1. Question 4: How did you use media technologies in the construction, research,
planning and evaluation stages?
I used several different media products to complete the advanced portfolio coursework. For
the planning, production and evaluation parts of the coursework we had to use several
different programmes and accessories.
IMacs
I used this facility to complete all of my coursework.
This was due to it having more suitable programmes
and having a larger hard-drive. They included
programmes such as InDesign, Photoshop, Final Cut
and several other editing programmes for our
coursework. I prefer using the IMacs for editing of
pictures and videos over windows as it was easier to
understand the concepts of Photoshop and Final Cut. I
do prefer Windows however for saving and completing
work on Microsoft Word and PowerPoint however, as I
am more experienced in those networks.
Google
I used Google to research the background into the Indie Music
Genre and to find images of bands to place in my research. I
also find it easier to use Google as it seemed to find everything
which I clicked for it to search. It is also quicker and straighter
forward than Yahoo and Ask as it had more links to web
pages.
YouTube
YouTube is a video streaming website which streams videos
of all types which members of the public can view. The
website helped us out with our coursework as it gave us
advice on video layout and understand the artist we were
trying to create. However we could only get certain videos on
YouTube due to copy right issues and this meant we had to
use different websites to find products which were going to be similar.
Blogger
We used Blogger to store our research, practical and evaluation parts
of our coursework. Blogger is a free programme and it also entitled us
to keep a progress of our coursework. It was really efficient in
uploading videos, PowerPoint’s and photos to show our progress.

2. However the font and colour scheme was limited in the programme and that was the only
issue I had with blogger.
HD Camera
To film the music video we used the HD camera to
capture all of our footage. We also felt that these
cameras had a more improved brightness level than a
standard camera. It also meant that it was significantly
easier to remove the green background and place a new
background using the editing programmes.
Studio and lights
The studio meant we could follow the comic book theme
which we aimed to use for the creation of our video. Due to
us using the studio for all of the music video we were able to
use the best equipment available and this entitled us to use
various effects such as the green screen and the studio lights
which could be altered. We could also make the video
consistant and this allowed us to make the video look
professional. However, we had to book in slots and this meant we had to have several shoots
of the video.
Digital camera
We used the digital camera to take pictures of some of our progress,
we also used it for our anxillary tasks and to monitor the progress of
our coursework.
Final Cut Express
This programme was used to edit the video. Everyone did the
basics such as arranging the audio and video layout. We also
edited files and cropped the video when it needed editing.
Teigan had specific ideas in mind to include more advanced
special effects etc, and so she incorporated those into the video.
This meant that we were able to explore new options and create
the comic book layout throughout the video. The programme
also had several features such as chroma key and editing
hue/saturation in the video. Final cut had many features, which
allowed for our group to be more creative.

3. InDesign
I used this programme to create the anxillary tasks. The
programme included a variety of very useful features, i.e.
changing the fonts, importing pictures and backgrounds, and
having picture ratios to work with. The program itself was
easy to use as I could use patterning and creating shapes to
include text and pictures in our products. However the
programme could be time consuming as it took a long time to
do basic editing
PhotoShop
Photoshop was an easy programme to use on the IMac and the
editing of photos were thoroughly done once I started to
understand the programme. It had a wider variety of features
than most regular photo editing programs had, and could do
more advanced things, i.e. cropping out the backgrounds etc,
which were very useful, as we created custom backgrounds on
PhotoShop using its wide range of brushes and other features
and then were able to use the cropped images to incorporate
into our created backgrounds. I felt that Photoshop was an
easy programme to use and I felt comfortable editing photos to a professional standard. The
downside to Photoshop was that it could only do certain tasks and this meant we had to use
different programmes
DaFont.com
I used DaFont.com to find the suitable fonts needed to
create our anxillary products. We also had to use DaFont
to follow other members of our courseworks anxillary
tasks and follow a set purpose in the creation of products.
I thought the programme was easy to use as it allowed us to explore different fonts and
download them to our own tasks.
PowerPoint
I used PowerPoint for my evaluation and this allowed me to
be adventurous with the layout and fonts. This made my
presentation appealing and allowed me to incorporate both
pictures and text into each slide. The programme was straight
foward as it allowed me to present more information than
blogger and Word; this meant i could spread my work over
several slides. To upload the PowerPoint to the presentation I

4. would use slideshare and this meant I could place it on blogger. It was a simple programme
and didn’t take long to understand.