How did you use media technologies in the research stage?

Throughout the Researching stage. A lot of Youtube research was conducted.

This was used, in order to watch and analyse the different types of music videos in order to gain an understanding and appreciation of how they are created. Low budget videos, Rock videos, Pop videos and Hip-Hop videos were just some of what we viewed on Youtube. We done this to get some ideas from different genres and budgets to help with how we wanted to present our videos.

AllCDCovers.com was also used a lot in order to obtain the CD covers of artists and groups that I had studied to get some inspiration and influences into what I may like to do with my Digipack.

Wikipedia was also used to gain some background knowledge about the record labels from the genre of our choice. This was informational and also helpful to us, because it then gave us a foundation to choose what type of look we wanted our artists to be represented under.

I also used picsearch in order to find pictures of artists or logos to add visual imagery to my research.

Microsoft Word and Excel were also both used during the research stage. I used these media technologies to create an audience research table, presented with different types of graphs to show how my audience reacted to the questions that I put to them. This was very handy for me because it gave me my answers in a very slick and clear way without any misleading information going astray.