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

When filming the main product, all of the footage was recorded on a HD digital camera, excluding some external footage gained on holiday on a camera phone. We chose a HD camera because we wanted optimum quality of filming for our camera shots and footage, which would be lower if the camera was not HD.

During the editing phase of the music video we used Final Cut Express, this was very easy to use and also very efficient.

During the planning stage I used lots of different programmes such as:

• Microsoft Word
• Facebook
• Youtube
• Google

These were all very important in their own way. To research music videos for my genre I mainly used Youtube and Google, as these both have ways of viewing videos very quickly and efficiently. I mainly used Google to search for images of the artist and research into similar artists, I also looked up the lyrics to the song on Google, for lyrics research. Music channels were also a good medium for research, as it allowed a broad range of different genres to be looked at.

The first thing that we did at the beginning of the year was set up a blog which is then easy to display all of our research and planning, and other work, it was also very good with progress updates therefore we blogged every step of the way. Blogger is a very useful tool to use as it was easy to embed videos and pictures, this meant we could upload pictures of our audience feedback with the use of a scanner.

Having a personal mac at home is very handy as it allowed me to do my own research at home, which I was then able to email and relay to the rest of the group via facebook/email.