Dion Johnson used various media technologies to modify stages of their Advanced Portfolio, displaying images before and after development. Photoshop was used to add effects to images, allowing for creativity but also limiting the intended social realism convention. Indesign was employed to produce a film review, requiring new skills as it was an unfamiliar program. Final Cut Pro, which Dion had experience with previously, was effectively used to construct a short film, though some issues around jittery footage, background noise and missing content required fixes.

1. Before and After using
media technologies
By Dion Johnson

7. How I used media
technologies..
From the previous images it is clear that that media technologies has allowed me to
make changes and modifications to different stages of my Advanced Portfolio. I have
displayed the images before and after the development of technology. This can also
show my skills that I explored in within media technology.
Photoshop – this was a huge software using the computer that I used for adding effects
onto my images. On the first 3 slides you can identify evident and obvious changes that I
experimented with using Photoshop. Not only, did Photoshop enhance my creativity, I still
feel that it hampered it because it kind of took away the idea that I was going for with the
social realism convention.
Indesign - This was a software that I used on a computer in order to produce and create
my film review. This was a new programme to which meant that I needed to develop new
skills. Luckily, this software was made by the same people as Photoshop, therefore many
tools were similar, such as, the magic wand tool.
Final Cut Pro - I have previous experience using this software from year 12. I believe this
was a effective and advanced way of putting our short film together. I used this in the
construction stages of my film but I did encounter some problems, such as, some footage
being jumpy, background noise and missing footage. Final Cut allowed me to identify
these errors so I would detach audio (look at previous slide) and I could edit some
footage to make it appear more pacey or run smoothly into the next scene.