Evaluation Question 4

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

We used blogger to update our work that we did in our groups. Blogger was a useful site that we used because we had the advantage of posting pictures and other people (teacher and friends) can post comments. All the research, planning, permission, and evaluation are in the blog.

We used YouTube to research similar music, then we analysed the music we had researched, confirmed our music choice as a group.

Google was one of the sites we used the most, if there was something we had to research on or get some background information on something or if we needed any pictures then Google was the first thing that came to mind.

As Alex has a similar style to what we chose for the costumes, we have chose the following outfits from ASOS.com based on the knowledge of Alex's style.

Our model Emma Yates has her own lookbook online (www.lookbook.nu/emmayates)

so we have taken the photographs of her outfits from that, it is exactly how we want her to look, classy and sophisticated but also sexy. She is perfect for our music video.

We used some fonts for our magazine from http://www.dafont.com/. This was a helpful site because it had a variety of fonts for us to choose from for our coursework.

Facebook is a good site because facebook allows us (group) and friends to comment on our music video.



We used a camera for recording our music video and taking pictures of the bedroom, shot lists story boards etc.

We used a memory card to save our files and the music video itself. Without the memory card our coursework would have been much harder because we wouldn’t have been able to save the work. The memory card was useful because it meant that we could easily transfer files from the camera into the computer then finally the blog.

We used Photoshop to edit our pictures. We cropped pictures, added effects, inserted backgrounds etc.

We used premiere elements to edit our music video, to add effects, edit and crop shots. We could also add music to the video and edit the music too.

For our Animatics we used windows movie maker, we added our shots that we took with our camera, added music to the background, and this gave us a rough idea of how our music video would look like after it’s all done.

We used a memory stick (hard drive) to take our work home and we worked on it while we were at home, some files were too large to be uploaded on to our email.