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

The most obvious use of new technologies is the use of the internet:

Though we have used the internet before this tool became very useful to us. We not only used it for help in research into our chosen artists, ancillary task etc but we are also using it to blog our findings and show our development and research. We have used the website ww.blogger.com to construct a format for the showing of our media texts and products. We have also used it to display our research. We have also used the internet in helping with our research. Without the internet we couldn’t have found out about our artist (Justice) as our artist belongs to a genre of music that without the internet would not be thriving today (electronic/dance). Also for the evaluation stage we have used the internet. Without the internet we wouldn’t have been able to get the picture, links and video that are required for our blog. The internet also helped us plan for our video shot. With the ability to email all involved we were able to let the cast know where and when they were needed for the video.

We also needed to actually get the music for our video. We found the song using a set list of songs provided for us on Spotify. We then downloaded the track off iTunes. These were both very familiar to us all because all of us have used/use these programmes almost everyday.

Another new media technology that we used were the Macs. The group hadn’t used these before so it was a challenge to get used to them at first. However both of us have used them before, and the programmes that we needed to use were quite simple to explain to the others. On the Macs we used Final Cut Pro which we hadn’t used before however. After our teacher showed us how to use it however it became quite simple to use which aided the editing stage of the film immensely.