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

We used many different technological devices in the production of both the draft and final music video, and for the digipak and poster combination. When filming the music video we used the Internet socialising site of Facebook to communicate with each other and decide on a time and location we would film. This helped us to be organised so we could arrange lifts to enable us to all arrive together to gives us the best chance of filming in an easy and efficient way. To communicate we also used the technology of Mobile phones, with the three of us being on a contract phone meant we could text to organise where to meet and what times.
During the research part of the course when we were deciding what song choice and genre to use, we used http://www.blogspot.com/ to keep each other updated about what we had found and to show our individual ideas. We got images and information off http://www.google.com/ to show exactly what we wanted the bands style to be. Uploading this onto blogger allowed the teacher to see our initial ideas of what we wanted to do for our video, and using this site to record our research enabled the teacher to leave feedback on what we had posted. We also set up a Twitter account for a fake band to post details on what the band were doing music wise and what our plans for the near future were. We did gain a few followers from this account which did boost the recognition of our band. To gain followers who thought we were a real band suggests to us that we looked convincing enough to be a real band. I also used a site called Tube chop when analysing music videos that were of the same rock/indie genre i was looking at. I found this easy as it allowed me to take certain sections out of the video to analyse separately.
For the production of the digipak and poster for the media side of the band, i used Photo shop for the full design and making of both. I took the photographs using a Nikon camera that i already owned. This high-tech digital camera enabled me to get the images i wanted and then i used a memory stick to transfer the image from my computer at home to the computer at school. For the fonts i used on the digipak and poster i got them off http://www.dafont.com/ as we could chose from a variety of fonts and find one that fitted the genre of music i was representing.
When making the music video, we filmed it using a HD video camera. We found this easy to use as we uploaded all the shots we had filmed onto a macbook pro and edited the shots into the video from there. We found this an efficiant way to edit as we could all edit our scetion of the video seperatly and then put it together using the Macbook.