New media technologies I used within the construction, research and evaluation of my project

I used a combination of both an IMac and a Macbook to create both the ancillary tasks as well as my main product. My Mac experience from my AS project made the construction of my A2 media products much easier.

We used this HD Canon camera to film all of our footage for our music video and the photos which I used for my ancillary products

I used blogger to create a blog to document the progress throughout my project. I recorded all of my research and planning as well as how I made the ancillary products and main product. I also uploaded the product to my blog

when finished.

I used ‘Microsoft Powerpoint’ to create my presentations and then uploadedthem to ‘Slideshare’, before embedding the link on my blog.

We used ‘iMovie’ to create a preliminary music video to help us to gain confidence in editing footage. This was really easy to use and we were able to experiment with various transitions, titles and effects to make our video more effective and appealing to our target audience.

We used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our final music video. This enabled us to again use various transitions, titles and effects to make our video more effective and appealing to our target audience. However Premiere is more advanced than iMovie, and it was harder to use, although allowed us to end up with a much better end product.

I used ‘Adobe Photoshop’ to create my magazine advert and digipak. It includes many tools which I used to make the media products link with my main product, more effective and appealing to my target audience.

After creating an account, I uploaded some of my photos to ‘Photosnack’ so that I could present them on my blog in a photo gallery by embedding

the link.

I used Youtube a lot when planning and researching to learn about the conventions of dance and acoustic music videos. I also used Youtube to

upload my own video, to enable me to upload it to my blog and also so that others can see it easily

I found the internet extremely useful when it came to researching, as I was able to find out a huge amount of relevant and interesting information. By

searching “fonts” in ‘Google’, I found the website ‘Dafont’. This allowed me to find any font I needed which helped me to create visually attractive ancillaries.

In the evaluation process, I uploaded my video to Facebook to access my target audience directly and ask for

their response.

I used emailing often throughout the project, this allowed me to gain contact with my actresses, my teacher and when contacting sony to ask for permission to use the track which my video is to. I also texted and imessaged a lot to plan filming dates with my

actresses and co producer.