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We used a Samsung monitor to play-back shots we took on the day or previously in the studio.
PROS:
We were able to watch back footage on the day and see what was/wasn't working before it was too late.
We could constantly check everything was in focus.
CONS:
Sometimes we would find that Ella and Jack were looking at the monitor instead of into the camera so we had to turn it away sometimes, out of their view.

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We were very lucky to be able to use a sound desk for the first time for all of us I think. We used the sound system to play our track full blast on studio filming days.
PROS:
The performer felt more comfortable singing when the track was played as loud as it was. The lip-syncing, as a result, turned out much more believable.
CONS:
There were no cons!

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We used ARRI big studio floor lights for our studio shots and used the lighting desk to control the coloured ceilling lights.
PROS:
We were so lucky to have both of these old, physical technologies in our music video. They made our production 10 times more professional than it could have been.
They were very simple to use once Emma (our technician) had explained how it's done.
They were so fun to use and gave us limitless opportunities of what we could do with them.
We could save lighting settings to use the next day, or whenever we wanted.
CONS:
It did take up a lot of our first shoot day setting up lighting as it needed to be right; we could not compromise as that would have had a huge effect on our project.

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We used this camera to take our studio promo shots AND film all our studio shots. It is an item of old, physical technology
PROS:
It is a camera of extreme picture quality - a professional camera which we were able to use free of charge.
I learnt a lot of skills that will be useful to me in the future such as effectively lighting a shot using only the camera settings and focusing in on your performer.
CONS:
As it is a manual camera, the zooms must be manual also. When zooming in with the camera on a trip-pod, one can only zoom in a straight line; you are not able to move from high to low for example. When you take the camera off the tripod, it becomes jolty as it is now handheld-this is an issue we had to work with.

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We used photoshop to  create our: Logo, Album digipak and to edit photos.
PROS:
We all had experience with photoshop so could get started straight away.
It provides endless options of ways to edit and create images that are industry level in quality.
It's relatively quick to use.
Allowed us to create more depth to our images and manipulate current images so they look completely unrecognisable against the original image.
CONS:
It can be difficult to use and I had to ask for a good amount of help!
Images created can sometimes look of a low level and quality if you don't pay attention to detail.

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We used Premier to edit our entire music video.
PROS:
Having used it several times before, we were all familiar with it and what it allowed us to do.
We could also grade using this programme which was useful to have it all made on one programme.
It was free for us because the school had bought it once as a package and no more fees were needed.
It is relatively straight-forward to use but has an industry finish to it (used in the media industry aswell).
CONS:
Rendering was often a long-winded process of waiting around.
Most of the time, it's a one-person job. When there are 3 group members (like we had), 2 people often end up sitting around watching, giving the occasional direction, approval or disapproval.
It is time consuming and can only be done at school - a lot of free time had to go into it.

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Wix is the website creator we used. It is a form of new technology and is based online.
PROS:
It is incredibly simple to use and even offers templates of websites for you to just add your personal information on to (which we used).
It can be used on any device, at any time, anywhere and by anyone. This was amazing because all of us could work on it using the same account so long as we coordinated who would be using it at what time.
It was fun to use and satisfying when it all started to come together as it looked very professional.
IT'S FREE!
CONS:
Although it was fun and easy to use, there were small problems with the slow response of the site when you instructed it to do things. This slow delay time did unfortunately stay with the website when users tried to navigate around.

However, I think the pros definitely out-weighed the cons and we were so lucky to be part of a generation that had this site available to us...instead of having to learn website coding!

(click on the image below to view our website)