Technologies Where? Why?

Successful/Unsuc
Used cessful?

Research and Pre-

Production

Blogger To create a blog To create our blogs Successful as easy

which would hold to use and keeps
all of our all my work in one
coursework place

YouTube The research I used this to look Successful as it

section of our at other music helped me get
coursework to look videos of different ideas for my music
at different types of genres, in order to videos & helped
music videos understand the me see how
conventions. different genres
were filmed
MySpace To find unsigned To contact them via Unsuccessful – as
artists/bands for my email or phone to I the bands/artist I
music video could ask did find and
permission to use emailed, didn’t
their song reply in enough
time
 Technologies Used Where? Why? Successful/Unsucc
essful?

Research and Pre-

Production

Ms PowerPoint During my initial To present my initial Successful as

pitch, throughout my pitch to the class in a everything was
research section & simplified way , set clearly set out and
for tasks such as out well. this software is
analysing ideas and simple to use.
collecting ideas
( photos)
Glogger Used to Brain storm We used this to Successful as this
ideas combine all the was one place where
groups ideas of fonts, all our initial ideas
colours, similar texts were kept, so it
etc wasn’t in lots of
different places.
Blackberry Filming Days To document our Successful
time out filming

Ms Word Job role allocation To create a table for Successful, as easy

Research tasks our group allocating to set out and read
job roles
 Technologies Uses Where? Why? Successful/Unsucc
essful?

Research and Pre-

Production

Survey monkey To conduct audience This would help us Successful – Gained

research before we tell our ideas in a effective feedback
started to create out form of a
music video questionnaire and
then it will tell us
whether these ideas
appeal to the
audience and what
they would like to
see.
Flip Camera Used for Feedback To film all of our Successful as both
and Pitch task pitches during pre- were filmed well
production & to film
our audience
feedback at the end

Blogger Upload Videos We used this Successful, videos

software to upload uploaded and played
our audience well
research on ideas
 Technologies Used Where? Why? Successful/Unsucc
essful?

Pre-Production

Ms Word To do Treatment & We wrote up our Successful – As the

Call sheets treatment explaining call sheets allowed
what we were going us to see when we
to do & how we see were filming and
the music video what exactly we were
looking filming during the
Also to write up our time
daily filming call
sheets
Ms PowerPoint To plan the We drew up our Successful – as we
Magazine advert and designs and then put could annotate and
DVD cover them onto see what changes
PowerPoint so we needed to be made
could annotate them

Ms Excel Used to create a shot Created a detailed This was successful

list shot list, containing, as it helped us be
lyrics, locations, very organised &
duration, actors, know exactly what
equipment etc we were doing
 Technologies Used Where? When? Successful/Unsucc
essful?

Pre-Production

Scribd Upload treatment, Bu uploading to Very Successful &

call sheets & Scribd it allows out easy to navigate
magazine advert & teachers to download
DVD cover and view our work
presentation/designs

Production

Panasonic GS23O In the Music video To record all the Successful – all
Camcorder shots shots were
successfully taken,
some had to be
retaken though
Tripod Music Video To capture straight Successful – As the
shots majority of the shots
were straight

Red light kit & gels Music video for To get the lighting on Successful –
studio scene and the actors correct Although at time we
piano scene whilst filming had to move the
head lights around to
capture the perfect
angle
Green screen (black) Studio To get a studio Successful – as it
location for some of made the shots looks
the scenes ( some professional
performance
elements)

Sony dslr-a230 Part of the Digi pack Took pictures of the Successful – camera
camera and magazine artist for the was quite simple to
advertisement Magazine advert and use after testing it out
Digi-Pack a few times and
Also took pictures to using different effects
show different
technologies we
were using and the
effects
Photoshop To design and create To use all the effects Successful – At first
the final Magazine and tools to this software was
advert and DVD successfully create difficult to use, then
cover professional looking after a while of using
ancillary products it, it became quite
simple.
 Technologies Used Where? Why? Successful/Unsucc
essful?

Post- Production

Apple Mac Editing To connect the Successful

camera into the Mac
to use all the software
available

Final Cut Express Editing To upload all the Successful

shots, edit the shots,
cut them in places
needed and to add
effects.

Webcam Part 4 of my To record my talking Successful

evaluation
Blogger Part 4 of evaluation To upload my talking Successfully
head video uploaded fine

Ms PowerPoint Part 5 of evaluation To set out a table Successful

with all the
technologies I have
used

Ms PowerPoint & Ms Part 3 of Evaluation To present my ideas Successful

Word for all three of my
products

Microphone Part 2 of evaluation To record then voice Successful

under for part 2