Our QR code vodcast:
Our QR code in use:
Blogger
The first and definitely one of the most vital pieces of technology we used was blogger. Blogger was vital to our research and planning which are 20 % of the marks and all round presenting of our A2 coursework. We used blogger to showcase everything we did on our project from our final cut to the research into genre. We displayed all our research and planning on this website. As well as the research and planning and the final product we also used blogger to showcase our evaluation questions as these again are 20% of the marks.
YouTube
A second very important technology is YouTube. YouTube allows us to showcase our vodcasts and rough cuts and any other videos we wanted to share. YouTube is helpful in many ways for our project, the theory of web 2.0 allowed us to get feedback on our rough cuts from people commenting feedback on our videos. It allowed a platform for all our videos to be showcased and allowed us to share these videos on blogger, which was probably the most important use of YouTube for team DeJaCu. Our evaluation questions are also put onto YouTube which is 40% of the marks.
Final cut pro
Final cut pro was the editing software that we chose for creating our final cut. As well as the final cut we also created many different vodcasts and other videos. When creating our final cut we used many different effects and transitions that are provided by the software. We used several transitions like cross dissolve and flash which both helped make the video have continuity and the all-round quality of the video was improved. We found that final cut pro was very easy to use ad we had used the software last year and had developed some skills in working with it. Not only the final video was created on final cut but all of our evaluation questions were edited on final cut pro. The software is very professional and is user friendly, even used by the famous directors the Coen brothers.
Divshare
We used Divshare for many of our different tasks on our blogs. One use of divshare was to upload Word documents to our blogs; this was greatly helpful as it allowed us to share many different files for our research and planning. We used this to do things like our timing sheet and lyric sheet. Divshare was also used for creating our weekly podasts and allowed us to put the insomnia song on the top of our blogs.
Magazine sites
Magazine sites like Q magazine allowed us to research into the key conventions of magazine advertisements to imitate when making our magazine ad. We looked at many different magazine sites; mix mag, rolling stones, NME, Mojo and many more. These give us a lot of inspiration for our final mag ad.
Photoshop was vital for producing our digipak and magazine ad, it was an essential. We had no previous experience of using Photoshop, so to begin with it was a struggle to get used to the software. Once we had become used to Photoshop we were able to exploit the range of tools it offered. It allowed us to modify any image we uploaded and we could also download fonts on to the Photoshop software and change the sizes and the positions. There are several different filters to be applied to the images the ones we particularly liked were conte crayon and plastic wrap.
Twitter
Twitter was a great website for us as it allowed us to advertise our film for free. The film industry spend millions on advertising yet one of the best ways is via social networking and that way it is 100% free. Therefore we took this to our advantage and advertised our music video via our own twitter page. It not only helped get our music video out there but it also let us gather inspiration from the people we followed on facebook e.g. faithless and other interesting twitter pages we had found.
Camera
We used a HD camcorder called the -----
Da Font
Da font was used to help create our final digipack and magazine ads. We used this website to search different fonts that would fit in with our final product.
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