1. Final cut pro x
InDesign
Prezi
Instruction Booklet
Powtoon
SLIDESHARE
Photoshop

2. Final Cut Pro X
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Face’, were:
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Selection Tools:
Selection Tool
Group Selection Tool
Range Selection Tool
View Tools:
Zoom In
Zoom Out
Image Modifiers:
1. Crop
2. Transform
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Edit Tools:
Razor Blade
Speed Up
Slow Down
Trim
Position

3. SELECTION TOOLS:
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‘Select’ tool is used for basic editing, selecting clips, basic trims, adjusting audio
and more. This shortcut to this key is keyboard letter “A”.
Range Selection: the Range Selection allows you to add a range to a Storyline. You
can adjust audio, delete clips, export a selection, and more. Keyboard shortcut “R”.
Group Selection: When adding clips to your storyline, holding shift and selecting
all the footage you want allows you to create a group selection.
An example of where these tools have been used:
In the short film, ‘Say it to my Face’ directed by Lilly Thomas and Tom
Roalfe, the editing software used was Final Cut Pro X. They used these
selection tools for their basic editing of the production, to adjust their
audio ensuring it matched throughout the documentary, and that all
interviewee’s had the same level of volume. Their first draft of audio
was not to the standard they wanted, so the use of selection tools
proved extremely beneficial. To trim parts of their footage, they made
use of the selection tools, this made the footage more
realistic, effective and professional as they could trim the parts of the
clip to what they wanted and to fit the timing. Range selection was
useful to them, as during their filming process, they noticed that not
everything the interviewee’s discussed was relevant for the
production, therefore using this tool to delete parts of their clips.

4. View Tools
1. Zoom in to the timeline by using the zoom slider. Or
press Command-Plus sign (+).
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Zoom Out of the timeline by using the zoom slider. Or press command-minus
sign (-).
An example of where these tools have been used:
In the production, ‘Say it to my Face’, Thomas and Roalfe used the zoom in and out
tools to make their product more accurate. By adjusting the view of their film, they
were able to ensure every point of their product was efficient and trimmed to
perfection. By zooming in on their timeline they could expand the range of time they
could see, therefore making it able for them to be more precise.

5. Image Modifiers:
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Crop: Select a clip in the timeline, choose ‘CROP’ from the bottom left corner in
the viewer.
Transform: The first tool we’ll take a look at is transform. Transforming allows you
to adjust the size, position, and rotation of a selected clip, it can be done by
selecting ‘TRANSFORM’ from the bottom left corner in the viewer.
An example of where these tools have been used:
These tools were used in the editing process of short film, ‘Say it to my Face’. Editors Lilly Thomas
and Tom Roalfe made use of the crop tool for removing unwanted areas of the sign held by a
teenager in Leicester, saying ‘WE CAN’ as the framing was not accurate enough. Crop then resizes
the cropped image so that it fills the screen.
The transform tool was used in the planning and research stages. When Roalfe and Thomas
practiced using the green screen, they had to transform an image onto a background using
chroma key. The image was then made smaller to fit on to the screen and display another image
behind it.

6. Edit Tools:
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Razor Blade is a tool used to cut clips making it possible to delete parts of the clip you do not want, and also to
move them to other areas of your production. It can be accessed by using keyboard letter “B”.
Speed Up is a tool used to make a clip a different speed. Select the video clip, click Command-R and
click, FAST, either 2x, 4x, 8x or 20x the speed.
Slow Down is a tool used to make a clip a slower speed. Select the video clip, click Command-R and
click, SLOW, either 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% slower than the regular speed.
Trim, choose the Trim tool from the Tools menu in the toolbar (or press T), then drag the clip left or right to
reduce or increase amount of clip.
Position Using the Position tool, select all the clips you want to move, then drag them to the left or right. This
automatically adds a gap between the selected and non-selected clips. This gap can be any duration you want.
An example of where these tools have been used:
In the short film, ‘Say it to my Face’, Roalfe and Thomas used the razor blade when
adding in their interview footage, to cut up parts of the clip they didn’t want. Such as in
their anonymous interview, during the filming process there was noise from just outside
the set which they could hear in parts of their footage, therefore they had to cut up their
footage to make sure that footage wasn’t in their production. In the screen grabs at the
beginning of comments on social networking sites, they used the speed up tool to display
the clips being replayed at faster speeds. The slow down tool was used in the black and
white montage footage of the park to display isolation, and the slow pace helped to
create emotion and made the footage feel more intense. Tom and Lilly used the position
tool due to their footage being filmed in a different order than the storyboard was
wrote, therefore when all the footage was filmed they had to drag different clips in
different areas to make the documentary effective and make sense.

