I have been using an IMAC since

GCSE Media Studies, therefore I

have the skills needed to use this

computer. Also the Programs on

the IMAC were very helpful and

easy to use. The disadvantage of

using the IMAC was that it was very

time consuming and most of work

would get deleted if you did not

save it every 10 minutes.

InDesign is a software that is already familiar to

me as it was used last year as part of my

media coursework. In ‘InDesign’ you could

create Multi-Page flyers, newsletter, broachers

books, reports etc. It helped me to design the

Albums for my Music Video Project. This

software gave me more control over the text,

font, colours and adding or deleting multiple

pages, which made it easier and faster to use.

The disadvantage of this software is that it was

confusing as you might accidently delete the

layer that was needed. Overall I used InDesign

to help me design and create my album cover

which came out amazingly and how we

expected it too come out as. The keys were

easy to use once you get started, because I

had used this software last year to help me

design my magazine cover, so I new what I

was doing. The software helped us sell our

Photoshop was used to manipulate

the pictures of our Artists. An

advantage I found when using this

software was that it improved the

quality of the images used for my

album cover as I was able to edit

the pictures in the way I wanted.

However it was time consuming as

there was different tools that do

different things and so it took time

to familiarize myself with the tools.

Overall I used this software to help

me cut out the images for my album

covers, which was really easy and

useful. I found the keys really easy

to use.

It took me one and a half lesson to get used

the Final Cut because it was my first time

using it. I also had to get used to the idea of

cutting the bit you wanted and using the

Chroma key and the different background

colour schemes. It was really fun using

Final Cut because it helped me to use

different types of effects in designing my

music video. The negative effect of using

Final Cut is that the Chroma Key didn’t work

well because of moving the colour around to

get rid of the green which was hard because

of the bright colours we used on the green

screen.

Camera was really easy and fun

to use. We had use the camera

for our Album cover, which went

really went. This camera was

fast to use and had a really

good colour effect and the

buttons on the camera were

easy to use, when you wanted

to zoom in and zoom out. Also

the use of flash was not needed

because of the Lighting effect

that was in the studio. But

overall camera was the most

easiest technology that I used

throughout the project.

Connecting wire was a tool I used to

connect the camera to the computer to

get the images I had taken with the

camera onto the computer to be used

for the album cover.

The Video Camera was

essential throughout the project.

Without a Video Camera there

is no music video. It was hard

using this video camera at first

because at the same time I was

shooting on a green screen

which we had to make sure the

camera was set on the right

mode. After being told how to

use the video camera it was

really easy. I used this video

camera four times for our music

video, and every time it became

easier to use.

The tripod was very easy and

useful to use. It helped me to

get the positioning of the

camera to be still and focus on

the artist, instead of using my

hand I used the tripod. Also I

needed different high and low

angels and instead of taking the

camera off and placing it on the

floor. All you had to do is

remove the legs.

The different types of lighting were

essential. They gave us the image we

needed for both our video and print

product. It was really easy to set out

and put in the right places to get the

effect. It was fast, so did not waste

time setting out the studio. It gave our

project great effect especially in the

print product for our Album cover.

However even though the lighting did

work for our video, it did not give the

‘pop’ look we were looking for like you

would see in a pop music video.

Green Screen can provide various

background options without leaving

the studio. The Green Screen was

the main thing I used throughout the

music video. This was really easy to

use and gave me the chance to

replace the background with images

or different coloured backgrounds

that I needed. The green screen was

useful because as the location that

was going to be used in the music

video could not be used because of

the bad weather, the green screen

provided an easier way of inserting

our own background in. The

disadvantage was that as bright

colour outfits and props were used

and worn, it was really hard to take

out the green, which did not give the

I use Google on a daily basis

and so I am very familiar with

it, so it was very easy and useful

to use for my project. Google

helped me in researching

information about our music

genre and also information

about branding. This was useful

because Google is constantly

updated with new

information, so we were sure we

were getting up to date

information for our research.

Images were also gathered from

Google Images which were

used for our research planning

and footage. For example the

Hollywood sign, McDonalds etc.

This website is fast and easy to

Blogger is really simple and easy to use

because I had used it last year to post our

blogs for our media project. It was easy

posting blogs on the blogger because you

won’t end up losing your work. Also its

really easy uploading pictures to blogger

from the computer and links from You

Tube. The disadvantage of Blogger is that

it won’t let you change the layout to what

you want, which was really hard and

annoying, but overall Blogger made it

easier to go back and forth through the

work that you had posted and see what

you needed to do and so it made

everything organised.

I used You Tube because it helped

me research music videos for our

planning. It also helped me to

produce Screen Shots of a Music

video, for example Taylor Swift. It

also helped me look at other artists

who were in the same music genre

as the artist we were going to use.

I also used You Tube to upload my

weekly progress reports for my final

music video and also the audience

feedback, which was really helpful

and easy to use and it looked good

on ‘blogger’.

I used Amazon to purchase and look for

the mask. I was already a user and often

shop on Amazon so I knew I could get

some good celebrity face mask for a

good price, which I did.

Power Point Presentation consist of a number

of individual pages or ‘slides’. Slides contain

texts, graphic, sound movies and other objects,

which may be arranged freely. Power point is

something I am comfortable in using. It is easy

to use and helpful in organising your work. I

used Power Point software a number of times.

I liked the idea that you could decorate and

design the Power Point in a way that you

wanted. It also made our blogger look more

organised and interesting.

Microsoft is a Word Processor that was used

for typing up the two questionnaires for our

audience. I felt that this was the best

software to use because it includes features

such as a spell checker, numbering options

and printing options.

Slide Share is an online slide hosting

service. Users can upload files such

as Power Points, Open Office etc. I

enjoyed using slide share because it

was really easy and free to use. I

didn’t need no help, even though it

was my first time as I found it easy

and simple to use. I used this

website to upload all the power

points I had designed for planning

and researching and evaluating.

ITunes is a useful downloading

website for music. I used iTunes to

download the song for the music

video. I am comfortable in

downloading songs from iTunes.

DaFont

DaFont.Com, is a website with thousands of

different fonts, which was really helpful as you could

see which font would look great with the image of

our Artist. The fonts are free to download and fast.

Also, we could use these fonts in InDesign , for our

Album Cover.

Create a Graph

Create a Graph explains and

illustrates the different types of graphs

available, and provides a step-by-step

guide to creating a graph for example

a pie chart that we used. We used

‘create a graph’ for our evaluation of

our audience feedback. It was really

fast and simple to use, for example to

create a pie chart and evaluating our

audience feedback.

Prezi Presentation

Prezi is a cloud-based Presentation

software that opens up a new world

between whiteboards and slides. It

was my first time using Prezi

Presentation, and it was very easy

as tutorials were given in how to

use it. It is a creative way of

presenting your work, which I really

liked. It was also fun to use.