Q.4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research planning and evaluation sheet?

During the research stage where we looked at a number videos from our chosen genre to try and get an idea of what normally goes into them. the main sources I were Youtbe , as it is free and easy to access, and Kerrang TV as it a devoted TV channel only showing Rock and Metal videos and so was of great use.

I also had an advantage when working on this genre as it is a genre of music i listen to a lot and so had a good choice of bands and other videos to draw inspiration from.

To actually film the music video we used a Sony digital recorder (more than one in some cases). This was better than other recorders as it record onto an SD card rather than a tape. However it seems these recorders do not like loud noises as when we were filming the concert for the live footage the camera i was using kept freezing when i moved closer to the speakers were the music was coming from.



The printing was done by a professional printing company. This made the finished poster and CD cover a much higher quality than it would have been if we had done it ourselves. To edit the images for the print work we used a combination of the programmes Photoshop and In Design on the Apple Mac computer. These programmes were very easy to use and so this cut the time it took to finish the project.

Finally there were a number of bands in particular we sued as inspiration for our video, the main ones we focused on were:
Black Veil Brides
Bullet For My Valentine
Black Stone Cherry