Evaluation- Q3. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation stages?

I have used many media technologies in the stages of construction and research, planing and evaluation which helped me gain more information and gain a wider understanding of how media products were produced. 

In the making of my music video and the lip sync tutorial, we have used brand new state of the art video cameras and memory cards in order to film our product. I have used the memory cards to save my work and transfer them from the video cameras to my hard drive in order to work on them on the macs. 

I have used blogger to blog all the work i have done including the research, planning and evaluation. I have presented my work and information on my blogs in writing, images and videos to make it more creative. Blogger was like an online diary as it helped me to keep up to date with my research, planing and evaluation. as everything i did and worked on was recored on my blog.

Another part of media technology I have used is internet for research purposes, I have done many researches such as looking at real music videos and gathering information such as artists their production companies. This helped me to easily see examples of real media products. I have searches for examples such as digipacks, images of Lily Allen, genre types and ect.

I have used photoshop and Quark xpres for the construction of my ancillary products. Photoshop was used to makes my advert for my music video. I have used many tools suck as the 'lasso tool' to cut around the images that I have picked to use on my advert and the digipack. I have used Quark to make my digipack as the digipack templates were on Quark, although I used Quark to finish my digipack with font and effects, I also used photoshop as there weren't any tools to edit images such as the 'lasso tool' thats I have used in photoshop.

I have also used another programme which was Final Cut Pro for editing my music video as I to cut the clips with the razor tool in order to keep the lyrics on track with the movements and lip sync the clips we have taken.