7. PHOTOSHOP
The tools we used to create the poster of, ‘Say it
to my Face’ were:
1. Select/Deselect
2. Drop Shadow
3. Paint Bucket
4. Text Type
5. Move Tool
6. Magnetic Lasso Tool
7. Crop
8. Image Size
9. Change Font Colour
10. Brightness

8. Photoshop
• Myself, and Tom, had not had much experience working with Photoshop.
If we were to look back at GCSE, we used this software for our
coursework. Admittedly, I really struggled to use the software, and found
it extremely confusing. However, during my time as an A2 student, me and
Tom have grown to love Photoshop, we found the software extremely
creative, and interesting to use. Despite not knowing how to use many of
the tools, we were extremely willing to learn how, spending much time
watching tutorials and reading article’s on Photoshop, and I am now happy
to say when we created our film poster I found it simple, yet effective and
feel our final product is a success, and we have made good use of the tools
available.

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Select/Deselect, press the Esc key (upper-left corner of your keyboard).
Drop Shadow, use the drop shadow dialogue box and use the sliders to decide how much you want.
The Opacity slider allows you to specify how transparent your shadow will be. A setting of 0% is
completely see through while 100% is completely opaque.
Paint Bucket tool fills an area of an image based on colour similarity. Click anywhere in the image and
the paint bucket will fill an area around the pixel you clicked.
Text Type, to insert text into your document, simply click on the Type tool icon on your toolbox and
click on the area of your document where you want to insert text.
Move tool, allows you to move a selection or entire layer by dragging it with your mouse or using your
keyboard arrows keys. The move tool is located at the top right of the Photoshop Toolbox.
Magnetic Lasso Tool is one of three lasso tools in Photoshop. Can be found behind the standard Lasso
Tool in the Tools panel. To access it, click and hold your mouse button down on the Lasso Tool until a
menu appears, then select the Magnetic Lasso Tool from the list.
Crop tool allows you to select an area of an image and discard everything outside this area. The tool is
located third from the top in the Photoshop Toolbox, on the left side.
Image Size In Photoshop, you can see the relationship between image size and resolution in the Image
Size dialog box, choose Image then choose Image Size. Deselect Resample Image, because you don’t
want to change the amount of image data in your photo. Then change width, height, or resolution.
Change Font Colour, click the text tool, a text toolbar will appear at the top of the screen, click the box
that appears to reveal the colour palette, then select the colour of font you prefer.
Brightness, Go to the "Image" option at the top left side of the screen on the menu bar. Choose
"Image" then "Adjustments" and lastly "Brightness and Contrast." Click on this option. A dialogue box
will open. Adjust the brightness of the picture by sliding the arrow back and forth. Moving it to the left
makes the picture darker, while sliding it to the right makes the picture brighter. Choose the desired
brightness and then proceed to contrast. Adjust the contrast of the picture by sliding the arrow on the
histogram back and forth, the same way you do when adjusting the brightness of the picture.

