How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

PhotoShop

To construct the ancillary tasks we used PhotoShop. It involved uploading the photos we had taken, in order to edit them.

To create the imagery that is used throughout our ancillary tasks, we used the 'cut-out' effect located on the PhotoShop software.

Here is an example of the 'cut-out' effect in action. It dulls the colours, but heightens the imagery as everything is less defined helping to create the bleak sense of isolation and abandonment we wanted to create.

We used the 'magnet tool' to extract the image seen here, as the original photo had a completely different background. I decided that in order to create the bleakness we wanted to imply in our title we needed a bleaker background, hence the background we completed the project with.

As we took the photo for our magazine advert on the green screen it was easier to replace the back ground. We still applied the same 'cut-out' effect to continue with our heightened imagery. We used the 'paint tool' to colour the instruments and chose the colours to match those used in the music video, as pointed out earlier.