Evaluation-Question Four

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

Research:
New media technology helped me considerably on gaining information contributed greatly to how I was able to gain information. One way was thought the Internet, as i researched music videos i able to use YouTube and other video sights to watch a verity of videos to help plan for my own. As YouTube has a wide range of videos it was easy to find the codes and conventions especially 'indie' style videos. I was also able to use google to research, music video directors, companies and was able to find a lot of helpful and reliable websites. This is much quicker and easier than, say, using the library as technology is used a great deal in music and creating such amazing videos so to gain knowledge on such thins one would have to use the Internet rather than search thousand of books, which is time consuming. Also i have an I-Phone 4 which allows me to research as i can connect to the Internet or down load helpful apps, and blog while on the go rather than waiting till i get home or school.

Planning: Video editing software, I-Movie helped to turn the storyboard i made into an animatic so that we could all see our music video coming together, in animac form. This helped make decisions about whether the clips worked well or needed to be improved. I found this more useful and helpful than a normal storyboard as seeing the clips move from one to the other gave me a greater understanding of how the clips would play out. Again good old Internet also helped as we would regularly go on facebook  to keep all of the team members in close contact for planning shoots and when and where for meet-ups as well as mobile phones. Music technology contributed to the planning stage as I was able to listen to the song, envision the video with how i wanted to see it without watching the actual video via. a site such as YouTube and being influenced as this needed to be an original idea thought up by us as a team. Other Social networking site Twitter was used to set up an account for the band, as i said before to make the band assessable to there fans and i guess it makes them more real.

Construction:In the construction stage of the project, again i used the Internet in order to obtain photographs of settings/locations as this was important. Google was amazing source as it provides a wide range of photographs with ins seconds, we were able to find photographs which looked exactly right for our Mood board. I mentioned it before but Photo editing software, Photoshop. I used this when making my digi packs and poster, editing and cropping, changing colours, adding fonts, all hard at first but very easy to get into and very useful to use.
Again Music technology was used as during filming we needed to make sure the lip syncing was spot on and to ensure this we used an I-pod and dock so the lead singer and band new where they were with the song. We used another Video editing software, Final Cut Pro, which i said before. This was used to edit the clips for our music video and place them where we thought was suitable, Final Cut Pro is much more complicated than other editor software's, therefore making it a little more difficult at first but making the video look more professional also.