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

During our product we had to use media technologys in order to track our progress and improve the standards of work that we were producing. in order to achieve this we used teh internet in many ways to help us plan for our project. we used seach engines such as 'youtube' CLICK HERE to help us to look for video that we were then able to analyse and help to construct ideas for what our video wanted to look like. The Internet also came in very handy and it allowed us to research more information about the band (The Saturdays) in a lot more detail using sites such as 'Google.com' click here in our researching stage. by going on websites such as this we were able to get a clera idea on what the genres for the pop video culture intail. we were able to do research into image and sound and video style in order to help us construct a video that was true to the genre.
We found what bands in the pop genre and other girl bands bring across to their target audience, such as using bright colours to stand out but feminine revealing images to bring across a seductive female image. aswell as this we found that they dressed pervogativly and it jelped us constrct make up styles and dress ideas.
During the constrcution on the music video and ancilary tasks we used Photoshop and the editing software was a main resource. Photoshop allowed us to edit and improve the layout of our images. It allowed us to adjust the brightness, contract, size and position of our images to make them look more professional and fit with our genre design.


















To create our CD cover and magazine advertisement it allowed us to add in text, change font styles and colours and adjust the size of the font in order for it to follow the codes and conventions of existing CD covers and magazine advertisements. As well as this we were able to add in images to see what worked best in the picture that was being constructed.
We found that using photoshop was a very effective way to make and change our images.

During the construction of our music video we used editing software which allowed us to add in special effects to our music video such as slow motion and faded effects. The editing software also allowed us to improve the continuity of our video and create a smooth flowing video when cutting from shot to shot. The importance of this was to make sure that our video looked professional and stuck to the conventions of the genre, which included snappy shots and continuity editing.
We also used Social networking sites such as 'Facebook.com' OUR FACEBOOK PAGE to help promote our video and get feeback from the audience to see what they think and what they think we could improve. it was therefore, useful during the evaluation stage of our practical because it allowed us to gain audience feedback about both our main practical and anciliary tasks.