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Our group used our smartphones throughout the whole project, mainly during the research and planning and construction stages as we used a group chat on Facebook Messenger to communicate where and when we will be filming and who's bringing what equipment. This was very useful as sometimes there would be a change in plans or we would need to organise travel between us therefore having this quick and easy way to contact all of the group was very useful. Also, we used this to share images and ideas such as the CD or website if someone in the group wasn't there whilst we were doing it or to discuss different ideas for the music video and/or ancillary tasks. During the filming process of the music video, we used our phones to play the song in the background to ensure that I was singing in time with the music so that when we came to edit the music video it would be easy to put the music over the video and lip sync. As well as for the construction, we also used this for research and planning we collaborated through the group chat for tasks such as collecting audience research and feedback as we would go and collect a range and number of people and put our findings within the chat.

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We filmed the whole of our music video on the Nikon D3300 HD camera which allowed us to have the best quality footage therefore making it look official and professional. Using this camera also allowed us to export and render the music video in full 1080p. We used the auto setting for the majority of the footage as this allowed the camera to focus automatically reducing any focus problems we would have, if we needed to do close ups or extreme close ups we often put the focus into manual and in sport mode as this allowed us to get closer to the subject whilst still being in focus. We used the DSLR camera for the time lapse, which we changed the settings for an interval timer of 1 second per photo for 480 shots. We also took a video on the iPhone for the time lapse just as a back up in case the DSLR time lapse didn't work as we wanted as we hadn't done a time lapse before however we found that we didn't need to use this and used the time lapse from the DSLR as this looked better as it was the same quality and ratio as the rest of the music video.

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Web 2.0 has allowed us to create social media pages for our artist. We created a Twitter account and a Facebook page. This has allowed us to share content to the audience and fans of the artist, such as images during filming to keep fans updated, advertising merchandise, advertising the tour dates, links to our music video and where to buy the album e.g. link to website or iTunes. As well as, sharing content to current fans it also allows to create a larger fan base and the content to receive a larger audience therefore growing the fan base and therefore profits. Social media also allows for a community to form, and allows for discussion between the artist and fans such as comments, replies and sharing content. We also linked this social media sites to our website.

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Wix is a free online website that allows people to create their own websites through the use of a variety of templates. We used Wix purely for the construction stage of our website. Although we only had the free version therefore some features weren't accessible to us this wasn't an issue as we found that the free version had a multitude of features and tools which were perfect for what we wanted to create. The site allowed us to go beyond just creating a home page for our artist and allowed us to develop the site further therefore making it look more professional and official for example on our website we added links such as links to social media or YouTube for our music video, we also added merchandise for our artist which can be purchased off the website and also we added tour dates which can be responded to. Despite none of us previously having any experience of creating a website, Wix made this process very simple and easy although some aspects such as inserting tour dates we had issues with but we resolved this by creating a "BandsInTown" account and adding this to the website.

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The use of Adobe Photoshop can been seen throughout my project, for example within my research and planning stages I created a random CD cover to practice using the software as I hadn't really used Adobe Photoshop before I thought that this would be good practice to get used to the software and all of the tools available to ensure that the final project of our CD pack had a good final outcome. During the construction of the final CD pack for our chosen song and album we used adobe photoshop to edit our photos, using a template for the CD front, back and insert to ensure that they were the correct size to fit inside a CD. We used photos that we took when filming and edited them accordingly with the theme, we lowered saturation of images, cropped images, added effects and text using the same fronts and colours throughout to create a consistency so it would look professional. For the front cover I added effects directly in photoshop from the "effects" tab. As well as using Adobe Photoshop for our CD, we also used this once for editing our music video, we found an issue with 2 or 3 of clips that we filmed that the LED light was within the shots therefore we transferred these clips into Adobe Photoshop and used the cloning tool to get rid of the light by cloning the black background over the light in the shots therefore we didn't have to spend more time re-filming.

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I used Adobe Premiere Pro throughout, within the research and planning stages we created 2 practice piece music videos, a recreation task of "Happy" and a one minute music video of "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun," to edit these videos together we used Adobe Premiere Pro and using this software before creating the final production helped me to develop my skills using the software specifically for creating a music video for example practising lip syncing in time with the music altering colours and saturation appropriately and cutting clips in time with the music. From our AS production we also used this software, and we transferred some of the skills we learnt last year to this year for example colour correction and altering colouring appropriately for the mood also last year we used a lot of text and this year we also incorporated some text within our music video. During the construction of our final music video, we used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our music video. We used it to cut video in time with the music including the lip syncing, added effects such as the reverse effect, overlaid clips to create the superimposition effects, slow motion, altered and colour corrected the clips, we put together the 400+ images for the time-lapse within this software and shortened the duration to create the time-lapse effect, we also sped some clips to to ensure that they're in time with the music. Overall, Adobe Premiere Pro was  our only editing software we needed for our music video, generally the software worked successfully however sometimes we would encounter problems such as lagging and freezing resulting in some loss of work however we frequently saved our project as we were aware of this issue therefore it wasn't too much of a problem.

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Through my project, mainly within the research, planning and evaluation stages I have used a range of presentation software just a few for example are, Slideshare, Padlet, Mindmup, Blogger and Prezi. Using this range has allowed me to present information on my blog appropriately and what helps represent and display the post I am making, for example, the initial ideas for our music video I made a 'mindmup' as I believe that creating a mind map was better to present this information than other platforms. As well as this, it keeps my blog varied and interesting for the reader as not all blog posts are using the same software.

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YouTube is huge global video sharing platform allowing users to create, upload and share their content and also allows people to interact with this content though features such as comments, sharing and likes. This is just one of the many sites that have contributed to web 2.0 and changing the audience from passive to active users. Within our project we used YouTube a lot, for example within the research and planning stages I found tutorials on YouTube such as timelapse and lighting to help the filming stages go much more smoothly since we were aware of how to do these techniques. Another way in which I used YouTube in the research and planning stages was to research music video within this genre, electropop/indie rock to look at typical conventions such as mise-en-scene, camera shots and editing of these genres and how the music videos are typically constructed and presented to the audience this allowed for us to create a music video that was appropriate for the genre and would be something that the audience would accept and recognise. Our final product was uploaded to YouTube, the free video sharing website allows for anyone and everyone to see the music video therefore allowing the video to reach a wide range of audiences. This website is something which allows us to reach further than we previously would ever have been able to, allowing us to expand our knowledge quickly and easily and also share our content for free and easily.