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

2. Adobe Premiere Pro CS3
This was the main software used for creating our music video
Tools used:
• Capture: used to get the footage from the video camera to
the adobe software.
• Project manager: used to keep all our files
together, allowing use to edit swiftly without any problems.
• Razor tool: allowed us to selected our desired footage by
cutting the start and end.
• Zoom in: allowed for footage to be seen close this was
helpful when working with short clips.
• Rolling edit tool: able to add on footage after having cut it.
This saved time from having to extract the clip again from
the long video files.
• Video transitions: this effect made the transition run more
smoothly.
• Video effects: these effects allowed me to make clips
brighter, appear sharper whilst also having effects like black

3. Adobe Photoshop CS5
This program was mainly used to produce the ancillaries
Tools used:
• Lasso (magnetic and polygonal)- enabled me to cut around
images or select particular parts of the image which I wanted
to work on.
• Filter effects Texture– crauelure effect, used to give the CD
back cover image a painted effect.
• Gaussian blur: this filter effect was used to blur our the
background of the CD back cover
• Spot healing brush: used to get rid of any skin imperfections
and make the image appear more professional
• Stroke: stroke tool allowed us to line our typography to make
it stand out,
• Opacity tool: enabled us to fade out the text so that it blended
with the image background
• Eye dropper tool- used to get the exact same colour for text
• Guid lines helped me maintain a level when positioning
images and text.

4. Unsigned.com/ Hotmail
Unsigned.com made it very easy for us
to find our desired band, the website
provided music from different types
of genres. It also provided us with
useful information of how we could
contrast our desired band and it
allowed us to download the music
track.
We used hotmail to communicate we
the performers we casted and the
band we casted. Hotmail also
allowed for me and my group to
share ideas when we were apart. It
proved to be very useful as we were
able to attach and share
images, links, audio and videos with
each other. We also used hotmail to
contacted the band for permission to
use their song.

5. YouYube
The video sharing website YouTube
helped with uploading videos which
would inevitably go on my blog.
I uploaded my vox pox, question one
evaluation and actual music video
through YouTube.
I was also able to embed other videos
(mainly music videos) to my blog by
getting the embedded code from
youtube.
I also used YouTube to watch tutorials
of adobe premiere whenever I found
it difficult to perform an idea on the
software

6. Microsoft Word/ Excel
Microsoft word was used to
type up my questionnaire
and check for any
spelling mistakes.
Microsoft Excel was used to
record my results from
the questionnaire and
present the date visually

7. Microsoft PowerPoint/
Slideshare
I used PowerPoint to present most
of my work, this preferred using
this software to presented my
ideas clearly and collectively.
Slideshare allowed me to embed
my PowerPoint's on my blog.

8. DivShare
Website used to upload and embed my sound tracks into my
blog

9. Blogger
Blogger was used to present our whole project. We were
able to upload images, embed audio and videos to clearly
show our progress leading to our final product. It was able
to collectivly and safely store all our work.

10. Video (camera)/ Tripod
• Digital camera: used to take photos for the ancillaries.
Also used to take photos which were used for the stop
motion.
• Video camera: used to record the main footage for the
music video.
• The tripod was used to keep the camera steady and as a
result produce footage which didn’t have a hand held
effect and therefore looked proffectional.

11. USB
My USB allowed me to keep all my files in one place. I used
a 16GB USB therefore I was able to save large files onto
it.

12. iMovie
I used imovie to compose my question one. The tools available were very basic however
the file was easily uploaded onto YouTube.