Evaluation Question 4

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

The first thing my group did was to pool together our ideas, we looked into genres, bands and narratives and conventions which would go with each which helped us come to a conclusion. We decided to go with the Rock/metal genre due to already having an interests, and there fore prior knowledge, and also we knew a reliable band of this genre.

After this we went off individually and looked at real media tests of our genre on you-tube. This helped us find generic conventions we would like to follow and go against such as, location, lighting, narrative and costumes.  We put our findings onto blogger which helped us keep a track of our individual and group research on both our video and ancillary tacks.

When we where thinking about our ancillary tasks we used a Nikon DLSR camera to do photo shoots in various locations to make sure the quality of our images where clear and to a good standard. We used that same camera so that the photos where constant in quality.
We used the Photoshop software to edit all of our photos as well as but together our magazine advert and diji pack. It took a long time because we only know the basics of the software but it came out to a professional looking standard. 

We used IMovie to create our music video. All clips where imported straight from the HD camera, they where easy to access through the software and the HD made every shot very clear. The software allowed us to add different effects over clips and adjust lighting levels, this meant we could get our desired effect easily and make every clip the same to fit the convention of our genre
.Media technology's have been essential in the making of our video and ancillary tasks without them all stages would have been very difficult. Without websites such as YouTube and Blogger our research and planning would have been very hard to do and keep track of. Also without software such as IMovie and Photoshop we wouldn't have been able to make products look as professional as we want them to be.