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

To film my music video I used a Nikon DSLR. As I had never used a professional camera before this was very challenging but through the help of internet forums and YouTube tutorials I figured out how to record my shots to a high standard.
I also used the camera to take my ancillary text photographs. For this I had to be able to manually focus the lens (there were so many things in the shot the camera could not do it automatically) to give a clear and professional looking picture.
The camera allowed me to do all of this to a very high standard and I am very pleased with the outcome of my photography and videos.





I have used blogger throughout this module in order to post about all of the stages of creating my music video and ancillary texts. It has also helped me to share and gather ideas with my peers.





I used Adobe Premiere 13 throughout the construction of my music video. The programme allowed me to cut and arrange my clips, add music, filters and special effects.
The most noticeable effect that I used in my music video was slow motion. Using premiere allowed me to do this very easily, all you had to do select the clip you wanted then click on 'time remapping', select what speed you wanted the clip to go, in my case 'slow' then drag the bar along in order for the effect to carry on throughout the clip.
There were also some effects I used in Premiere that did not make it to the final cut of my music video, for example, I tried using the time mapping tool to speed up some of my clip but as most of these clips were of the main actress either walking or running the pace made the lip look unnatural and obviously tampered with. I also tried using a filter on some of my clips to make them flash red, to emphasise the characters guilt, but decided this didn't really fit in with the indie genre and made the video look tacky. 

I used Photoshop, Fireworks and InDesign to create different elements of my digipak.
-I used Photoshop to edit my photography for my digipak. As the DSLR took very professional looking photos I didn't need to do much to the photos but I did crop them to the correct sizes and brighten the images slightly, especially the red frame, in order to give them a more eye-catching look.
-I used Fireworks to create the logo for my band. This consisted of choosing the right font, colouring it and making the background transparent so it could be transferred to my Didigpak and advert without a white border.
-I use InDesign to bring all of the products made from these programmes to create my digipak and advert.

I used Vimeo throughout the planning stages of this module in order to gather ideas about different music videos such as, their narrative, pace and mise-en scene. This helped me when planning my music video because I knew the conventions of real texts so I could make mine look and feel as real as possible.


I also used YouTube in my planning stages to research music video but as well as this I used YouTube to upload my video in order for it to be viewed on my blog.





I have also learnt how to make gifs during the evaluation stages of this project. In order to do this I used a website called 'makeagif.com'. To make the gifs I had to go to the website, copy the link for my music video from YouTube, decide where I wanted the gif to start and how long I wanted it to last. It was a very simple thing to do but makes my evaluation blog look much more interesting.