10. An example of where these tools on Photoshop have been used:
“SAY IT TO MY FACE”, FILM POSTER.
The image of the subject has been resized to scale over the background leaving an
equal amount of space around it and remaining central. Resizing the image to a
smaller scale has helped to create the main focal point of the film poster, displaying
iconography of the internet, such as the laptop, reiterating on the genre of
cyberbullying.
Changing the font colour on
the institutional information
helps make it visible to the
audience. To keep brand
identity we wanted to use the
colour of white for our
font, however when we first
typed it was black, therefore
we had to use the change font
colour tool to use white.
The text type tool has been used
here to type the institutional
information, and the quotes. This
tool has helped meet conventions of
film posters and also proved useful
at providing the information needed
for the audience.
The paint bucket tool has been used
here to fill in the blue background. This
tool has proved useful as it has helped
to create brand identity within the
product. The blue colour is iconography
of Facebook, and is also a prominent
part within our documentary, linking
the products and representing our
cyber-bullying genre through its
representation of social networking
sites.
Use of drop shadow on the picture helps to
emphasise importance of title. The effect
makes it stand out, it gives it a striking
approach, and despite its relatively small
font size, the title becomes a prominent part
of the film poster.
The magnetic lasso tool has been used
on the channel 4 logo here, to remove its
background and cut out all the edges.
This has made the logo more effective as
now it blends in more with the
poster, and matches the colours by
making the background visible through
it.

11. InDesign
The tools we used to create the poster of, ‘Say it to my Face’ were:
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Selection Tool
Page Tool
Type Tool
Line Tool
Erase Tool
Rectangle Tool
7. Rectangle Frame Tool
8. Eyedropper Tool
9. Hand Tool
10. Zoom Tool
11. Fill Colour
12. Direct Selection Tool

12. InDesign
• We had not had much experience with InDesign, as for our AS
coursework we created an opening sequence, and therefore
InDesign was not a necessary tool we had to use. However, for
the research and planning stages, we thought it would be a
good idea to use this software for some of the tasks. This
helped us to learn some of the basics which we then
developed during our time as A2 students.

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Selection Tool, lets you select entire objects. Can be found by typing V, Escape.
Page Tool, Page tool lets you create multiple page sizes within a document. You must open the pages
panel by going to Window > Pages. Within the pages panel click and hold on the second page and drag it
alongside the first page. When it is in the correct position a thick vertical line will appear indicating that it
is okay to release your click. Once the click has been released the second page will snap alongside the first
page.
Type Tool, can be found be selecting Shift + T. Type tool is used to add in any text to your product. A text
box is created and that is where your text can be typed, the font, size and colour can also be changed.
Line Tool, can be found be selecting the ‘/’ on your keyboard. This tool enables you to draw lines on your
product to the length and direction your want them. The sizing, shape and colour of your line can then be
adapted.
Erase Tool can be found by selecting (N) on your keyboard, which will give you a choice of pencil
tool, smooth pencil tool and eraser. The eraser can be used to remove any unwanted parts of your
product.
Rectangle Tool can be found by selecting (F) on your keyboard, it lets you create a square or rectangle
placeholder. This can be useful for the framing of your product.
Eyedropper tool, can be found by selecting (I) on your keyboard. This tool helps to identify another colour
on the InDesign project. By clicking the colour on the project you want to reuse, it saves the colour for
your use.
Hand Tool, can be found by selecting (H) on your keyboard. This tool moves the page view within the
document window.
Zoom Tool, can be found by selecting (Z) on your keyboard. Zoom tool increases and decreases the view
sizing through magnification in the document window.
Fill Colour, can be found by the Toolbox or in the Colour or Swatches panel, select the Formatting Affects
Text or Formatting Affects Container to determine whether colour is applied to the text or the text frame.
Direct Selection tool, can be found by selecting keyboard letter (A), it allows you to select the contents of
a frame, such as a placed graphic, or work directly with editable objects, such as paths, rectangles, or type
that has been converted to a text outline.

14. An example of where these tools on InDesign have been used:
“SAY IT TO MY FACE”, film review.
Our review is a double page
spread, therefore the page
tool was useful as it helped us
to create multiple pages
within our document.
The small dotted
lines were creating
using the line tool.
We were able to
draw lines to the
length of the whole
page in the direction
we wanted, we feel
this makes our
review look more
structured and
organised.
The Text Type tool
was key for our
review, as it needed
contain a large
amount of text. The
tool created a text
box which helped to
create a
guideline, we were
then able to change
our font colour to
black and font to
Times New Roman
to meet our house
The eye dropper tool was used to
make the colouring of the quote
font, brand identity with
iconography of Facebook. This
helped display the genre of our
documentary.
The selection tool has been
useful as it made us able to
move pictures and text
around as an entire
object, helping to structure
the layout of our film
review.
The whole framing of
our product was created
using the rectangle tool.
To make our magazine
appeal to opinion
leaders, we needed a
sophisticated style, so
this tool proved
beneficial in providing
us with a refined
structure.
The direct selection
tool was useful as it
helped us in
organising where to
place of photo’s, and
enabled us to work
directly with the
editable sizing.

