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

Without new technology this project would not have been able to happen. New technology has been used throughout the whole project from research to planning to production.

Research: youtube, google, google images

Having access to such sites as youtube allowed me to research the same genres and take inspiration of location and themes. This particular use of new technology helped make the final music video as conventional as possible, as the website allowed me to understand conventions and similarities with in the genre

Google and mainly google images helped  for the research of the ancillary tasks. It was used to view different promotional posters and CD covers and digi-pak's. This particular research was also very important as it gave an understanding of codes and conventions of real media products.

Planning:

Facebook was mainly used to keep the group interactive, it was decided that this would be used as everyone in the group already had an account and it was simple. It was used to set up meetings and discuss general questions and queries. This was all done via facebook messenger.

Dropbox was another piece of technology that kept the group interactive when we were apart. A shared folder was created in which the group could upload documents and images which were then accessible to the rest.



shared dropbox folder

The Adobe suite was used for planning, Photoshop was used for the manipulation of images, Illistrator for the manipulation of text and InDesign to combine everything together. Constructing test pieces helped as they then progressed into final ideas.

Youtube and google were also used for the planning stage, to help develop knowledge and understanding.

Construction:

Premier Pro was used in the construction to put all the shorts together to make the final video. The group already had previous experience on how to use this piece of software so when it came round to using it we could get stuck in.

The Adobe Suite was again used for the construction of the ancillary tasks. Across PhotoShop, Illistrator and InDesign a promotional package was created to advertise the music video that was created using Premier Pro.

Across the whole project other equipment was used throughout such as, a tripod, a dolly, a Nikon SLR camera for stills and a HD Sony handy cam. These pieces of technology were the most vital to the whole project as they captured the footage giving it a professional feel and captured the stills that were used for the Ancillary tasks.

Blogger.com was also used throughout the project to publish development on how the project was going, giving pros and cons about certain aspects.