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We used the website called Shirtinator and another website to customise sweatshirts, t-shirts and  accessories for our merchandise. We used these two websites for the simple products such as the sweatshirts and the mugs, but because of the limit on colour and font, we had to use Photoshop to edit the t-shirts.

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We used Adobe Fireworks CS6 to edit the photos that we took when we did photo shoots and the pictures we wanted to use for our merchandise. We used the magic wand tool to get rid of the white background on our pictures, which meant that we could place the pictures onto other layers without having a white box around it.

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We used Slide share to present the construction/journey of our website and digi pak. This made our presentation easier to read.

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For our music video we wanted a scene were Soraya had images projected onto her. To do this we edited a short video together of what we wanted to be projected onto her and used one of the schools projectors to project the images. The projector was easy to use but we needed a laptop that we could access the schools Wi-Fi on to access the video, which made filming time restricted. Also, because we needed electricity to power the projector we were restricted to where we could film as we needed access to a plug socket near to where we were filming.

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We used a Sony camera recorder to record our music video, prelim tasks and our banana phone task . The camera recorder was easy to use and due to its small size we were able to take it to our filming locations with no hassle. To make sure the shots that we took were not shaky, we used a tripod. By using the tripod we could move the camera recorder around so that we could film shots with a smooth movement.

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We used Soraya's Camera to film some of the shots for our music video and to take some of the pictures for our digi pak. We used her camera because her camera films and takes pictures in a better quality compared to the schools camera and our iPhones. This meant that our digi pak and some of the shots in our music video look clearer than are other pictures and videos.

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Another social media that we used was Instagram. We found Instagram easy to use as it is a social media based on posting pictures. However, it was not as usefull as Facbook and Twitter because we could not share informations without a picture. This meant that we were restricted to what we could post on Soraya's instgram page because we needed a photo to go with the post.

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We also created a Twitter account. This was a useful social media account to have as a lot of people have an account on it. Twitter allowed us to tweet updates on events, post pictures and videos quickly. This meant that we could inform Soraya's fans about updates quickly and easily and make them feel connected to Soraya.

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We created a page for Soraya on Facebook so that she could have a social media presence. Facebook allowed us to upload pictures, videos and statuses, which allowed us to keep Soraya's fans up-to-date with what Soraya is doing. We used this page on our website by creating a link from Soraya's website to her Facebook page, making her Facebook page easily accessible to her fans.

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For my music video I used Premiere to cut and edit the videos that me and my group took and placed them in the order that we wanted them to be in. I also used the video effects called "brightness and contrast", "three-way colour corrector". I used the three-way colour corrector to alter the colours on the videos and to change the saturation of the colours von the videos. We also used the reverse speed special effect to reverse some of our videos and the speed effect to slow down some videos to create a slow motion and rewind effect in our music video. Another special effect we used was the emboss tool, which create a colour overlay effect to our music video.

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To edit our photos, make our digi pak and to create our merchandise we used the software Adobe Premiere CS6. We found this software useful because it gave us all the tools and effects that we needed such as contrast, colour balance, the clone tool and the colour replacement tool, enabling us to make our photos from our photos shoots look professional. It also allowed us to overlay photos, helping us achieve our mirror effect poster that distorts the viewers eyes. This helped us to link our poster to our albums name VISION. The only problem with this software was that if we wanted to do complex special effects or use new tools that we haven't used before we had to search on YouTube how to use the tools and effects. This meant that it took a long time to achieve what we wanted to achieve,

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We used to create our artist's website because it gave us all the right tools that we needed to create a website that had all the functions that a real website has. Wix allowed us to create different pages, add links to social media and other websites, add pictures and videos, add gallery's and add social media sections to our website, such as an Instagram feed. It also allowed us to create a store where we could upload all the merchandise that we made and our CD front cover. This made our website look more realistic and professional. However, we did have a few problems when using Wix which were the following:

- Due to copyright we were unable to upload our song to the Wix music player or the Souncloud music player. This meant that our music page looks incomplete.

- Another problem was that there was only a few fonts that were available to use. This meant that we were unable to use a font for the text on the website that matched the font we used on our merchandise, poster and digi pak, making our website look different by not carrying on the theme.

- We wanted to have an Amazon button on our home page but Wix did not have a button like its iTunes button. This meant that we had to edit a photo of the Amazon button using Adobe Fireworks CS6 to get rid of the white background. However, when we uploaded the picture onto Wix to create a button, the white background reappeared. This meant that the button stands out from the rest of the buttons and doesn't look professional.
http://gbhsasissyblogspot.wix.com/-soraya

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Technology Used In The Construction Stage

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Technology Used In The Construction Stage