EVALUATION QUESTION FOUR:

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

For construction of planning, it mainly came down to the use of the internet to research our chosen genre of music. The internet browser was Internet Explorer and we used such websites as Google, Wikipedia, Youtube and Blogger to research the chosen genre, and upload it to an available place where it may be publically viewed. However, to add things such as the story boards to the blog, the use of a scanner was required in order to get it onto the compurter, and ultimately onto my group and I's blogs.

For the construction of the music video itself, there were more technologies that needed to be used in order to get our final product (The sticks 'n' stones music video) up to the group's standards. For the filming, we used a Sony Digital Camera and filmed everything shot by shot. We also used a group member's camera in order to take the pictures for our advertisment and digi-pak. This was the easy part, but the real challenge came in the editing. For the music video, we used a program called "Adobe Premiere", which was used on our group member's MacBook. The editing of the photos was also done on both the MacBook and one of the college Dell PCs.

For the editing of the photos, we needed to use adobe photoshop, and even at some points we experimented with filters usuing online websites that had photo editing capability. An example of this would be Picnik.

As for the evalutation, some members of the group meant for the evaluation to be uploaded as a Microsoft PowerPoint Presentation. I however decided to type everything up on word, as to asure my spelling and punctuation were correct and uploaded them straight to my blog.

In a conclustion, these new media technologies were very esential for the creating, prodcuing and even presenting our product. All in all, it was a very fun experiance.