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

I filmed my music video on a Nikon DSLR, which wasn't a camera I had specifically used before, but I have used some like it. I found it easy to use with the experience I've had with other cameras, although making sure I got the shot fully in focus was my main concern. 

When it came to my ancillary text, I used the camera to take a few photos of the actors for use on the digipak, but in the end I only used one of those photos. I couldn't find any others that I felt fit well with the digipak and decided to take screenshots from my music video instead and edit them so they looked like different images. 

I used Photoshop for all editing of photos and screenshots as I'm very familiar with the program and find it easiest to use. 

      For the front cover of my digipak, I used Photoshop to make the image. I took one of the photos I had taken and then selected the people in the image and turned them around. I used a few different layers to get the effect and made some of the layers transparent.

I used Blogger as a place to show all my ideas and developments in research and planning of my music video and later on to post to final products. I found the site easy and simple to use as I had experience using it at AS level. It was also a helpful place for me to note down the things I still needed to do before I could move onto the next task. 

      I also used Adobe Premiere 13 for editing my video. At first I struggled with learning how to use the program as I haven't got a lot of experience when it comes to editing footage; however, I found that by changing the settings on the program I found a much easier and detailed way for me to edit my footage how I wanted. I continued to run into the problem of the audio footage moving around or getting deleted, but was able to fix it by putting my videos on a different row and replacing missing audio. I feel much more comfortable with the idea of editing now and I have found it has helped my skills develop in this area.

YouTube and Vimeo were both helpful in the researching area for my music video as it allowed me to note down the conventions of professionally made music video and helped me to come up with ideas for my own. I found that YouTube offered a wider range of videos for me to watch and even gave me an insight into the music videos made by other students my age.