The document describes the various new media technologies the author used to complete their coursework, including Final Cut Pro for video editing, Adobe Photoshop for graphic design, web browsers for research, and social media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Blogger to share their work. The author provides notes on both the benefits and limitations of each technology in completing their video project and evaluations.

1. Evaluation Question 4
How Did I Use New Media
Technologies?
Amber-rose Smith

2. Final Cut Pro
• I used Final Cut Pro 6 to edit and export
my video and some of my evaluations
• + Powerful editing tool
• - Rendering is a time-consuming and often
causes the video to crash

3. Adobe Photoshop
• Used to create borders for the video and
cartoon titles
• Created the Digipak and Full Page Ad
• + Sophisticated photo editing tool

4. Dafont.com
• Used to download comic style font for the
video and ancillary texts

5. Quick Time
• Creating Video files
• Exporting to smaller videos (for putting on
Blogger etc
• + Very versatile and made it easy to swap
between Mac and PC

6. MPEG Streamclip
• Changing the format of my footage into an
easily editable format.
• + Makes it easy to swap between hardware
but ultimately work in one format e.g. easy
to convert video from phone and iPad
• - It’s important to export the right format
and getting it wrong can cause problems

7. Microsoft Word
• Writing notes
• Typing up the shotlist, shooting schedule
etc.
• Spell checking my blog posts
• Planning script for evaluations
• - Different versions of the program arent
compatible

8. Microsoft Powerpoint
• Presentation to class
• Answering evaluation questions
• + Very good presentation tool; easy to
share
• - Presentations can be static and boring
without video or audio links

9. Web Browsers
• Predominantly Safari and Google Chrome
• Used for general internet access
• Research of previous A level work & real
media texts
• Emailing work
• Gaining feedback
• + Used everyday
• - School browser filtered numerous useful
websites

10. Blogger
• I used blogger to keep my coursework in
one place.
• For my Teacher and the examiners to
review and mark.
• + Good hub for all my work
• - Text presentation can be hit and miss; I
haven’t worked out how to reorder posts
according to subject

11. Youtube
• Uploaded videos and evaluation questions to
put onmyblog.
• Researched real media texts
• + Interactive resource for consuming and
contributing
• Gaining feedback

12. Facebook
•Used to upload my video
• Useful for gaining feedback

13. Beemp3.com
• I used beemp3 to download my track
Droideka – Get Hyper
• Technically illegal software

14. Desktop iMac
• Used for all work in school
• + Linked to a network so computer work
can be flexible
• - Crashed often
• - Computers were often unavailable
• -Limited timings

15. Canon SLR 550D
• This is the camera that the majority of the
music video was filmed with.
• + Digital SD card transfers files to
computer via a card reader
• + High Definition filming capability
• - SD card capacity limited the amount of
filming (had to purchase another one
whilst shooting!)

16. Photobooth
• Used to film footage for evaluation questions