Research and planning
I have used
a lot of different Internet sites and programs to help me progress through this course, a
few are: blogger, YouTube, Makeagif and many others. Blogger.com was pretty
much home base during this project as it is where we saved all of our work that
we did whilst at home and in class, this is where all of the planning and
research for our music video is located. It was a very useful tool as it was
able to hold multiple platforms of different media so I was easily able to
store all of my work in the same place, making it easy to access and to locate.
YouTube was one of the largest contributors to the completion of my thriller as
it was largely beneficial to all of the different stages. This was especially
good for research as I was able to access a large library of different medias
to get ideas for my thriller. Also I discovered a lot of videos demonstrating
how to use other software's and how to use different techniques, which I found
really helpful. So overall this piece of software has been extremely influential
and helpful. Make a gif was also another
internet site that help in doing the blogger side of the coursework, allowing
me to put in little snippets of something that I was explaining.
Construction
There have been multiple different types of hardware devices i have used throughout this course is a camera and tripod, these two components were essential to completing our thriller piece. The camera was not only used to help to do our music video it also helped to complete things such as the storyboard as we had to take pictures. These two components were a nice asset to having better quality in our music video, although useful , the tripod wasn't essential.
Software
Throughout the use of different software's i have pick up many different skills, from learning how to actually operate them to being able use the advanced parts of the software itself. There are multiple different software's that have been used throughout the course however the main ones consisted of premier pro and Photoshop. Adobe premier pro was the most essential software to the course as it allowed us to actually construct our final music video. However there was a lot of work that has to go into learning how to actually use the software which i did manage to grasp quickly. Using premier pro we were able to edit clips gathered off of the camera, into the order that we wished for it to be. We only used Photoshop to help use create our advert and our digipak. 
So as you can see over the course i have develop a lot of different skills and techniques from the teachers on how to properly used the hardware, software and the internet sites listed above. Especially in things such of editing as I did edit a lot of past work and or music video. So from my progression through the course is evident that I have attained new skills and have adapted to using them effectively.
