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

Blogger: Used for presenting all coursework and showing progression of product construction. Internet Explorer (AND Safari): Used for going onto google and other websites for information and images on digipaks, magazine adverts, and music videos. Also used to look at exemplar media blogs. Microsoft Word: For creating tables for scheduling. Microsoft Excel: For creating Gantt chart. Itunes: To listen "Just A Day". Lyrics.com: For lyrics embedment codes Wikipedia: Specifically to find information on Feeder's labels and discography Youtube: For research on music videos and embedment codes. Scanner: To scan in magazine poster examples, sketches on styling, and class notes. Paint: To annotate and create images such as the one above.

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Scanner: To scan in the drawing used for the green screen background

Camera: To take photos for digipak front and back cover.

Photoshop: For creating the magazine advert and digipak.

iMovie: For uploading, editing, and exporting music video.

Camcorder: (Moby) For filming the footage we needed.

Garage band: For splitting the Just A Day audio.

Audacity: Same as above, however not used on final music video.

Itunes: For listening, and downloading the track.

Apple Mac: To use for apple software, and blogging during class time.

Da Fonts.com: Used for a quick and easy access to a variety of fonts. This helped make our product look more conventional to real products, which also fonts that may not necessarily be found on Microsoft word and therefore more individual in its packaging/presentation.

There were many limitations whilst using these technologies, as some like photo shop had the habit to shut down during our work (thankfully Jack and Jemma saved!). I also discovered from using the variety of technologies mentioned above that there are different types of soft wares that do the same job, but may work better than another. The new iMovie was much more user friendly than the last, and easier to locate functions when compared to Final Cut. Another example was Audacity against Garage Band, both had the capability to do what we wanted however Garage Band was much more accessible and a better software in terms of speed and set up. Over all, our music video and subsidiary tasks could not have been completed with out these technologies, which also helped to improve our skills when compared to last year's course work.