Q4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages

I used blogger throughout the planning and research stage to ensure everything was up to date and everything was already organised such as costumes plan of shot etc. This helped ensure when it came to the shoot day we were all sorted and organised.

Also throughout the research and planning stage of the promotional video we used youtube.com to ascertain information into the indie genre which gave us information on typical conventions of indie promotional videos and what the audience would usually expect to see in an indie promo. Looking on youtube.com we were able to see what past students had created and see what sort of production we would have to generate too get what grades this helped to see what we had to include in the promotional video. I also found youtube.com to be a great source for audience feedback as it gave a true representation of what people thought of the promotional video not just family and friends. 

From the beginning of A2 I believe Filming skills have increase as I know look more in detail in what the shot is capturing and whether not the shot it well lit as my composition of shot has improved. These developed skills developed during the process of creating the promo as we had to use lots of shot types and pans to entice the audience and get the best possible Promotional video I could. Also during the construction of the promotional video I became more familiar with I movie and Photoshop whilst creating the ancillary tasks becoming really familiar with these technologies allowed us to put a real professional look on promotional video as we were able to play with the footage and make it more clear as we had problems with lighting which aided in developing a successful pop promo. I movie really helped with our music as there were many ways we could overcome our problems such as with the lip syncing we were able to speed up and slow ith down and use precision editor to get them synced up as best we could this played a major part in the outcome of our production.

We looked and Facebook as form to achieve audience research and feedback as it’s a good way to ascertain information quickly and it gets a wide set of results of our target audience. Facebook also helped in the creation of our production  as we were able to contact the 99s on their fan page to ascertain lyrics and permission and information about the band which also had videos of the band performing live at gig so we were able to see what look they went for etc.