1. MEDIA STUDIES FINAL EXAM Q1A)
Coursework Brief Digital Technology Used How this technology was
used, and how was it
developed a A2?
AS Brief - Itunes movie maker - Techniques such as
transitions, fades text over
film e.c.t We edited sound
into the video, and a still
edited photo of my own
creation
- Photoshop - I used the dodge burn
and smudge tool to
make a grey blurred
picture in my first year
- Sony Handicam - We used the
sonyhandicam to film
our first year
coursework, using the
cable to upload to
movie maker and then
to edit. We also used a
tripod to keep our
- Slidershare shots still.
- In order to produce
our work (the written
side) and upload it to
the blog we used
professional word
sharing website
- Flash Mic slideshare.
- To record sound and
place it over our movie
we used a flash mic,
then we used a cable
to place it on the mac
and used itunesmovie
maker to edit it into
our coursework.
A2 Brief - Final Cut Express - We used this programme
to edit our video for our A2
music video, tools such as
razor, transitions and
filters such as comic and
effects such as dissolve
and iris. We then exported
files to quicktime and
uploaded to blogger and
youtube
- NikonD20 - Our video contained

2. heavy use of stop motion,
to create this we took
multiple photo’s of the
action we wanted to
capture (at least 7FPS), we
then uploaded all of these
into final cut, minimized
the showing time to a
millisecond a photo and
were immediately granted
with a stop motion short.
We did this four times in
total with around one
minute and a half stop
motion footage in the final.
- Adobe Photoshop -