1. Q4. How did you use new
media technologies in the
construction and
research, planning and
evaluation stages?

2. Adobe Premier Pro
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.

3. 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.

4. Photoshop
Photoshop 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.

5. Internet - Research
I 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.

6. 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 .

7. YouTube
I 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.

8. 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.

9. “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 .

10. 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.