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I used YouTube to upload drafts of music video and the final music video itself. YouTube was a useful website as it allowed me to upload longer videos than I am able to upload onto blogger. For example while I was able to upload small clips like my experiments with time lapse and stop motion to blogger I was unable to upload my final music video as it was to large so I had to use Youtube for this instead.

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I used google for most of my research into existing music videos and digipak. This was useful because I was able to access the official music videos, digipaks and posters for the artists I decided to research. This saved me both time and money as I was able to look at the posters and digipaks without having to find physical copies this would save time because some posters may not be displayed anymore as they are not the current album of the artist.

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For most of my digipak and poster I decided to use serif because I had experience using it from when I did AS media studies last year in which I made a music magazine this made the process much quicker and far more efficient than if I had decided to use a new piece of software that I would have had to learn. However, Serif page Plus and photo plus are somewhat limited in their level of photo manipulation especially when it came to creating the effect of my artist turning into smoke as I was unable to do this in serif and had to instead use Photoshop for this.

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I used photoshop to create the effect of my artist turning into smoke that I used for my poster and digipak. I decided to use this for photoshop because it is easy to install custom brushes and to apply layer masks compared to serif the custom brushes were essential for creating an effective and unique smoke effect as I was able to install 30 different smoke brushes that I used to create the final image.

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For editing my music video I used imovie. This software was fast and efficient t rendering graphics however it was limited in the way I could edit it because the timeline would shift every time a change was made earlier in the timeline. This meant that lip-syncing became even more of a time-consuming process as if I discovered one clip out of sync at the beginning I would have to correct every proceeding clip after it in the timeline. Another limitation of imovie is that it only allowed for 2 layers of video this meant that when creating my shot with 3 of the artist in the frame I had to make part of the clip in a different file this made lip-syncing for this clip really difficult.

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I used the digital camera for a few shots of my music video the camera produced high quality footage and was overall very professional. However, the camera limited my time and location that. I could film in as it was difficult to transport to and from filming locations. For example while it was useful for still shots of my artist when it came to shots that required a lot of movement from the camera like the pan along the bottom of the bed it was a lot easier to use my mobile phone than to use the digital camera

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For my music video I used imovie and therefore I had to use a mac. These were very fast at rendering graphics however it limited me in when I could edit my video because I don’t own an apple computer therefore I could only edit my music video when at school. However, this wasn’t much of limitation except for school holidays when I was unable to edit my music video.

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I used my mobile phone for a majority of the filming for my music video. This was useful because it was as powerful as the digital camera while being more portable, so it was less to get to the shooting locations. It was also useful for time lapses as I was able to set them up whenever I found something that would make a great shot rather than being reliant on when I took out the camera from my school. For example my mobile phone was extremely useful for getting time lapse shots because if I saw something that would work as a time lapse that I had not thought of before hand

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Padlet is an online presentation creation tool that I used to make many posts for my research, planning and evaluation. I found Padlet useful because it allowed me to easily split up my ideas into sections while still having them on one page rather than being completely separate like prezi or google slides.

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Emaze is an online tool that allows you to create a unique presentation for a blog post. This was useful because it allowed me to create well laid out presentations of my research and planning and analysis. One useful part is that I was able to link my emaze to the blogpost meaning that you do not need to go to an external website to view it. Since it has a similar layout to a regular blog post I decided to use it because it allowed for much higher levels of customisation.

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Google slides is a presentation that allows you to create online presentations. I found this software very useful because it allowed me to create a basic slide that I could embed into blogger.

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Prezi is a slide presentation creation program that I used to present many parts of my research and planning and my evaluation. This program was useful because it allows me to plan out my ideas in an organised way that people can easily digest. However, it is not without limitations, for example the fact that you can’t embed the Prezi’s into blogger and so you have to link to it rather than have it feature in the blog itself. Another limitation of Prezi is that you can only make and edit Prezi’s when using the google chrome browser while it is not a huge limitation it is somewhat annoying.

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I used blogger to create posts of the development of my coursework. This was useful because it allowed me to create documentation for my project, so I could keep track of my previous versions of products, so I could compare them, so I could see them and see how I have improved. Using blogger also allowed me to keep in contact with my teachers and show them my product this allowed them to give me feedback towards my products at every stage allowing to improve my project overall.