The document discusses the various technologies used during different stages of a coursework project, including research, planning, production, and evaluation. Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and blogs were used for initial research and planning. Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and a HD camera were the main programs and equipment used for production. PowerPoint, YouTube, and blogs hosted the evaluation and allowed for an interactive experience through use of different media types. Rendering HD footage in Final Cut Pro was time consuming.

3.  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.

4.  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.

5.  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.

6.  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.g
Chroma keying.

7.  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.

8.  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.

9.  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.

10.  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.

11.  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.

12.  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.