used to give me a grasp of what the history of music videos is, and therefore give me further ideas for what to do for my own. The third was youtube.com which we used to look at more music videos to see what we could use for our music video.

For the evaluation stage of our project we used several technologies. The first of these was facebook.com which Tom and I used to upload a target audience questionnaire to find out what a potential target audience aged between 16 and 19 would like in a music video, cd cover, and magazine ad for a rock genre release package for an album including a music video, cd cover, and magazine ad. We used youtube.com for interim analysis of our partially finished music video. We are in the process of getting evaluation from our target audience for our cd cover, and magazine ad.

For the construction stage for our music video, cd cover, and magazine ad Tom and I used several technologies. The first being a digital camera to take pictures for our cd cover, and magazine ad. The second being a video camera for our music video which we borrowed from the media department at school. We also borrowed a tripod from the school to help keep any scenes we shot with the video camera from coming out shaky because we used our hands to hold the camera in place during filming. The negative point to this was that parts of the tripod kept on falling off or coming off which was sort of annoying. The third piece of media technology we used in the construction of our music video, cd cover, and magazine ad was photoshop which we used to make our cd cover, and magazine ad from most of the photographs Tom and I took after we had finished filming all of our music video scenes. The fourth piece of media technology we used in the construction of our music video, cd cover, and magazine ad was iMovie which we used for making our music video look somewhat professional despite some shaky camerawork, and continuity blips from the changing of the light during the day.