The document discusses the use of various new media technologies in the production of a music video. Premier Pro was used to edit video clips, including adding fades, cuts, resizing clips, and altering speed and color. Photoshop allowed editing of photos, including removing text and applying filters to create overlays. YouTube provided inspiration from other artists' videos and was used to upload and share the finished video. Blogger served as a platform to publish work online, including research, planning, and embedded videos.

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

2. PREMIER PRO – editing software
We used Premier Pro to create our music video. It
was quite difficult to begin with,
especially as we had used a different editing
programme last year. However I feel that I
learnt how to use the software relatively
quickly, learning how to cut and copy clips, altering
the size of shots and speed.
For example
• Fades in/out and cuts
throughout the entire video
• Overlays/transparency of the
master shot
• Resized the lip shots, so that
they were side by side, and
later, shrunk to the beat
• Slowed down the drum clips to
emphasize the flour rising into
air (reduced to 50%)
• Various colour corrections

3. PHOTOSHOP- editing picture
I was not very familar with Photoshop, as I had only used it a
few time before, so using the software this time, I was
determind to learn exactly how to use it.
We used photoshop to edit to the photographs for the digipack
and magazine advert.
One achievement I was particularily please about, was that I
was able to erase a band name from one of the jumpers
without making it look obvious.
We placed dark brown filters over our photos then transformed
them into overlays so that the two would merge, to create a
more natural edit that looks warm and follows the colour
scheme too. I also discovered the ‘burn’ tool which gently
added colour, darkening the shot. We used this tool primarily
around the edges and to exaggerate shadows.

4. YOUTUBE- group channel
We used YouTube in a variety of different way throughout this process. Firstly we
used it to gather information and ideas as we researched different artists and how
they created their music videos, and as inspiration towards our own.
We used it to back up our ideas, gathering examples from youtube, we also used
youtube to learn various Photoshop skills before we started editing. We did this by
watching (and copying) tutorials.
And lastly we used Youtube to upload our work once we had completed it.
This was so that it would be easily reachable by the entire group, and
so that we would be able to embed it into other pieces of work.

5. BLOGGER
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows private or multi-users. It
was developed by Pyra Labs. We use Blogger to upload all of our
work, for the coursework. This means any research, planning or
information for our music video.
Features on Blooger include: being able to insert images and
embedding videos and other applications such as Prezi and Slideshare.