Evaluation Question 4

Technologies

Throughout this project we have all used lots of different software/hardware and websites complete certain tasks. Each of these has provided its own unique functions and has somehow helped us to improve our project and make certain things possible here is all of the programs/technologies we have used and how we have used them.

Websites

- http://www.blogger.com/http://www.blogspot.com; This is a website which allows users to create a blog were they can create posts and share there thoughts with the world. We used this site so that we could post all of work online and keep track of it. By using a blog we were able to edit posts and use and easily add resources off our computers.

- http://www.youtube.com/; This is a site to upload and watch videos it is a great website and use by millions of users. We used this site to analyse other videos for research and to upload our own videos so that they could be watched by other and shown on other websites (e.g. facebook)

- http://www.vimeo.com/; This is a similar site to YouTube however it is less popular but equally as affective for uploading videos. We also used this site to upload of video so people who don't use YouTube could watch it and hopefully we could gain more feedback

- http://www.animoto.com/; This is a site where you can create short videos using media you have already stored on your computer it also has built in affects which allow you to create a professional looking video. We used this site to create our pitch because it is a great way to combine lots of media (pictures, music and text).

- http://www.scribd.com/; This site allows you to upload word documents and turn them into a virtual document where you view it as a picture but you can still navigate through the document and select text etc. e used this to upload most of the work we had created in Microsoft word.

- http://www.myspace.com/; This is a social networking site that allows users to communicate with lots of other people online it is also a great place for keeping track of artist. We used this website to help advertise our artist.

- http://www.facebook.com/; This is a similar site to Myspace but it is more popular and not really used for music. We used this site to communicate with each other and to gain feedback for our videos.

- http://www.twitter.com/; This site allows people to post short messages usually of what there doing at the time and broadcast it to the world other users can they follow the person to get updates from them. We also used this site to help advertise our artist.

- http://www.slideshare.net/; This website is similar to scribd in the way it allows you upload documents so they can be converted into a  format where they can be viewed on websites, however this site is mainly for power points. We used this site to upload our power points to our blog.

- http://www.bbc.co.uk/; This is a news/TV website which has information on almost everything latest news, sport weather etc. We used this site so we could look at the weather to help us decide when to film.

- http://www.wikipedia.co.uk/; This website is an online encyclopaedia is has information on almost everything and we also used this to advertise our artist so people could help find out about him and his background.

- http://www.google.co.uk/; This is a search engine which will produce results for most searches made. We have used this site to find images for our research and to help us find everything we have needed to create our video.

Hardware

- Computer; We have used a computer for almost all of the tasks for our music video we have sued is to visit all of the websites and also to edit our music video.

- Mobile Phones; We have used our mobile phones as a means of communication between each other and also to take pictures of our filming, locations artist etc.

- Panasonic Video Camera; This is the video camera that we all decided to use to film our music video.

Software

- Camtasia Studio; This is software that allows you to record what is happening on you screen (screen capture) we used this software to record our editing and also to get some clips for our research.

- Adobe Photoshop CS2;  This is software that can be used to edit pictures and to change them to how you want them to look. We used this software to edit pictures mainly the ones for our album cover but we also made some pictures for our research and to help make our work easier to understand.

- Sony Vegas Pro (8.0); This is a professional editing software which we used to edit our entire video after filming it.

- Sony DVD Architect Studio Pro; This is a software that allows you to get video files off your computer and burn them to disc we used this software to burn our video to disc.

- Microsoft Office; We used this software to create all of the work we couldn't complete on blogger, this software includes Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power point and a few other software's but we did not use those.