Evaluation question 4

Evaluation question 4

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  How do youuse media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? EVALUATION QUESTION 4
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  MAC Throughout the A2media coursework i used the school computers that were available to me; in this case the Apple Macs. This technology allowed me to access the resources i needed to complete my coursework, for example photoshop. This enabled me to complete various pieces of work such as my digipak and poster - as well as other pieces, like collages of photos and mood boards that added to my blogposts. By using the available Macs, it also allowed me to use Final Cut Pro that i used to edit my music video. However, for other various blogposts and research I used my Apple Macbook Pro at home.
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  IPHONE 6 During theduration of the filming of our music video, we had a few drawbacks, for example the camera that we were using died half way through filming and therefore we had to switch to filming on my IPhone 6. The videos we captured came out better than i thought and contributed well to our filming.
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  CANON EOS 550DSLR I used my Canon eos 550d slr camera with an extended lens to shoot the filming of our music video. I chose to use my own camera from home rather than the ones from school as i felt i had a better understanding of how to use it. It's a great quality and high definition camera and i feel that that is represented in the final music video that we created, as all the shots are of good quality and in focus. This also enabled us to get a variety of shots as with connected with a tripod, we could maneuver the camera around the studio.
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  PHOTOSHOP I used photoshopa lot during the process of developing my digipak and poster - as well as other aspects of my blog work. To start with my photoshop skills were quite rusty as i hadn't used the software since my AS media coursework. I feel that this was reflected in my first digipak as the quality wasn't as good as my end product. However, once i had more practice with the software and my confidence in developing my ideas grew, i felt that my finished product was a piece of work that i could be happy with. The primary tools that i used were the magnetic lasso tool, changing size and font of texts, as well as changing the effects of photos.
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  BLOGGER Blogger was afundamental tool when carrying out my A2 media coursework as i used this to publish all of my work on and also type up my written work, such as these evaluation questions. I found this easy to work as i'm quite familiar with the layout and how the website works and also found it really useful to publish and edit work.
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  SCRIBD Scribd was areally useful website for me as it enabled me to upload pieces of written work and embed them onto my blog. This was sometimes better to use than just straight uploading them to blogger as it made a nice change.
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  GOOGLE CHROME Google Chromewas a vital piece of software that i used during the research and planning of my coursework. By using this it enabled me to access pieces of information that contributed to the planning for my music video. It also allowed me to view websites such as uktribes.com.
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  FINAL CUT PRO FinalCut Pro was used to edit my music video as it enabled me to put the clips i had into an order that worked well with the audio from the song choice over the top. I watched tutorial videos via Youtube to get a better understanding of how to use the software and i felt that this really benefited me starting the process of editing. By using Final Cut Pro, this also allowed me to add effects on top of the video, such as distortion that added a nice effect to the final copy of my music video.