15. SLIDESHARE…
It is simple to use and can be
embedded onto WordPress with
one link.
SLIDESHARE is a useful online sight
where you can upload PowerPoint
presentations online to be viewed.
We had already had some practice with Slideshare from our AS coursework research and
planning. We found this the easiest form of presentation, as myself and Tom enjoy
making PowerPoint's as we feel they a good ways of presenting plenty of information.
Slideshare is easy to use, this helped save time, particularly with tight deadlines.

16. Remember These…?
These are some examples of the Slideshare’s we
uploading during our planning and research stages. We
found this form of presentation useful, simple and
effective. It enables you to provide plenty of
information, but still present your work in a eyecatching and conspicuous way.

17. How to upload onto Slideshare…
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Simple ‘SAVE’ your PowerPoint presentation into your documents.
Then select, upload in the top right corner of Slideshare, on slideshare.net.
Then by clicking the upload option, your file begins uploading, and you can add in
information and titles.
HOWEVER! Be careful, due to its easy uploading style, it is likely you will become carried
away with using this form of presentation, ensure you do not overuse this.

18. Prezi
• Prezi is certainly more difficult and an advanced way of
presenting your work, we used this during the research and
planning stages of our coursework..

19. Remember any of these from
back to our planning and
research…?
We found Prezi an effective way of
presenting our research, as the template
designs were creative. Experimenting with
different fonts and colours gave us early
experience for when we were to try
different styles for our products. Prezi is a
difficult online presentation sight to use, it
takes some working-out, however, we did
use this programme during our AS
coursework. This proved to be helpful as we
had developed many skills from this already.
We had trouble embedding some of our
Prezi’s onto WordPress, therefore we had to
screen shot a photo of the Prezi and insert a
link to it.

20. How to create a Prezi document.
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Begin by selecting, ‘New Prezi’.
You will then view a selection of templates, chose one you feel best works
for your topic and layout, then select ‘Use Template’.
Depending on your template a different number of text templates will
appear. To type text, simply select the template that appears and begin
typing. Font, font colour and sizing can be changed by highlighting the text
and using the tool bar the pops up, where these options appear.
To insert images into a Prezi, click "Insert" in the toolbar, then choose
"Image." If you'd like to find an image from Google, type a search term into
the field below.
If your Prezi will be used commercially, check the box below to limit your
search to images licensed for commercial use.
Click the search button, scroll through the options, and click "Insert" when
you find an image you like.
To add files from your computer, click "Select files" then select the image
you want to add.
You can add JPG, PNG, or GIF images to your presentation.

21. Powtoon…

22. PowToon.
• We only discovered PowToon during our
evaluation stages, it has proved to become a
good way of presenting our work, and we feel
its different and quirky style helps to
presentation of our coursework.

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Once you get to PowToons homepage, you will need to create a log in
ID, which can be done through Facebook.
After this is done, click the ‘Start Creating Awesome PowToon’s button’.
A menu will appear, your must select a template and name your video.
You will then view a PowerPoint style view, and your presentation can
begin taking place.

24. Steps to be taken:
1. Choose a style from the ‘My Style’s’ tab in the
tool bar.
2. Choose a background for your video using the
‘Backgrounds’ tab.
3. Select ‘T’ on your keyboard to begin typing, to
change style, font or colour select the ‘Text
Effects’ box from the tool bar.
4. Props, characters and markers can be animated
by clicking on your object and selecting on of
the styles from the pop-up menu.
5. Music can be added by exporting a music file
saved on your computer by clicking the ‘import’
button on the top of your page.