A screenshot of our analysis of our survey from Survey Monkey.

Screenshot of our Adobe Premiere Pro timeline of our product.

Screenshot of us uploading our focus group video.

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

Within the time in which I have been doing this A2 media course, I have used many different types of technology to ensure a descent quality whilst creating my main product and coursework.

Firstly, in our planning stage to start off with, when we drew up our storyboard for our music video, we decided it would be best to hand draw it and take a picture of it. So we used a digital camera (Canon IXUS 132) to take a picture and transferred it to our computer to then upload to our blog. We used the digital camera to give a good quality image for our blog. We also did the same thing for our group planning. The

reason we used this piece of equipment over other cameras was so that we truly got a professional looking camera for a good photo.

Within our research stage we also used a specific kind of technology by using an online piece of software called Survey monkey to get peoples thoughts on what they think would make a good music video, what should be in a music video etc. We used this software as it was free, easy to distribute and simple to use. We then used PowerPoint to show our results and

analyse them further. To show our PowerPoints on our blog

we used software called slideshre to embed our PowerPoints onto our blogs with ease. We used Survey Monkey over other survey sites because we had more experience with it and knew it would work well. We used Slideshare for basically these reason, we had experience and knew how to use it.

Upon asking our focus group the interview questions, we deemed it best to record their response so we could refer back to it at a later date. So we decided to use a Sony Handycam HDR- PJ220 to record our interview and then edit and trim it down to a

more professional look in Adobe Premiere Pro. We then uploaded it to YouTube to make it far easier to embed to our blog and also much easier

for all of the team who need to see this can see it easily. We used premiere pro over other pieces of software due to the fact we had experience using the software and we found the software to

Screenshot of my work on Scribd.

make our video more professional We also used YouTube to publish our video as we knew that lot’s of people use YouTube to find music and therefore would be the best place to find and further the audience.

Also during our planning stages, we used an online piece of software called Scribd which allowed us too easily; once again, embed our work onto our blog but with Scribd being a prime one for transporting word files from our own computers onto our blogs.

When it came down to our actual recording and construction stage, we used a fair amount of different technology to make our music video very professional and very well made. To start off with we used the high definition camera in which we used in our focus group interview (Sony Handycam HDR-PJ220) with a tripod to

keep steady and professional angles and shots throughout the video. Once we had filmed our music video we used an USB cable to transfer the footage and then further edited it and synched it with

the song through the further use of Adobe Premiere Pro.

So finally, when we began construction of our digipak and magazine advertisement. We first of all acquire a more professional digital camera for much more high definition and dynamic images so we decided to use a Fujifilm FinePix S4800 Digital Camera to take images of Taylor (our singer) and the backing environment for our advert and digipak. We used this camera to get the best pictures

possible so that our advert and digipak would look the utmost professional. We then used Photoshop to edit the pictures to fit the size of the digipak and advertisement and after a few more tweaks with adding texts and adding

layers then we had our final advertisement and digipak product. As a team, we hadn’t used it before so we had to learn how to use the software professionally to make a successful product.

Our final product for our magazine advertisement after a lot of Photoshop work done.