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

Consider your use of the following:

For the final part of the evaluation I am going to explain how i used new media technoligies in the construction, research, planning, and evaluation. And how effective they were in terms of giving my information. Our work is presented on blogger so i had used blogger a huge percentage of the time when writing up my evidence of all the stages of the portfolio.

Youtube was used on many occasions because i had to look up similar artists to the band i was constructing for my portfolio. i also had to analyze music video of different genders, this is the best part of planning as i gain a new understanding of different media materials in the media world, for example i used music videos such as 'candy shop by 5 cent' amongst other love songs and indie tunes. When coming up with the ideas for the music video and constructing a story board this site was used to listen to the music before pasting onto our mp3 and cd.

Google was another source used as i was using this site when it came to planning and research because it gave me the clear identity of what was needed in music videos that i was planning to make such as indie codes and conventions.

The video editing software was new to me as i was only used to using the i-movie as it was simple, but after being told how to use the basics of the final cut pro i started to get the hang of it and using more than just cut and play buttons i became to discover the effects and new ideas that could be included in my music video. I was always on the final cut pro through out all my free time to make everything perfect.

The photo editing software i used was photoshop, it is a simple technology to use. But also makes photos and fonts look professional. photoshop is my favorite computer application as well as final cut pro, because i know how to use it properly and the posters and digipak always end up looking amazing. In photoshop you can change the colors of everything erase different shapes and background by just one click.

In the making of the music video the boys in the band didn't know the words to the song sung by madness, probably because it was an old song written by an old band not known to this day of age by young students. So i had to play the lyrics i wanted sung by the band over and over again, in the end it did work but we sang the words with the character so he had more confidence and got the lines write, we found that this was a good technique because the boys gained more confident and had more of a laugh in the production of it.