Evaluation Question 4 DRAFT

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

Pre-Production:

• Safari- our main source of technology to access websites such as...
• Blogger- updating regular posts of to-do lists, inspiration and general updates which we consistently referred back to. we had a group blog, with each member being an author, in order for each posts to be separate. 
• Google- to accumulate images, information of bands/artists
• Email Accounts- Gmail (group email), Outlook (personal email). This allowed us to email work to each other, and to contact our location and 'MediaDog' critic. 
• Twitter Account- _INFLUXXmusic, we could communicate with the target audience, streaming recent tweets of the planning to build anticipation. We included pictures of the band members and teasers. We also followed similar artists to INFLUXX for a more realistic approach. 
• Scribd- at this current stage of production, our coursework hand-in dates were shown on here, making it easier to plan ahead in an efficient way. 
• Flickr- used to upload pictures of the band, with links on our blog so our audience could view them in a presentable and professional way.
• Apple Macs- used to make everything happen
• Tube Chops- used for Au Revoir Simone's video 'Somebody Who', to separate the scenes we were inspired by. It was easier to view as they were set at specific timings in the video, it saved us a lot of time, resulting in us not having to watch through their entire music video. 
• iPhone- was used to update tweets, and blog posts on the blogger app.
• Animoto- here we presented our 25 word pitch to our class, it included the style of music production, target audience and relevant key words that were related to the genre in a particular way. 
• Tumblr- similar to google images, we picked out many images of people we think the target audience would look like. It also helped in the styling of our artists at a later date. 
• Gigposters.com- I used this website to gain ideas and inspiration for my own magazine advert/poster. Many arty and conceptual designs were featured on here, which encouraged me to continue with the idea of creating a unique print. 

Production:

• Filming camera- we used the Sony HDV HDR-FX1E filming camera, it was very large, and proved to result in a high quality and professional looking music video. 
• Lighting- four artificial lights were used, two of which were my own creating the basic light seen in the music video. The other two were property of the school, they were soft boxes and created the main brightness and cancelled out any of the shadows and other unwanted darkness. 
• iPhone- as the other girls in my group were filming and in charge of music, I filmed 'behind the scenes' footage, and took pictures which I then posted on Instagram and Twitter. We also used our phones to play the music on the speakers in order for Ellie to lip-sync. 

Post-Production: 

• Final Cut Pro X- This was extremely useful and an easy editing software to edit our music video on. Each group member edited one minute of the video, whilst we completed our ancillary texts and other media studies related work. 
• Blogger- Here we posted links to the music video and to-do lists, feedback was also posted on here. 
• YouTube- We uploaded out draft and final version of our music video here. 
• FireWire cable- As the video camera was a few years old, it only carried tape. Therefore we had to get access to a firewire cable which imports the video onto final cut pro.