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

Using media technologies I first of all used Photo editing software, called Adobe Photoshop to edit and create my photos for my digipak. I first of all up loaded a photo of my artist smoking outside, that I had taken from a photo shoot with our model who is pretending to be the artist for our video. I then enlarged the photo and converted the photo to black and white, adding a grain texture to the photo to make it look more vintage and follow the conventions of the the artist the Weeknd. I then cropped the photo, removing half of the models face to add to one of the Weeknds conventions of being Mysterious .

Here is the finished Manipulation and the first type of technology that i used in order to construct my media Text.

To research and plan our Music video we took part in a Brainstorm in which our progress and thought's were recorded on a piece of paper, whilst being recorded by a video camera. to create our music video we had to make sure we went in correctly tooled and no no a wasting time process. We created three storyboards, containing the sequence in which our music video would be filmed. we included shot tittle's and what was going to occur during the filming of that scene. we also took photos of settings and the places that we would be filming in. this was so that is was so the Mise-En-Scene me and my group were trying to create was clearly visible. We also took part in some radial analysis's to research what was already out there.

Here is the brainstorm done in school.

To complete the evaluation of our created media texts we used Web 2.0. we used a mix up of Social networking websites such as Youtube, Facebook & Twitter. These social networking websites were used to share our texts and receive Constructive criticism from people who view our video. We used the website Blogger to show evidence of our work and progress. This was a self created blog with our own input's of what we thought and found out. This was so that we could shows our progress as we designed or processed different media texts.

When using media technologies we varied in the type of media we used we went from Web 2.0 to radial analysis's of different media texts related to our genre. These media technologies were very useful because they applied to our target audience. They helped us reach ur target audience as when it comes to Graham Burton's Uses & Gratifications theory theses are the main means and modes of Social Interaction.