How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluate stages? (Ancillary Task)

Research- When researching different CD covers and Posters I used the Internet to find different CD Covers and then I used Microsoft Word to annotate them and take ideas from them. By doing this I had a visual document of things that I wanted in my music video. I used websites such as HMV and Allcdcovers.com in order to see the CD covers. For the Poster I looked music magazines and posters that could be found on the Internet I also looked at the flyer's and tour posters that had been put up in Brighton and in Plymouth when I was there. For both I looked at bands website pages and their Facebook pages, by doing this I got feel for how bands advertised themselves and how I could use this knowledge when advertising my band.

Planning- The image below is of myself and Shelby planning what our ancillary tasks were going to look like, for this we used paper and pencil. For most of the planning of our ancillary tasks we used pencil and paper. I used a scanner to scan my designs into the computer to upload them onto blogger so that I always had my original designs for me to refer back to if needed. For planning I mainly used Blogger to hold all of my notes and ideas for the Ancillary tasks.

Construction-

When constructing my ancillary tasks I used DaFont, in order to find myself the perfect font for the band name and the album name. Once I had found these fonts i realised that i could use the font Smile (that was my band name font) as a brand for the band. I decided that this would be the font that the Band name was going to be written in at all times. Also when constructing I used Photoshop this made it easier in creating the digipack and the poster as it had all the tools that I needed. However at first I found it very difficult to use as it was a bit confusing however after a tutorial I was able to use the programme freely to produce the work that I did.

Evaluation-

When evaluating my final products I used Facebook to upload the images and ask people for their opinions. I also used a still camera to show my target audience looking at the final products and telling me what they thought about my ancillary task.