How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evalution stage?

Construction:

I used a video camera obviously for filming the music video, however instead of just simply using the camera, i used the zoom in and out functions for effects, the lighting effects that where build on as well as my favourite, the manual focus pull function, this proved to work very well with the shots we planned it for. And also for a specific shot we used a HD camera, the quality proved a lot better and in addition to that I used the slow motion function that would record anything for a second and play it for 8 seconds, this was a very effective function, but very fiddly to use.
For the Digi pack and the poster we used a high quality photography camera as the quality it offered was very good. During filming scene's were the camera was hand held, we used a 'Fig Rig', this is a device that allows the camera user to hold the camera more steadily then with their bare hands, this was very handy for scenes where the camera holder had to follow/walk with the artist's and keep the camera steady.

Finally the school got the green screen so we was able to film with it, this was a very good but difficult to use equipment, first of all we had to get the required space to set it up in, then the space had to be the right size to fit the green screen, technicians had to be booked off, the lighting had to be perfect, camera's booked and finally the artist's. However, once everything was there it all fell into place and the green screen proved very easy to use. Once the green screen clips where uploaded i had to use Final cut to edit the green screen out, i spent many hours using the Green screen filter's and it proved to be good however there was a distinctive green line around our artists, so i tried using the 'Spill suppressor' to get rid of it, but it left the artist's very edgy.
I was stuck, however I then tried to use the 'Chroma Key' function, this worked a lot better then the Green screen filters. However once again there was a green outline so i used all 3 effects, the Green screen filter, Spill suppressor and the Chroma Key. and after playing around with the functions, i was able to find the perfect setting. I was able to copy and paste this setting onto any other clip i wanted, and at first the setting didnt work for all the clips as well as it did for the first clip i took the green screen out on ;but after some time playing around with the attributes again i found the right one for every clip one by one.

When using photoshop I found it alright to use as I had already used it, I just looked over a set of notes i made on how to do certain functions, and just attempted to use new ones. I downloaded several fonts until I found the perfect one (dafont.com), applied glows and effects to the pictures and took the background of the pictures and applied a plain black colour with ease. But the problem I encountered for a while was fading pictures, there isn't a obvious was to do so, so after using the internet's aid for a while, i tired blending the gradient's with the pictures and eventually got it too work.

Final cut at first seemed very hard and tricky to use, however after hours of trial and error i soon found it was a very logical programme to use, for example taking the green screen out and when i needed to add a effect where one artists was singing and there are tv's behind him and i had to add in clips into the TV's behind him and make it it like the TV's where playing a shot of him singing when he was actually singing.At first i didn't know where to start, however after looking into the clips attributes i came across 'Distort', and when i used it, it gave a effect of a angle on the clip like it was shot at a angle but still looked 2D which is what i exactly needed(like the Tv Screen with a blue outline in the picture to the right). and after fitting them each onto the screen behind; i faded them into the background with the opacity function; so it looked real and it was a actual shot real time.

During my work i had to track and show my progress so i used a 'screen grab' function to take pictures of what ever was on screen to show how i did something and to show my progress in my work over time.