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

2. Usage of New Media Technologies in
the Construction Stage

3. I Movie
I Movie was used to edit the music video. I Movie was very easy to
manipulate. Video tutorials on operating I Movie were on YouTube
and they became extremely helpful when initially learning to use it.
Compared to more advanced and professional video editing
software such as Avid, Final Cut and Adobe Premiere, I Movie had
the least amount of visual effects and transitions. Also a more
professional look would have given to our final video if we’ve used a
more advanced video editing software.

4. Adobe Photoshop CS3

5. Adobe Photoshop was mainly used to
create the digipack and the advertisement. It
enabled us to create a professional digipack
and an advertisement. Video tutorials
available on the internet assisted us a lot to
learn the software. There are two main
implications of using Photoshop. It takes a
lot of time for a starter to get used to use
Photoshop and to use all its tools and
effects . Also its an expensive software.

6. Digital Camera
The camcorder was used to film the music video. It
was very easy to operate. It had rewind and playback
properties which became extremely useful. Also it was
portable and light weighted. The main limitation was
that the output video quality of the given camcorder
was very low. This affected the picture quality of our
music video.

7. Usage of New Media Technologies In
the Research, Planning and Evaluation

8. YouTube became a highly useful media technology during all the
stages. Research, planning and during the evaluation. It was used to
upload all forms of moving images including the main music video and
the audience research onto the internet. YouTube acts as a bridge
between us, the producers of music video and the audience as it
enables the audience to watch it online anytime. Also It enabled us to
share the video with the members of the audience and receive their
feedbacks. It was also used to research similar music videos of hip hop
genre. One limitation of YouTube is that it consumes a lot of time when
uploading videos onto YouTube. Another limitation is that it takes time
to load YouTube videos on computers connected to slow or busy
internet connections.

9. Google is a search engine which was used
throughout the research process. It was
used to find images, videos and similar
texts.
Prezi was used to create presentations
online. It was mainly used to create the
presentations of some evaluation
questions and similar artist case studies.
Its user friendly interface enabled me to
learn it easily. It provides exactly 500
MB of internet memory capacity for a
student user. Therefore a presentations
of greater file sizes, for example once
that contain a lot of video clips and
images could be created.

10. Jing was used to create screencasts of some of my evaluation
questions. It enabled me to create presentations with voice
narrations. Jing was easy to learn and to manipulate as it had a
very user friendly interface. The only limitation of Jing was that it
allows to create screencasts that worth only five minutes. But
purchasing Jing Pro enables to create screencasts longer than
that.

11. Blogger was the main media technology used
for this piece of coursework as it provides all
forms of evidence of my research work and final
media products. Blogger was used to post all
forms of research work and to upload videos
including the final music video in an orderly
manner. Blogger provides a lot of internet
space free of charge and without any limitation
so I was able to upload all my work related to
coursework even without considering the file
sizes of them.
Facebook was used to receive an
audience feedback. Our music video
was posted on Facebook so people had
the ability of providing feedbacks. They
just had to post their comments or
feedbacks underneath the video.