We used many different media technologies during the preparation and construction of our media products...
• The internet – we researched existing media products and production companies using the internet.
• MySpace – we used this social networking site to send a message to Lady Gaga to ask whether we could use her song for our music video.
• Facebook – here, we looked at photographs of friends to decide who would be suitable for our project to act as our starring artist. Here we found Grace, who is Patrick’s friend, and believed she was perfect for the role.
• YouTube – this was our main source for inspiration and ideas. We also used this website to upload our music video onto the internet in order to gain some audience feedback.
• Blogger – we used this to record our progress throughout the production process.
• Adobe Photoshop CS4 – here we produced the poster and digipak.
• Adobe Premiere Pro – this is where we edited and put together the music video.
• Film studio - this is where a lot of our filming for our music video took place. We took full advantage of the equiptment there, for example, the spot light, camera stands, props, coloured lights (although we decided against this later on), and flash lights for when we were taking photographs. These enabled to produce high quality, proffessional photographs and video footage.
• Digital camera - this is the camera we used to take high quality photographs for our ancilliary texts.
• Video camera - this is the camera we used to capture video footage for our music video. We were able to place the camera on a stand to make sure that the camera didn't wobble whist filming. We were also able to watch what we had captured by playing the video back from the camera itself... this enabled us to make sure that the footage we had captured was going to be useful for us.
