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

For the research and planning section, we used the website Youtube quite a lot to look at existing music videos in order to get our ideas for our own music videos. We also used Youtube to look for tutorials in how to do text typography which was very useful because we created we managed to create a demo text typography video. We also used Youtube to actually upload the demo video and our music video. We used social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter to upload the videos and get some feedback from our friends and followers. So for Facebook, we uploaded our draft video and we let our friends to comment on the video to see what areas we need to improve on in terms of camera angles and locations etc. We didn’t get as a big response on Twitter for our draft music video due to the fact that the majority of our friends do not have a Twitter account. We also uploaded our final music video onto Facebook using the same process as our draft video. For our filming/producing section we used the Sanyo VPC WH1 Waterproof HD video camera. We used this camera because it films in 720p HD, which will appeal to the audience especially if they are watching the video via Youtube because the Internet now can host HD videos. Personally, when searching for videos onto Youtube, videos that can be viewed in 720p are more appealing than videos recorded in just 360p/480p. So hosting a video in HD will not only be more appealing to me, it would be more appealing to a wider range of people. We were well aware we needed to use a camera that produced high resolution results in order to make it in tip top HD. We used other equipment to help us with our filming such as a tripod which allowed us to keep our shots steady and a stills camera which allowed us to produce the photos we used in our ancillary tasks.
To edit our main task, we used video editing software called Sony Vegas 10 mainly because we were comfortable with the software and it produces professional results. We also used Adobe after effects for the text typography in the video and the use of colours with the fast cuts. Adobe after effects was also used for our creation of the digi pack with the sunlight effect etc. For our poster we used Photoshop as it is very professional software and we used it to cut out the background of certain images etc. A software called cinema 4d was also used for the text of the poster.
We created our own blogs using blogger to show our research, planning and production of our media products.