Hardware that I have used:
- Canon EOS 700D Camera
- EF S 18-55mm f/3.5 5.6 IS STM wide angled lens
- Tripod
- SD Card
- Samsung Galaxy S5 Phone
- Apple iMac
- Editing Suites
- HP Pavilion 15-p097TX Laptop
- A variety of wires and connectors
Software that I have used:
- Photoshop
- Sony Movie Studio 13 Platinum
- Final Cut Pro
- iMovie
- Windows 10
- Blogger
- Youtube
- Spotify
- Powtoon
- Goanimate
- Storyboard That
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- SurveyMonkey
Canon EOS 700D Camera & Wide Angled Lens
Description:
The Canon EOS 700D Camera is what I used to film my music video with. It is worth roughly £400.
Advantages:
The screen flips so that I could view what I was filming whilst filming myself. The quality of the camera is brilliant; footage recorded can be perfectly clear or unfocused at the touch of a button. It's very user friendly, and I understood how to use it very fast.
Disadvantages:
The battery doesn't last long, but luckily, I have many spare.
Apple iMac & Windows Laptop
Description:
The Apple iMac and Windows laptop are two separate pieces of hardware. During my use with both, there were by far many more glitches on the iMac than the laptop. Certain file types could not be opened on the iMac, which made working on my products very difficult.
Advantages:
They were both platforms for me to do my coursework, and they were very user friendly and made my work easier. The laptop was portable and therefore I could work in places without an open power source. They both have access to other pieces of software such as iMovie.
Disadvantages:
The Apple iMac was awful to use, things never saved where I wanted them to, and I ended up losing a lot of work.
SD Cards & Wires
Description:
I used SD cards and wires to transfer data from one piece of hardware to the next. Such as when transferring my music video footage from my camera to my laptop.
Advantages:
They are easy and simple to use. I experienced no problems when using SD cards and wires.
Disadvantages:
I had to use multiple SD cards because the ones I used were only 8GB, and couldn't hold all of my data.
Editing Suites
Description:
Editing suites are professional equipment used in the post-production of creating a product. I used them to edit my ancillary texts.
Advantages:
They feature many pieces of professional software that assisted in the creation of my products.
Disadvantages:
They have multiple screens, which made it difficult to edit as I'm not used to having more than one screen, however this gave me experience with professional hardware.
Adobe Photoshop
Description:
Adobe Photoshop is a piece of editing software used to enhance still images.
Advantages:
It has a variety of different tools and effects which aren't available on other pieces of still image editing software. The magic wand tool was especially helpful as it allowed me to remove white backgrounds from images easily. Some of the effects were very useful, such as levels, contrast/brightness, and invert.
Disadvantages:
Adobe Photoshop is not very user friendly. During AS, I had become accustomed to the software, however there were some features that I still didn't understand. Luckily there were many very helpful tutorials on YouTube to allow me to use Adobe Photoshop to it's full potential.
Movie Studio Vs iMovie Vs Final Cut Pro
Description:
These are three pieces of moving image editing software. They have many simeralities such as a multi-clip interface and video effects.
Movie Studio:
Movie Studio was the piece of editing software that I had used to edit my music video. It features a large amount of effects and tools to edit moving images. It is very easy to import and export. However, it is not very userfriendly, and it took me a long while before I fully understood how to use it's interface. Also, when editing clips, the preview screen was in a low resolution and was often had a lot of lag, and therefore it made it difficult for me to know if my clips were in sync with the music.
iMovie:
iMovie is very user friendly, it is easy to do a voice over and it features many effects to edit moving images. However, the only iMovie that I could use was iMovie for iPad, and therefore this made it a little awkward when transferring footage and files.
Final Cut Pro:
This is probably the worst software I have used. The effects that it has to offer are brilliant, however, when exporting my clips, it would always do it in the wrong format than what I had intended. This meant hours of editing were worthless because the file couldn't be exported in a format that can be uploaded to YouTube.
Microsoft Word & Powerpoint
Description:
Microsoft Word is used for creating documents such as letter and essays. Microsoft Powerpoint is a piece of presentation software and can be screenshotted and used as an image.
Advantages:
They are both very user friendly and feature a simple interface which is easy to understand. The tools and effects make these pieces of software very useful in creating things such as responses to evaluation questions.
Disadvantages:
None.
Blogger & YouTube
Description:
I have used Blogger and YouTube to upload my coursework to be assessed and graded.
Advantages:
They are both connected by Google, and therefore I can use one account for both, which makes linking from one to the other very easy. They are very user friendly.
Disadvantages:
Blogger and Youtube can not process every type of file, which made uploading work very difficult sometimes.
Powtoon, Go Animate & Storyboard That
Description:
These are pieces of software which I used for my planning, research and evaluation.
Advantages:
Each software featured simple tutorials that made using them very easy. My files could be saved in an online server so that I could go back to them at a later date, from different computer.
Disadvantages:
Since I only had a free membership to each of the services, I couldn't have access to most of the features available, which prevented me from being as creative as I could have been.
When using pieces of software such as Photoshop, I used tutorials on YouTube like the ones below. I found these very helpful when creating my products, as it allowed me to use each piece of software to it's potential and fully take advantage of it's features.
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