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

2. Research… The main website I used was
Google to get the research that I
needed to create our music video
and Ancillary Tasks. This is the
most popular and reliable search
engine that I always use, so for this
it was no different. I used this to
find out information about music
videos- for example different types
of transitions, and then also to get
The other programme I used for
images of bands, albums and
my research was Youtube. This
artists for research into digipaks
was very useful for researching
and magazine adverts.
into music videos, as you can view
them, pause them and play them
back as often as you like. This was
very beneficial when looking at
different music videos to see what
types of transitions, colours, mise-
en-scene and storylines that they
use.

3. Making The Music Video…
To create our music video, we used the Canon fs406 camera, which
allowed us too not only film our music video , but to also take
photographs of what we are doing. It was not the best quality, but it
was small and very easy to use and in the end did give us a solid
music video. Along with this we had the tripod, which was
compatible with the camera and was very valuable when we
needed to film for 5 minutes straight and when we needed to stop
the camera from moving when filming.

4. Ancillary Tasks…
The main piece of technology we used to
construct our ancillary tasks was the Canon
EOS 7D camera, which was provided to us
by Sarah’s Dad. We decided to use this
camera for our photo shoots, as it provided
a very professional, clear and unpixelated
image. When using this camera I learnt
how to adjust different settings, such as
the: exposure time, sensitivity ISO and the
flash settings. Changing the flash settings
was quite complicated, as there was a
different piece of equipment you attached
to the top of the camera which could be
used from different angles along with the
camera flash to prevent shadowing on the
model. To go along with this in the
photoshoot, we had two large lights
provided by our school, which guaranteed
that the model would be clear in the
photos, and that the amount of editing we
would have to do was minimal.

5. Ancillary Tasks Continued…
To construct the Ancillary Tasks, me and my
group used photoshop, as we were very
familiar with this programme from AS
Media, so it meant we would know what
tools to use and how to use them. Both the
Digipak and the Magazine Advert was
created using this software, as we could
insert and also edit the images, then add
additional things to this, such as
text, barcodes and certain icons like “Vevo.”
One of the problems we had with this
programme was the “Layers” as we
struggled to ensure that everything was
individual, so that if we needed to change or
delete it, it would not affect any other
aspects of the product. We had to make sure
every time we inserted something new, we
made it into its own layer, which proved
quite time consuming.

6. Editing the Film…
To edit our film together, we had to use the
programme that was provided by our
school- which happened to be Adobe
Premiere Elements. This programme
allowed us too insert the clips we
needed, with the song we had chosen- then
edit, cut and add transitions to make it
appear like a music video. It was a good
programme to use, as it made is easy for us
to cut our clips up into tiny sections
repeatedly and put them all in a different
order- which we had to do regularly to get
clips that went along with the beat of the
music.

7. Presenting Coursework…
The most important programme for presenting my coursework was blogger. This is the
programme we had to use for AS and A2 to show all the processes we went through to
create our products. On here we presented our research, ideas, construction and final
products. However, to make my blog more interesting and attractive I used additional
programmes to present my coursework and then put them on blogger.
Slideshare is probably the most frequent additionally programme I used to present my
coursework and evaluation. This allowed me to create PowerPoint presentations or Word
Documents and then put them on my blog. All Slideshare does is convert the PowerPoint file
so that it can go on your blog in a quick and easy way, so this was very useful.
I also used Microsoft Word and PowerPoint to create my work and
put on Slideshare or blogger.
Three other programmes I used for blogging and evaluation were:
• Picasion: This website is used to put a variety of images together, so that it
becomes an animation. Instead of having loads of photos underneath each
other, they all appear in the same place, which made my blog more
interesting and less busy.
• Prezi: This was another website I found which allows you to make a
different type of presentation, which has an alternative layout and is also
interactive so you can move around it.
• Glogster: The next programme I used to present my coursework was
Glogster. On here I could create posters, pinboards of videos that were
interactive. It provided different images and text to make it more interesting
and creative.

8. Presenting Coursework
Continued…
The last programme I used to present coursework, was the website www.bubbl.us
which is a website which allows you to brainstorm and make mind maps. I used
this website once to create a mind map of idea about the genre indie/rock. It gave
me an additional way to present my information, so that I did not have to write
everything out again, which can get quite tedious.