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

• For the production of my products i used many different types of technologies, new software's and cameras to record my video.

• To research and present all research and work for this music video and ancillary task I used the internet explorer and blogger to blog all my work. I used both of these last year as well so there was no problem as I knew how to use blogger and and how it works.

• I used google to find out all my information and research for this task. I found research such as clothes

CD covers, and music videos.

• For the filming of my music video, at first I used my own camcorder instead of using one from our media department.

• However my videos did not work on the apple macs so I had re film everything mainly using my iPhone.

• Using camcorders I still learnt a lot as I have never really used one so I learnt how to change the settings and film videos better using different types of shots etc. However it was still difficult to get the hang of these shots etc so I had to practice a lot.

• Because the videos did not work from the camcorder I then used my iphone to film, everything and this was very easy I use my iphone every day and have made many videos on it.

• I also used my iPhone to take the pictures for my poster and CD digipack and they came out very clear and good. I used my phone last year aswell to take some pictures so there was no problem with this.

• I used different programs to edit my products. To edit my music video I used iMovie on the macs.

• I have never really used iMovie so I definitely to play around with it first to get the hang of it as it was very confusing and I wasn’t sure exactly what to doo• After getting the hang of using it I focused on editing my video

so cropping, changing the effects, speed and sound and adding the song to the video.

• However it still took a while to make my video and complete it as I think I wasn’t very good with iMovie and it gave me many problems with my videos such as the video was wide and I tried everything to get it to normal screen but nothing worked so that was one problem I couldn’t fix which wasted a lot of time.

• Even though I couldn’t resolve this other problems were much easier to resolve such as transition problems as at first they wouldn’t work with my video but deleting them then adding them again they finally worked.

• This has taught me that I should experiment more so I know what I am doing.

• To make my ancillary task I mainly used photoshop. • I used this because it was the best and easiest way

toedit the pictures and add the text to them. • I mainly used Photoshop for the main task last year

so I knew exactly what I was doing and how to use Photoshop. It is the best way to get certain effects and editing tools on the picture to vget the best results.

• For anything I was unsure about, I asked my teacher and friends who knew what to do, I also searched on Google so I could make my products the best.

• As I used the main picture as the whole cover and poster I changed the exposure and contrast to get the effect on both pictures. This was harder than I expected as I didn’t get the contrast and exposure levels right on both pictures so they look slightly different which wasn’t what I had planned.

• Another technology program i used was Blogger. • I used this to display all my work and my

evaluation for this task.• I also used other technologies to present my

presentation answers such as power point then I uploaded them onto slideshare to share it onto blogger. i aslo wrote some of my answers on blogger as a post.

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