Adobe Photoshop

• Photoshop was the programme that I used to make my adverts and digi-pack

• It allowed me to edit the images I took to use for the album covers and adverts

• It also allowed me to add text and other images (record label logo) to the photos that I took

• The following slides show how I have created some of the affects on my images

To get this particular effect on this image firstly there needs to be two layers of the image(can be seen in the bar on the right of the screen shot), secondly one of the picture has to be desaturated making it black and white. Thirdly I selected the black and white image and rubbed out the bits that I wanted in red giving the effect below.

This shows how I desaturated the image layer

To make the text stand out on the spine I used drop shadow and outer glow. This gave it a yellow outline making it easier to read

To get the red text to stand out in this image I used drops shadow once again. But to get the image in the back to look as it does I spent time experimenting with the hue and saturation of the image till I was happy with how it looked.

The below screen shot shows the effect on the image on the right. The image bottom right was the final image I used, for this one I desiderated the image again but rubbed out the colour to get the black and white to show.

Sony Vegas Pro

• I used Vegas to put my video together.

• It allowed me to edit the video clips I had filmed and put the whole of my music video together

• It also allowed me to add the music to the video

• The following screen shots show how I edited and used Vegas

This screen shot shows Sony Vegas when it is open. On the screen you see the video where your working, the bigger box to the left is the “explorer”, this is how I got all of the clips on to Vegas, but the clips have to be saved onto the computer before hand. The large and main part of the window at the bottom is where the clips go and where the editing happens.

To get the effect that I have in this shot the procedure was fairly simple yet the on screen picture is very effective.

For this I simply placed the clip of the guitar neck “on top” of the guitar body shot. But I decreased the opacity to 50% so that both could be seen clearly.

During most of the shots in the tunnel I have slowed the clips down to go with the music. As you can see in the screen shot there is the zig-zag line, this represents the speeding up (the zig-zags would be close together) or the slowing down (the zig-zagswould be wider[or as seen in the screenshot]). This can be done by holding Ctrl and left clicking at the end of a clip.

In the shot you can see the video is in the middle of a fade in/out (as the arcs replicate in the bottom picture). This is a good, easy and effective way of making a transition between shots and shot locations.

www.blogger.com

• Blogger is the website that I have used to post my video and video preparation, digi-packs, and the rest of my coursework

• www.wordle.net allows you to enter text into the allocated box and it picks out the most used words that were in the text and make them bigger

• The bigger the word the more times it has been used

• I used this in evaluation q3 so I could find out the main points in my feed back easier

• www.surveymonkey.net allows people to create surveys and questionnaires and post them on the internet

• The questionnaires/surveys are open the public and are anonymous

• I used it to find out what my potential target audience would want to see in my music video

• www.slideshare.com allows someone to upload a PowerPoint presentation onto the website

• It also allows people to embed them on the blogs and social networking sites

• I have use slideshare to put presentations on my blog, I will also use it for this evaluation question

• www.prezi.com allows the used to create an interactive presentation

• It can be more interesting for the audience as they can interact with it

• I used prezi for the second evaluation question as it was a different way of presenting and was easier to show images with the information

• Skydrive allows someone with a hotmail/microsoft account to store documents, pictures and files in what can only be described as an online hard drive that can be accessed anywhere on any computer by logging in

• I used this as I needed to put my digi-pack on the blog and it was too big an image to be able to email

• I have used youtube for a couple of things in this project

• I used it to watch music videos as part of my research

• I have also used it to upload my videos

PowerPoint

• This allows a presentation to be created much like this one

• I have used PowerPoint many times through this project as it is also an easy way of creating JPEG images as well as presentations.

Camera

• Fujifilm HS30 EXR (camera above) was the camera that I used to shoot my video and take the photos

• The camera is what Fuji call a bridge camera, this means is can take high definition photos and video, it also has a manual setting so that the focus can be used to create different effects