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NIKON D5200

I used my camera to shoot the video footage for my music video and take all the images for my ancillary texts. Thi9s helped me to use HD footage which aids verisimilitude as genuine music videos and promotional features for bands would have high quality images and HD video footage.

PHOTOSHOP CS5

I used Photoshop CS5 to edit the images used for my ancillary texts This helped me to make them more dynamic. I put a white layer behind a lot of the images and reduced the fill of the main image to 70% to give the images a 35mm effect as most images for contemporary alternative rock bands use 35mm camera so this helped me to follow codes and conventions of genre more closely.

FINAL CUT PRO X

I used Final Cut Pro X on the college Macs to edit my video footage to create my music video. I used this software over iMovie because it is more professional which enabled me to use a wider range of transitions and effects. I found the software easy to use after a few hours of practice.

GOOGLE AND WIKIPEDIA

For my planning and research I used Google and Wikipedia to gather information about alternative rock bands and conventions of genre.

SLIDE SHARE

I used SlideShare to put my PowerPoint documents online. This allowed me to make presentations for my planning stages.

YOUTUBE

I used YouTube in my planning and research process to look for existing music videos. I also used YouTube to upload my music video drafts and Evaluation question 2 as for that I gathered a few people from the media department and asked them to watch and review my video and ancillary texts.

BLOGGER

I put all of my work onto Blogger, a blogging service Ran by Google. It helped me to link my videos to YouTube because that is also ran by Google. I Found the blog very easy to use as it had a very user friendly interface.

SOCIAL MEDIA

I put my products on Facebook and asked for feedback from my peers. This helped with audience feedback as it allowed me to know how people who don’t study media see my video. I made a twitter account for the artist that I used to allow self promotion.