Question 4- How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

We were constantly using new technologies throughout the development of our music video.

Facebook/Twitter
We used social media throughout the production of the music video, we would use social media to arrange times to meet at locations for filming etc. Instant messaging we used a large part of the time, especially when we were arranging the bouncer shots, we had to arrange who was being picked up etc. We also used this technology to say whether anything came up and say whether or not we could make it to a meeting or to a lesson.

YouTube
We used this technology to research professional music videos and other media coursework as examples to help us create and develop a concept for our music video, e.g. cutting rates, generic conventions etc.

Blogger
We have a blog to keep a dairy on the development of our music video. We looked at other students blogs to help us create a template for our blog. Overall Blogger worked very well, however it wasn't the most user friendly program  in the world, for example, putting images on your blog posts was just infuriating as they wouldn't move where you wanted them to.

Blogger did prove to be useful, obviously providing evidence to our music video to show our roles within the group. We also used our blogs to receive feedback on any work we have done from our friends and tutor. The album cover for example. We posted the drafts, and received feedback on how it can be improved significantly. As you can see you see from our first draft to the final draft, there has been a huge change on how it looks. As you can see, we added colour to the final draft by using colour pass

1st draft

final draft