Question 4- How did you use media technologies in the construction, planning and evaluation stages?

For the first construction of our music video we used 'iMovie', 'Photoshop'. We also used 'Garageband', 'Digital camera'. Lastly we used 'iTunes' to get our chosen song for our video.

For the planning aspect of our video we used 'Safari' and 'Youtube' to research other music videos to gain ideas from other students work and also professional videos. We did this so our work could get the highest grade possible.

Lastly we used social networking sites such as 'Facebook' for evaluation, as well as 'Youtube'.

iMovie

We used iMovie to edit and put together our music video.

Using this on iMovie I could adjust the duration of a clip and also the speed of it to fit in with the music.

Another section on iMovie is the audio adjustments section, this allows me to change the speed of a the song, faster/slower and also other slight adjustments e.g. fade in/out for when there may be speech or other sound effects.

iMovie also has a section that stores sound effects, your own music and iMovie sounds. This allowed me to access various different sounds created by iMovie which could help me in creating the video. Also by storing my chosen song on the system I could constantly change it, save it and use again.

This section allowed me to add transitions in between different clips to break it up slightly.









Photoshop

This toolbar on Photoshop allowed me to easily access the different tools I wanted to use to create my poster/digipak. For example, the 'T' (text tool) enabled me to add text to my poster, the album title etc.

The magic wand tool (as shown) allowed me to quickly select the outline of an image to delete it all and simply keep the object/person I wanted. This creates smoother lines than the eraser tool as it automatically finds all the background parts but distinguishing the different colours.

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Youtube
 I used Youtube to research other students work to gain ideas, I spent a whole lesson looking at all style models to broaden my knowledge on music videos as I had no previous experience.

Facebook

We used the Facebook application to post pictures of our poster/digipak and our video to get audience feedback on what they liked/didn't like. We used these comments to make our project better.