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

Throughout the whole project we used blogger to show our progress through the researching, planning, making and evaluating stages of the project. It was a good way of presenting all our work because we could design the blog how we wanted and make it our own. It also made your work look very neat and in order and was very easy to use. The only problem with the blog was that the dates were tracked so you had to keep up to date with it all which was hard to keep up with as you get sidetracked with making the project and forget about the blog,

meaning that you ended up with massive date gaps between each post.

We also used iMovieHD, which is the programme we used to edit our film and turn it into a music video. At first we tried to use final cut pro but struggled using it, so found iMovieHD and found it a lot easier to use. We liked iMovieHD because it allowed you to use effects and transition and all the options were simply placed which made it easier to work with and get the rasp of over a programme like final cut pro. We liked how the programme allowed you to be quite free with the editing, but there was a limited amount of effects, audio effects and transitions so we had to make do with the ones they had, which I think limited us in making the music video better, but all in all it was a very easy and useful programme.

When creating the CD cover and tour poster we used photoshop as it allows you to create unique designs easily. I found it really easy to create the digipack because after looking at other peoples tour poster and CD cover you are able to see that they don't have to be anything artistically spectacular, so I was able to make a simple CD cover and tour poster, without it looking bad. It also allowed me to use the same themes with both the CD cover and tour poster because I was able to easily copy over the same text fonts and photos so they looked similar. The only problem I had with making the the digipack whas that I had to use text from word, as I didn't find any of the fonts on photoshop appealing, but that wasn't a massive deal.

Through the research stages of the coursework we used youtube to look at different types of music video and analyse them. It was very helpful because it was easy acsses to a bunch of music videos and allowed you to look into many genres of music video. The only problem with youtube is that sometimes you are ristricted from watching certain music videos because of the country settings or copyright infringements, which limited us a bit. We were also not able to watch all of Jonnahan Glazer's Mirroball episode becaus youtube had blockd certain parts of it. 

For CD cover and tour poster analysis we had to use Google to look for them different CD cover and tour poster that are already around . it was versy useful and as there were many options you could look for all different types and genre's of CD cover. This piece of technology had no restrictions at all really, the only problem was that they may not have had the specific picture you were looking for, but overall we found everything we needed.