1. Question 4How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages? Media Technologies used Throughout our project we have constantly been using many different media technologies such as : Final Cut Express Indesign and Photoshop Digital Stills and DV Cameras Internet and various websites Blogger Green Screen Jamendo These have all helped and contributed in some way to our final project. Final Cut express was used to place our video footage onto the computer and to edit them into the timeline sequence to create the overall video. This technology had both it’s advantages and disadvantages. Firstly the disadvantage of using final cut express over imovie to edit our video was that i had never used final cut express in AS and so it was hard to learn how to use the software and this took quite a while to understand and be fluent in knowing which specific buttons did certain things, this meant that it slowed down the speed at which we created the video, leaving less time at the end for my 2 ancillary tasks.

2. However the training and help booklet on this helped me to overcome this and slowly understand it, however I do believe that if we had used i movie it would have been quicker and simpler to us. On the other hand by using Final Cut Express it gave a more clear cut finish to the finished product and once I knew how to use it, I found that it had many advantages to it, such as more and better effects/ transitions and in more detail you could edit these to how you wanted them to fit to your work. For example when we used the sepia effect, we was able to edit the colouring of the sepia and tone it down so as not to add an orange clip into our video sequence, we edited to look rustic and old to give it the clear effect that we had wanted. Another advantage however was that the digital still camera was not very professional and so in the end we opted to use Hannah tabor own camera for our ancillary as we felt it produced a sharper picture. Photoshop was then used to edit the pictures as well in order to be able to add clouds to our front cover to make the sky seem more realistic and also to edit the lighting in the picture to make them brighter so they stand‘s out as when the picture was taken it was quite a dull day , however I came across a disadvantage here as it took some time remembering how to use Photoshop. Indesign was then used in order the create the page layout on such tasks as the Magazine advert

6. An extremely complex layout, meant that it was difficult to locate the devices we were searching for to use within our coursework

9. PowerPoint I have used PowerPoint to create my overall evaluation of my entire coursework: I believe this has been to my advantage as I have been using this from a very young age and so I am able to work my way around it easier than most software However I do see this to be a very outdated piece of software as it does not have many tools included which has limited me to some extent On the other hand I do feel that by completing my evaluation on this software could be to my advantage as the rest of my group has opted to do their evaluations on www.blogger.com. Blogger Throughout the whole project blogger has played an important role. This has been to update and describe each set of the way, from our introduction, choosing the song to adding the completed video onto. This has meant that we have been able to keep track of the progress we have made at each step of the way. It also meant that we never lost track of thought as we always knew we direction we were heading in with each scene shoot or editing.

11. Had a huge variety of music

12. It was all copyright free

13. & finally it was well recommended