Websites Used

Blogger

Blogger is probably the media technology which I have used the most often throughout the entire process. I have used it to record my initial research into music videos, my planning, the development of my production and my evaluation. I found it easy to use as I was previously familiar blogger, and I think that it is a really good way to visually record ideas. I could also easily go back and find work from months before and refer to it later.

Facebook

I used Facebook in my production stage to ask for advice in producing the back cover of my digipak. I also used it in the evaluation process to gather audience feedback. I think it is a really easy way to contact people, and found that group messages were really good for communicating to a large number of people. Furthermore people usually replied really quickly, as most of the people I talked to are usually with a smartphone, laptop or tablet.

PicMonkey

This site has been fantastic throughout the entire process for simple photo editing. It has simple tools such as crop, collage and brightness adjustments. I used it most often if I had taken a screenshot and needed to crop this down to post onto my blog. I addition most of the collages on my blogs have been created on PicMonkey.

YouTube

I used YouTube the most during the research stage of pre-production as I was analysing other videos to learn more about conventions. YouTube made this really easy as I could search for a specific video or simply browse. I continued to watch videos on YouTube for inspiration, especially since new videos are added constantly. I also uploaded my music video to YouTube as a way of presenting the final product.

Google

Google was the main search engine I used throughout the process. This mostly involved searching Google Images for example of digipaks and magazine adverts in order to analyse them. When searching for images I tried to keep on the large size tool in order to find the highest quality images. I found google really helpful, however if I struggled to find images I sometimes visited Tumblr or WeHeartIt as they often feature very aesthetically pleasing pictures.