1/31/2013 9:01:00 AM How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation

stages? Blogger was used to record our findings and our work. As a whole it helped me with organisation skills as I was set tasks to do that I had to post at a specific time post at a specific date. Blogger also allowed me to be creative with the way I presented my blogs. For example with our choice of layout, font, background, because of this I believe it made us more of a group.

All my research, planning, construction and evaluation was shown through blogger. Blogger as a whole allowed to use different technologies within in it to show my work. For example Prezi, Gif Picasion, Wordle, Camtasia, Vlogs ect. I liked the fact that they were so easy to use, and also a creative.

RESEARCH: During the research stages I used the internet. I used sites such as Youtube (videos), DatPiff.com which is a website that specials in mixtape downloads. Whilst looking through the website I found a lot of inspiration from other Hip Hop and R&B artists that had very interesting looking digipaks and mixtape covers. For example Juveniles Juvie Tuesdays. I liked the use of color so I

really wanted to embody someof this into my own digipak and advertisement.

Rita Oras album ORA, shows a close up of her face.

My digipak shows a close up of Solo's face with a rather strong facial expression.

Worldstarhiphop.com (videos), spifftv.com (videos), mediatakeout.com (artists) to search on how artist present themselves to the media, especially new up and coming , clothing and shoe sites such as river island, h&m, office, schuh to look for the type of image that would suit 'Solo' due to him being an Hip Hop & R&B artist.

PLANNING: As a group we drew a story board, so our ideas were planned out, and so that we had a rough idea about what we wanted in our music video. We drew pictures of our party scene, a part with Tom's friend at his birthday party, drawings of karate thing, skateboarding, people in a piggy back race and also Solomon in front a green screen where we had clouds, Remis cheerleading video a sunset, to show nature, as most people do think that nature is nice. Heres one example of one of our basetracks in the storyboard.

We also planned the days that we will be filming by typing on WORD DOCUMENT what time we'll be filming and also where we'll be filming and what our aim for that day will be. For example, whilst filming in the green screen room it was our role to get the lip syning correct due to the many close ups we had to film. As well as this we carried out a risk assessment.

CONSTRUCTION: In terms of construction, I used technology such as brand new state of the art JVC camcorders which were used to record our footage. For example when we filmed at Mile end skate park and on the green screen.

Memory cards allowed us to save whatever footage we had. Final cut pro editing

Camera - To take photos for mock up. Photoshop - ancillary work

G Raid Mini

EVALUATION: During this evaluation stage I've used camtasia, which has helped me a lot in terms of getting videos. So I can record myself talking about a video in more dept. Or I can annotate my evaluation on the video.

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