Evaluation: Q4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

There were many different media technologies that i used throughout the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages of this piece of work. Throughout the construction stages i used many different media technologies such as the camera I used to film, Internet, photoshop and final cut.

I used the camera to film all of my footage. To get the right angles and mise-en-scene within the shots that i was taking i used zoom. By using zoom it enabled me to get the right effect for my audience for example: rather than using all long shots i was able to create close-ups and extreme close-ups especially of the artist and also to show the time during different parts of my music video. For example:

I also used photoshop to create my ancillary tasks. By using this media technology it enabled me to create different effects for my DVD cover that would reach out to my targeted audience. Some of the effects i used were an outer glow around the artist as shown below:

Out of all the technologies that i used the two that i did find hard to use were photoshop and final cut. I found with photoshop that there were so many different icons to click to do different things that i found it hard to remember what one did what, therefore i had to keep going over my work to see what each one did. I did finally get to grips with photoshop after experimenting with the different icons and I did eventually know what i was doing and what i wanted to achieve.