How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research

and planning and evaluation stages?

New Technologies Used In The Research Stages...

For the primary research we used Survey Monkey to collect information from the Kate Nash fan audience. This helped us decide which video was most popular and what made it that popular, which contributed to how we planned our storyboard of our video.

We used facebook as part of the primary research to publish the questionnaire we created on Survey Monkey so that we could collect feedback and response.

We used YouTube to research Kate Nash music videos so we could find out the forms and conventions and include them in our music video.

New technologies used in the planning stages...

We used blogger in the planning stages to document our findings and analysis of Kate Nash’s music videos and also to plan what we were going to do for our music video. We used blogger in our last year, but the format had changed this year.

We used photoshop to do drafts and plans of what out digipak would look like. They were rough plans and they are not as developed as our final digipak pages. The rough plans were created within 10 minutes, we used our knowledge from last year for the plans.

We used a computer and mainly the internet to find sample images that we could use for the plan of the digipak. Also we used the internet to find the lyrics of the song to plan the events of the music video.

New technologies used in the construction stages...

We used photoshop to construct the pages of our digipak. We learnt a lot of different tools that we didn’t use last year. Use of the magnetic lasso tool, which we used to cut around the photographs of the artist.We used Final Cut Pro to create out music video, this was a completely new piece of software to us, and it took us a while to work out how to use it to it’s potential. This programme is responsible for the editing of the videos we filmed.

We used a Mac Book to do the editing on the music video and organise the videos and images we had taken. This was a new piece of hardware to most of our group. Fortunately, one person from our group owns one and knows how to use it. This was helpful as this was the only piece of technology we could use Final Cut Pro on.

New technologies used in the construction stages…

We used a Cannon SLR camera to film the music video in scenes and also used it for taking images that we were going to use on the digipak. This was a new piece of equipment to us, but we managed to learn how to use it easily.

We used YouTube in the construction stage to download the song we needed for the music video. Without YouTube we wouldn’t have been able to get hold of the song, so our music video would have been silent.

New technologies used in the evaluation stages…

We used Survey Monkey in the evaluation stage for creating a questionnaire to find out what the audience thought of out music video, when we posted it around the internet, without Survey Monkey it would have made it a lot harder to get response back from the audience.We used Blogger in the evaluation stage

for putting our analysis and evaluating of the video and digipak we have created. Without this our work would not all be in one place and it wouldn’t have been as easy to see what we have done and what else needs to be uploaded. I learned how to upload a presentation created on Microsoft PowerPoint onto Blogger.

New technologies used in the evaluation stages…

I used Microsoft PowerPoint in the evaluation stage for presenting answers and analysis of the digipak and video we have created. PowerPoint helps me easily organise my thoughts into well presented slides that are more interesting to read than a full page of writing.I used Microsoft Word in the evaluation stage for presenting analysis of the audience feedback for both research and product. This programme helped me arrange screenshots and images taken from our work with text analysing what the audience thought of the work. I used Slideshare for the evaluation

stage so that I could upload documents created on Microsoft PowerPoint onto Blogger. Without this, Blogger wouldn’t allow PowerPoint presentations to be uploaded.