Tamara used various media technologies throughout the construction, research, planning, and evaluation of her music video project. She created a blog using Blogger to research different types of music videos and share her planning documents. She also used YouTube to post research videos and embed her work, as well as SlideShare to share documents. For planning and construction, she used a Sony video camera, DSLR camera, Photoshop, Final Cut Express, and GoAnimate. To evaluate her work, she uploaded her video to YouTube and shared it on Facebook and Blackberry Messenger to gather feedback from a wide audience through social media.

1. Evaluation question 4: How did
you use media technologies in the
construction and research,
planning and evaluation stages?
By Tamara Johnson

2.  In the making of my music video and creation of my digipak and
magazine advert we used a variety of media technologies. One
of the forms of media technology I have used is “Blogger”.
Blogger is a website that is used for sharing texts, pictures,
videos and anything else you would like to show to viewers.
You can create your own blog and by doing this you can publish
lots of posts.
In the making of my music video I have created a blog and
used my blogger throughout the whole process till the end. My
blog has been used in construction, research, planning and
evaluation stages. When I first created my blog I used it to do
lots of research on different types of music videos, digipaks and
magazine adverts. Then my blogger was used to post all my
planning for example my storyboard, equipment list, shooting
schedule, props etc. I have also used to blog as a diary by
updating it with meeting minutes keeping my blog up to date
with posts and actions leading to the final music production.

3. For the construction and research of my project I used different types of
media technologies some of which include YouTube. I used YouTube a lot
as shown below. Mainly to post music videos onto my blog and research
on them. also using examples of other A2 music video productions. I
used SlideShare as well as posting YouTube videos to post PowerPoint
and Word documents onto my blog. I would do this by using an embed
code.

4. For the planning of our music video we used other forms of media technologies
that we used were Scribd, Slideshare, YouTube, Photoshop, Final cut express,
GoAnimate, a Sony HD video camera and DSLR camera.
When creating our music video we used a top quality Sony HD video camera to
video all the scenes of the music video. As a result of using this camera our
scenes came out very nicely. There were no scenes that were too dark, the
music video looked more professional instead. When creating our Digipak and
Magazine advert we used a DSLR camera to take the appropriate pictures that
were needed. With the fact that this camera was top quality the pictures came
out really good. Meaning that when we moved onto editing the pictures on
Photoshop there was no need for airbrushing just adding some little touches.
The camera saved us a lot of time. When we moved on to editing our scenes
we used Final cut Express. We used this program to cut scenes and put them
together and also use all sorts of effects such as dissolving and fast cutting put
it together.

5. I used different ways of uploading my work on my blog. Different websites
such as GoAnimate. GoAnimate I used to create a animation. I found this very
useful as it enabled me to present my work in another fun and interesting way.
In the animation i created it discussed what they thought of our music video.
Instead of writing that i had practised lip syncing. I also used YouTube to create
lip syncing videos to make it look a little more creative.

6. In the evaluation process, again used a different variety
of media technologies to get feedback from our target
audience. I used YouTube to upload my video of
feedback from our class members when we interviewed
them on what they thought from of our music video. I
also used other sources such as Facebook and
blackberry messenger. I uploaded our video on
Facebook so it was visible to my friends and family and
I sent a broadcast message on my blackberry device. I
used social networking sites mainly because I felt that it
would increase the amounts of feedback we receive
since in today’s society everyone has access to social
networking sites.