1. Question 4
How did you use new media
technology in the
construction and research,
planning and evaluation
stages

2. What is new media?
 New media is a new way to access
content such as film and games over the
internet any time and any place. Games
consoles and laptops which are capable
of allowing the people to watch abroad
in other countries too. During my work I
have included different types of new
media devices that I used.

3. Prezi part 1
 I have used Prezi which is an online
presentation website which lets you make
your presentation 3 dimensional and have
nice animations in between slides. The reason
I have used this was because using Wix (slide
5) on everything will have been boring and
not interesting to go through but because
Prezi is available this lets the audience have a
more better experience using 3D animations
between slides.

4. Prezi part 2
 Looking at text throughout the presentation would
be boring, even with images it would still look
boring because of the static feeling that all it does
is goes from one slide to another. Prezi allows me
to flow through the slides as if the slides are all in
one place. By having a path way through the
slides with images and text flying past it gives a
much better user experience and it allows you to
express your message much more clearly. Adding
Prezi to the Wix page was simple to, all you had to
do was copy and paste the code with Prezi’s
embedded HTML.

5. Sony Vegas/iMovie part 1
 When I finished my recording, the next step
was to edit the footage and I did this by using
Sony Vegas a professional editing software
instead of iMovie which was on the iMacs. The
reason I had chosen Sony Vegas over iMovie
was because when I tried to add special
effects such as lighting effects it was not
possible and I had better experience with
Sony Vegas because of previous editing
experiences.

6. Sony Vegas/iMovie part 2
 Using Sony Vegas I had to collect the
footage and create a music video which
had to have performance and narrative in
it. Due to the problems I was having with
iMovie I chosen to go with Sony Vegas
and edit on there. This led me to make
different types of effects and I made sure I
would create the video as good to my
ability as I could.

7. Wix part 1
 Wix was the website I used to store all of the
work which I have created during the tasks.
Wix is an internet website which allows you to
create your own blog like page. It can be
viewed by anyone who knows the link or has
found it online. Benefits of using Wix is that it is
useful for when you are presenting your work
such as pictures, it allows you to make a
gallery of images and put it inside one of your
pages.

8. Wix part 2
 Another benefit of using Wix was that it
makes the work look more exciting and
less of a normal website for example a
word document on a website. It allows
you to place images everywhere so you
can make it more eye opening. It also
allows to embed links for example
YouTube which I have embedded my
music video with.

9. Green screen
 During my research tasks we had to test out the
green screen in which we had to show that we
had the ability to use it. A green screen is a piece
of green or blue sheet behind the artist or an
object and it allows you to put a background
behind the artist or object. The way we tested this
equipment out was with a song playing and we
had to lip sing the song and have a appropriate
background, for example my green screen test
was with a hip hop song and we included a
recording studio behind it. I have not used the
green screen in my final video because I wanted
to use the streets and the city with the lights more
than a fake background.

10. Photoshop part 1
 When the filming and editing of the music
video was finished we then had to create the
ancillary tasks and these had to be done on
Photoshop. Photoshop is a piece of software
which allows you to create and edit images
from their original piece. I have used this
program with my ancillary task and I have
create a black background behind my artist
and made his hand as clear as possible while
behind his hand it was blurry, so that it gives
the effect of the camera lens.

11. Photoshop part 2
 Photoshop allowed me to add images and text in
any which way I wanted which also let me
change the colours of the images and text with
the Hue and Saturation tool in which was not
useful for me because I wanted to make the
colours as realistic as possible. I already had
Photoshop skills before I did this task and this let me
expand my knowledge with this task because it
allowed me to create something different to what
I did before. When I had finished editing the
images and the text I would add them into the CD
template and make the CD album cover and I
have added all the conventional aspects of a CD
cover into my work.

12. Camera
Ihave used the camera that the school
supplied us with and this led me to make
my movie, but because I was not satisfied
with the quality of the footage I decided
to use my mobile phone which was
capable of recording in 720p and this
allowed me to create a better and more
professional looking music video.

13. Computer
 Thecomputer I used was a Windows
Machine at home for which I used to edit
my footage on Sony Vegas and I used the
iMacs and my computer for the Wix
website. The reason I used my own
computer was because the Macs did not
have the Sony Vegas software and this
did not allow me to do what I wanted
with the special effects.