Q4. How did you use new media technologies in the

construction and research, planning and

evaluation stages?

Adobe Premiere Pro is a software which allows us to edit our music video. While using this software I found that it was useful in helping me in showing editing, cropping the video so it is fluent and adjust part of the video that we couldn’t do while videoing i.e. increase the brightness of some scenes . Although Adobe Premier was useful it was quite difficult to understand at first as their were so much things that the programme does that it got confusing.

Adobe Premier Pro

Serif Movie plus

Using this programme I was able to crop my vox pox and take out mistakes with speech and gestures . When I was first introduced to this program I found it quite easy to understand because it doesn’t have much to it like adobe premier does. From this software i was able to upload my video onto YouTube which was convenient for me.

PhotoshopPhotoshop was used to adjust the images of the main artists on the CD and magazine advert so she can look smooth and have a soft innocent look to her . I used this program mainly on my ancillary text. I was very familiar with this software as I relied on it a lot during my AS media coursework , so I knew what I was doing to alter the picture to get the look that I wanted it to have.

Internet - ResearchI used the internet to access Google, Wikipedia and Blogger and other search engines to help me to create my Blog.

Google was used to get images of artists and find conventional images to fit in with my music video

I used Wikipedia while researching about an artists through the years of their career and find out the conventions of a real music video. I used the internet to access YouTube and unsigned artist which is the website that we found our artist Amy Piner.

The internet I also use to access Slide Share, Dive Share and Hotmail.

Video camera and camera The camera I thought was simple to use as I have used this type of camera previously so I knew what to do. However I did face some difficulty using it to do the stop motion as we had to use a different settings on the camera to do this so the camera takes the pictures quickly one after the other. However we got use to it after asking our teacher for help when we faced some difficulty with it.

The video camera we used for the scenes without the stop motion , this part was not hard to do but we had to remember things about it in order for it to work out well i.e. placing it on a tripod when we wanted a steady frame, using the handle on the tripod to track actions and adjust .

YouTubeI use YouTube to upload my Vox- Pox and music video on. I didn’t have any trouble doing this, however I had to make a YouTube account in order to upload it. YouTube can be seen

as a good way in getting our video noticed as it has many users.

Scribd and Slide Share are used to upload documents on , I used them for a different way to present information. Slideshows for slide share is uploaded from Microsoft PowerPoint and documents for Scribed is uploaded from Microsoft Word , however Scribd sometimes disorganises the order I have on word to I tend not to use this often.

Microsoft Word I usually use to type up information before I post it on my blog, this is because I don’t want to make to much mistakes and word can check my spelling and grammar.

Blogger I use all the time to upload documents on and show my daily progress of my coursework. This I found easy to use as I had used it previously in my AS coursework.

“What’s Up” is an application on smart phones that allow the group members and actors to communicate with each other, this was an effective source of contacting each other when we need to arrange to meet up to film or to keep track of who will be able to make it and who won’t.

Div Share I used to upload audio for audience feed back and to put up Amy Piner’s song that we wanted to use.

I like using this site because I found it easy to use .

Hotmail I used to send emails to myself when I didn’t have my USB and we used it to communicate with Amy Piner to ask permission to use her song and ask for an attachment of her song lyrics.

I use my USB to store my work on by saving it on the device to upload it on to my blog, it is very convenient and easy to us.