When researching, the author used various media technologies like Blogger, YouTube, Prezi, and Wordle to make their research visual and interesting. These tools helped structure and present their analysis. During planning, the author used Blogger to present initial concepts for their final pieces, including a draft digi pack and advert design featuring multiple characters. However, they later decided to focus the advert solely on the main artist. While constructing their music video and ancillary tasks, the author used equipment like cameras, Final Cut and iMovie. They storyboarded, scheduled filming, and got feedback throughout the process to develop their ideas from initial drafts to final versions.

1. Q4) How did you use media
terminologies in the construction
and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
By Fiona Grafen

2. Research

3. When researching different genres of music as well as
different videos. I used different media technologies
such as Blogger, YouTube, YouTube annotations, Slide
Rocket, Prezi, Wordle, and screen grabs. Here are
examples of each of them.

4. These technologies in particular were really useful as they help to created as
my visual and interesting to the viewer looking at them. The prezi showed
structure and guidance to the analysis of the research that I have carried out
in different areas of this project. I also find Slide share useful as it is a
sophisticated way of presenting work. I used media technologies in
construction of my research to make it visual and presentable to the viewer
looking at it.

5. Planning

6. When planning our media video and ancillary task we used blogger to
present are planning for our concepts towards are final pieces.
Digi Pack:
This Digi Pack below shows our initial ideas that we first came up with
when planning out what panels to fit and what would link with our genre
as well as our artist’s appearance. At the time we were planning our
album cover we thought about challenging the conventions of a Disco
Pop genre by using extreme close up of an eye. We thought about this
idea because our piece is based around emotions and as a well know fact
emotion is seen most through an eyes of a person.

7. When planning our piece and the album cover as well as the Digi pack we
thought about combining different characters in different scenarios and
having the main actor portraying freedom and how he is living the free life to
not giving in. With the different characters in mind when we came to create
our plan for our advert design we thought about using all the characters in
our piece and using the tools Photoshop to construct it all together.
However, when we came to creating the advert and studying real media ones
we decided it would look professional if we based our advert on the main
artist instead of everyone.
However, When we were thinking about this as a draft plan for our first
advert this is how we were going to go about constructing it: This advert will
be created using Photoshop. It will consist of 8 layers. Each of the layers is as
follows:
Background layer ( Fence)
Layer 1 ( Main actor- Scott Wells)
Layer 2 ( Interrogation character)
Layer 3 ( Work character)
Layer 4 ( Dancer 1)
Layer 5 (Dancer 2)
Layer 6 ( Punch bag and fist ( Opacity to be lowered))
Layer 7 (black background to the writing)
Layer 8 ( Text layer " FRAMES,NOT GIVING IN SINGLE OUT JULY 2013")
This advert design will show all the characters involved whilst keeping the
main actor noticeable as he will be featured in colour whilst the rest will be
black and white. The fence as the layer for the back ground will represent
how all the characters are sitting on the fence between giving in and not
giving in. However, the other idea we have is that we might just focus the
advert cover on the main artist instead of using the other characters. This will
draw the attention on to him and the importance that he brings into the
piece.

8. The other areas we looked at when planning were
locations, costumes, skills when using Photoshop, Green
Screen, track permission letters animatic, song detail plus
lyric annotation, concept, image annotation, roles and story
board. These different areas created our planning stages to
starting us of on a successful route. We were aware whilst
doing it that our media concept could elaborate from our
original ideas.

9. Construction

10. When constructing our music video and ancillary task together we
needed to make sure we had all equipment booked out for the day we
needed to film. When creating our piece we had to keep in mind that a
still shot looks better than a jumpy one. To solve this problem we used a
fig rig to hold the shot steady. When editing we used final cut and Imovie
to import. However, when importing images we used Iphoto to install all
the images onto the computer. When picking out titles and fonts for our
album cover we used Da font. As well as Photoshop to construct it all
together. If we wanted to use Slow shutter speed we needed a tripod to
hold the camera steady whilst it captured the movement of the Pois. We
got audience feed back though out as well as teacher to get an idea of
what they thought of our media work so far.

11. Development time line of the Digi pack
from first draft through to final draft:

12. Development time line of the Advert
Cover from first draft through to final
draft.

13. Evaluation.

14. For the Evaluation the techniques I have used most to
make this super visual for the viewer is screen captures
and comparing real media text to our ones and how we
got influenced as well as challenging them. For question
2 I have used Slide rocket and screen grabs to make this
visual and easy for the reader to follow. However, in
conclusion to question 4 I have used a range of
mediums whilst doing this project and I have learned
and used previous techniques that I new from basic
portfolio and I have also brought other skills from other
subjects such as photography to this project to make it
strong.