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

In this project we have used a number of pieces of new technology that have made our work a lot easier. I have taken some screenshots and explained what each one is and why it has helped in my work.

This is a picture of Mike working, as i have labelled the various technologies we used to create our video.

This is a screengrab of YouTube, the site we use to upload most of our videos to. This allows our videos to be seen by a much wider audience than if the technology was unavailable and wee had to physically show people tapes.

This is Hotmail, we used this to communicate with the band to organise shooting and times and things. This made our project slightly easier as it is easier to send an e-mail than phone people, as they can respond whenever they want and they don't have to be available at the same time.

This is Google Images, we used this to get ideas for our Digipacks.

This is Final Cut. We use this programme to do all of our editing, as it is easy. This has changed a lot recently, as if this technology wasn't available, we might have to be physically cutting bits of VHS tape and sticking it back together in order to cut out bits of footage, whereas now we can just cut it and move it along the different timelines.

This is the Creative Commons Search. I used this to find images that i could use for my digipack. Any images found on a creative commons search can be used for other purposes, without fear of breaching copyright laws as you do by taking images for google images.

This is Facebook, we used this to tell everyone to watch our video and get some feedback. It is much easier to send everyone a link on here than to ask people individually to watch it. It is a social networking site so you can tell all your friends about something all at once.

This is Blogger, the website we use to keep all our work and keep tack of what we are doing.

This is Photoshop, i used this programme to create my digipack. This was much easier because it meant i didn't have to do anything by hand, as i can't draw very well.