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

Before we did any research on actual artists, we decided to look at the history of pop music and the contribution it has on young teenagers today. Seeing as the main overall target audience for hip hop music is teenagers aged 15-19, we decided to make this our target audience.
We decided to use Youtube as the main factor of getting all our information. The reason this was such a good source to get all our information for was because all the current top artists information was on youtube and google. We could obtain large amounts of information on current, relevant artists.
We decided to look at current videos and start thinking about the changes it can make towards the development of the product.

We decided to ask individuals on both facebook and on twitter what they thought would be in a good music. The results are on the group blog and the information will help create the overview on what the actual final product would look like.

First we created a blogger account so that we could track all the information we have created and easily distribute the work between the group. We also set up accounts with Facebook so that we had a group conversation and could easily send information to each other.
We then created a twitter group for the artist so that any information and feedback for the presentation could be sent to that account.
We created a website so that the work could be easily seen from any fans. The website will include things like pictures from photoshoots, fan input tabs, ways to connect with the audience and new releases would easily be able to be sold on this website. We created this website using a tool called wix.

We then used Photoshop design to create the front cover of the digi-pak. The digi-pak was created using Photoshop. We created 3 different sets of digi-paks and got some feedback and made changes to the documents.
We then grabbed a camera and started filming. We made sure we had a story board and location recce so that we knew where to film and become more time-efficient. We made sure, when we were filming that we had enough footage so that we could edit a lot of the video within the first session.
The software we used to film was both final cut pro and adobe after effects CS5. We used these two softwares as they were the easiest to use and because we had the most experience with this.
For my evaluation, I will be talking about different things that helped shape our project. This evaluation will require me to talk about the different things that we came across during the project and will allow me to discuss what future changes I would have made.
The format i will be uploading my work in prezi form, video form and in Powtoon. I chose this format as it will present my work in a professional format.
Throughout the development of our work, i have taken pictures of the stages of the work. The stages of the work have been uploaded onto the group blog and have been uploading the different stages the group have been at with the work until the final product was completed.
We then started to share all the information to both twitter and facebook and recorded all the feedback of the information and have included it in my evaluation video.