Google - for information on research and image searches. ( I found this useful as it helped me gather information rapidly to

do my work efficiently faster)

Wikipedia - for confirming dates and faces found about artists

we searched for. (convenient for double checking!)

Blogger - for hosting our coursework portfolio.PowerPoint - for making work look more interesting on the

blog, splitting up walls of text and to add more of an

interactive interface to the portfolio.

Through this section of planning, an issue

I came across was the reliability of

sources used; but this was only the case

of Wikipedia, but following citations at

the bottom, it quickly resolved that issue

to more reliable websites (e.g. Official

homepages)

Also; magazines are based on only

opinions, though those subjective

interpretations of things are useful in our

work.

Youtube - to find the inspirational videos and to use the

embed codes to use on our blogs.

Powerpoint - for making work look more interesting on the

blog, splitting up walls of text and to add more of an

interactive interface to the portfolio.

Sources - e.g Music magazines, artist websites etc.

Camera- To take WIP stills and the photo-shoot.

The main piece of technology we used throughout our work was Final Cut Pro, as if we used the same program as last year, Imovie, the skills shown would have not been enough, as you need a more complex program to do more interesting things that we used in out video more professionally, e.gChroma keying.

To use Final Cut pro to its full potential, we used the college's HD camera for our filming. This got the most crisp images and easy to work with shots to use with editing, green screens and image manipulation. However; a downside we faced to all this was that due to the HD footage and editing, the video's rendering took a very long time, sometimes even a whole lesson, which was very inconvenient, though worth the hassle.

The camera was very easy to work with, using the manual or automatic focus, and it was interesting to use white balance, where as last year, it wasn't that much of an issue in my work, as working outside its not completely necessary. Lighting was also fun to use as we could try new things, with the camera angles also, so we could create different feels to shots and manipulating was an interesting use of technology.

In the Ancillary tasks, the main technologies used

were Adobe Photoshop and InDesign. I also used

my graphics tablet; The Wacom bamboo pen and

touch.

With these programs I drew images of Jessica, edited them, used photo manipulation and removed the backgrounds from the photos from the photo-shoot. In Design came into use to make the inner panels, though I didn't use them personally, as I am more used to Photoshop and could do the same on there. On Photoshop, I used the colour replace tool lots, and used different layers manipulating textures and opacity to create my 'space' theme. These programs were used as they are very high standard editing programs and can give the best possible results of photo editing, to make the work look much more professional.

Powerpoint, Youtube and Blogger where the main things used here in the evaluation, blogger to host all the evaluation, Youtube for having video embed codes to show other videos as comparison in the 'how does our media product conform/break conventions' part. Powerpoint was used for making work look more interesting on the blog, splitting up walls of text of our evaluation and to add more of an interactive interface to the portfolio. Also, using different media types for our product allows for easier information processing, as its not all boring to look at.

For the evaluation, we also did a directors commentary, which we recorded the same as the footage, on a HD camera and edited on Final Cut. This helped the interaction between audience and our product through the use of another form of interface. An issue I found from this was that it was far too time consuming for just one task, as Final Cut was only on the college Macs. Rendering also made things irritating and having to wait for the footage (HD) to convert to a usable file on FCP. I should have used a standard definition camera to film my footage, it would have resolved time issues.