3) How did you use media technologies in the construction research, planning and evaluation stages?

I mainly used websites like :

Google was mainly used for images to use on my digipak, advert and to also look at Coldplay's digipaks and student ones to get a general idea from them. I took screenshots of images I needed from google and uploaded them to my posts or used them on the digipak. I usually searched for certain things that I needed like, record label company logo's and the bar code.
Wikipedia was used to get information on Coldplay, Copyright infringement information to use on my Digipak and for other various minor things.
Youtube was used to look at student music videos, Coldplay's videos, Other videos that we were influenced by and Artists that didn't have band members in their video. I typed in certain band names into youtube and looked at several of their videos and picked the ones that applied to our music video idea of having a narrative video without much view of any of the band members.
Lastly blogger was used to blog all my progress, post everything I have learnt and what I have done and just for the entire planning, research and evaluation.

I also used programs like :

Photoshop CS4 was used to make my Digipak on it and also my advertisement.

I used various brushes from deviantart.com on my digipak.
I used took like the brush and bucket. The bucket was used to make the whole digipak black and the brush tool was to use all the downloaded brushes I possibly could. I also used the text tool to write my text on the digipak and change the colour of that text. 

Final cut pro was used to edit our music video and we used a few effects like changing the contrast, hue, fading effect and also edited it to be in sync with the actual song. My group members focused on getting everything all in sync whereas I focused on adding the fades and playing around with the contrast and hue till I found something that I felt worked well.

This was the template I used on photoshop to do my Digipak to start it. 

Lastly we used a professional video camera to film all our shots for our music video and a tripod to keep the camera on so that our shots are steady rather than shaky and tacky.