The digital technologies that we have used in our media products over the past two years are, final cut, garageband, photoshop, the internet - youtube, blogger, google etc.
One of the technologies that we used was garageband, we used this for our thriller film to create a backing track for the opening. An advantage of using garageband to do this is that there is a good range of sounds to use and it is easy to use with lots of tools to make it sound good. A disadvantage of garageband is that the sounds can be quite restrictive - as although there is a large range of sounds there are not that many that were suitable for our thriller and those that were all sounded similar meaning we couldnt be as creative with the soundtrack.
Another technology we used was photoshop, we used this to create our digi-paks and posters for our music video. We used photoshop to change the brightness, cut parts of the photos add text and change the effects of the photo. An advantage of photoshop is that for the poster we wanted to include text to give information about the "cd single" for example the name of the artist, release date and where to buy it and photoshop allowed us to do this. A disadvantage of photoshop is that it can be quite hard to use and get used to - some of the effects took us a while to do and it can take quite a long time to get the finish you want.
We used the internet in the research and planning sections for each of our media products. We used google to find out the codes and conventions of music videos, thrillers and childrens films, to research about different genres etc. We used youtube to look at other videos from previous years and real music videos/thriller openings.
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