Megan brant

Digital technology from AS to A2 work, examples and impact. What you are trying to achieve for your audience and how did digital technology help?

When I started my AS coursework I had previous experience from GCSE media where we had to create a magazine. This allowed me to bring my skills in my AS work however not my A2 work. In A2 when we started creating our music videos I had never used any of the programs before, for example premiere and after effects, this meant that I had to watch tutorials and work out how to use it myself with little help from the teachers. In AS we started using a new program called InDesign which we had never used before as in GCSE we used Photoshop to create our magazines, using the software wasn’t hard to get used to as it was very simple and easy to work out. InDesign will also became very useful in A2 as after we create our video we have to create a digipak of a album and a poster advertising the album. Creating this on InDesign is a lot easier than creating it on Photoshop as you create all the documents on sheet as you can add pages etc.

Before we started any of the main task we had to create a blog where we would put all our research and planning tasks leading up to creating the magazine/ music video. This was a new website that I had to use but got the hang of it quickly as it is simple and easy to work. Blogs are a good place to store all your work as it is hard to accidently to delete work and means you don’t have to waste paper by printing out everything.

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