Evaluation Question 4

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

When constructing, researching, planning and evaluating our music video, we used the following new media technologies:

• HD camera
• Monopod
• Tripod
• YouTube
• Final Cut Express
• iMac
• Blogger
• Google

Here is a screen grab from Final Cut Express during our editing process. By using this program, we were able to cut some bits of filming that weren't necessary and by moving parts of our video around. This meant that we did not have to film in the order that it would be shown in the video as we could change it at a later date. We uploaded the footage we filmed from the HD camera onto the program and easily edited. To et our shots looking smooth and professional, we used a tripod and a monopod. All of the editing was carried out on our school's iMac computers.

Google was the main way we conducted our research for our artist and the song we chose. We also used social networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter to spread the word about our video and gather interest in order to receive audience feedback.

Finally, we used YouTube to upload our video to the internet. YouTube is the most popular way to share videos on the internet and we have already gathered plenty of views on our video. This makes our video available to the masses and is the quickest way to gather interest.

All of these forms of media technologies made our music video a success.