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Because I don't have Final Cut Pro on my Macbook at home I used IMovie to create my Question 3 of the evaluation.

I wanted to produce a video where I added a voiceover over the top so I needed to use IMovie to edit the footage.

This could have been done better if i'd have used a more professional and advanced editing programme such as Final Cut Pro however I didn't have access to the college IMac's at the time.

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I used an online formatting website called Glogster to create a poster interactive image for me to present my Evaluation Question 2.

It has allowed me to add stickers and colours in order to make a text heavy post look visually interesting and unique.

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Finally, the last new media technology that I have used is to present this Question 4 evaluation question.

I chose to use this website because it has allowed me to create an online flowchart that i can import images and links to video's into, making my blog post less text heavy and interactive because the examiner can navigate themselves around the page.

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I used an advanced photograph editing software called Adobe Photoshop. I decided to use this editing programme to create my ancillary products because it meant that I could save it as a Photoshop file and go back to editing it later with the separate layers on it. This is different to PicMonkey because these images have to be saved as JPEG's meaning that they can't be edited again.

I wanted my ancillary products to look professional, surreal and complex  in order to relate to my music genre of Alternative Rock, Photoshop allowed me to do this.

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Final Cut Pro is the programme that I used to edit my music video on. It is a well known programme used in the media industry. So using this has also taught experienced me for future tasks.
I chose to use this programme for the A2 task because I had used it during my Preliminary and main task during AS level and therefore I knew how to use it so I could focus on expanding my knowledge and learning more advanced editing techniques. Such as alternating between colour and black and white to show a flashback and adding a letterbox effect to give a cinematic feel.

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I used both the IMac computers at college and Macbook Pro at home to complete my A2 media task.

I used the IMac throughout all stages of the task. Mainly through the post-production stage of editing my music video. This is because I did not have Final Cut Pro on my Macbook at home so I had to do it all in college.

I used the Macbook Pro to do outstanding work at home, formatting my blog content mainly because there wasn't enough time to do this in college lessons.

I also used the Macbook to create both of my ancillary products because I wanted to use Adobe Photoshop, a programme that the IMac's at school didn't have installed.

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For the imagery of the couple on my ancillary products, I took the images in a studio set up with three white softbox lights and a white backdrop.

This enables me to get good quality images that would look professional on my ancillary products.

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I used my phone to take images of things to upload onto blogger.
I also used it to conduct research on Google because it is small and portable therefore very appropriate.

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I used an online programme called SlideShare to share my Microsoft Powerpoint's onto blogger. This is because you can't embed Powerpoint onto blogger.

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I used Microsoft Powerpoint during different stages of the task. I used it because it is a simple and easy to use presentation maker that allows me to create visually interesting content.

I first used Powerpoint for the You Me At Six artist research blog post.

However, the negative aspect of Powerpoint was that it wasn't compatible with Blogger so in order to upload the content I either had to save each slide as an individual JPEG file or shade the Powerpoint to Slideshare, then embed that into Blogger. This caused a setback for me as doing this was more time consuming when I had to meet deadlines. Additionally, it meant that I couldn't apply transitions to make the presentations more interesting.

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I used google mail to compose an email to Virgin Records requesting to use the You Me At Six song, 'Cold Night' for my music video.

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I used this digital DSLR  in the research and planning stage to produce my photographic storyboard and during the production stages, to shoot my music video and take photographs for my ancillary products.

I used this camera for both because I already have experience with it so I know how to use it in manual mode. So I could experiment with the aperture, focus and shutter speed.

My DSLR allowed me to film at 60fps so this enabled me to get good quality footage also filmed in HD 1080p.

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What is Survey Monkey?

Survey Monkey is an online survey development website that allows individuals to create free, customizable surveys.
I used Survey Monkey in the research and planning stage to produce a survey asking whatpeople wanted to see in my music video and what type of decisions I should make.

The online survey was a good way to get feedback because it was filled in by a wide variety of individuals rather than people in the same area as me.

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What is Prezi?
Prezi is an online presentation programme that can be used to present information and make it interactive to the viewer. I used Prezi because it made my text heavy research much more interesting to read.

I first used it for in the Research and Planning stage when I researched the Rock and Indie music genre's.
I used this rather than Microsoft Powerpoint because I knew that I would need to use Powerpoint later on in the task therefore I wanted to use an alternative format instead of repeating my formats too much.

Prezi was also very practical to use because I could embed it straight away from the website into Blogger.

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Throughout the task I used Youtube to upload my music video, PowToon and Question 3 of my evaluation.

I also used Youtube to research existing music videos. Artist specific, You Me At Six and genre specific, Alternative Rock.

Additionally, I used youtube when I produced the 9 frame analysis'.

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Created using PowToon -- Free sign up at http://www.powtoon.com/join -- Create animated videos and animated presentations for free. PowToon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch, nonprofit fundraiser, product launch, video resume, or anything else you could use an animated explainer video.

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I used an online website called PowToon to create an interactive video of the 'Outline of A2 Task'. An online video is visually interesting.

However, the PowToon website wouldn't let me export it straight to Blogger so I had to upload it to YouTube then embed the video link into Blogger.

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PicMonkey is an easy to use editing website where you can create simple JPEG files that look visually interesting.

I used PicMonkey to present my more text heavy research on.

I used the website throughout all stages of my coursework because it is a very quick formatting method to do.

There are lots of variables to work with on the website in order to make each image look unique and different such as overlays, textures, fonts and effects. I did use PicMonkey a lot throughout the coursework however I kept it looking interesting by altering these variables.

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I used blogger throughout all of the stages of my coursework. I used the blogger platform to present my portfolio on. Blogger is an easy to use, interactive platform which helped to make my coursework easy to navigate and look professional.

It includes information of when i uploaded my blog posts which helps me to shop the examiner that I can keep to deadlines and I am organised.

I decided to use blogger because I used it to present my AS portfolio on too, so I already knew how to use and navigate the website and I was comfortable with the software.

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What, when, how and why have you used new media technologies during the coursework task?

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What, when, how and why have you used new media technologies during the coursework task?

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New media technologies are new media platforms and advances within technology. They are often smaller, cheaper than other technologies. I have used new media technologies in my coursework to collect and present my process on.

I had to choose the appropriate new media technologies to present the information for each different stage.

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

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