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How has your use of digital technology advanced over the 2 years and how has this improved the result of your products?
Camera
photoshop
Final cut express
Garageband
Firefox- Youtube, google, flickr, blogger, myspace

There is a wide range of different digital technologies that we had at our disposal, over the past two years to help us create our products. And over those two years our skills in them have improved and developed allowing us to make much better final products.
For example the new cameras were much easier to use as the new setting allowed us to see all our clips as thumbnails on the camera screen, which meant that we could easily view all the clips that we had while filming. This caused a lot less stress when editing as we didn't have to cut one long clip up like you would with the old tape cameras.
Final cut express, In the first year our use and knowledge of this program was quite basic, we would just use simple techniques like fades and maybe the occasional filter. For example my children's film didn't have any visual effects or filters, except for the very minimal use of slow motion. After more experience on final cut, we were able to pull off more impressive effects and just generally make the video look smoother. For example we used a green screen in our music video which we were then able to put samples of Rusko's video behind our clips.
We used a whole variety of different popular website such as, Firefox....Youtube.....Google.....Flickr.....Myspace....Blogger and more. All of these websites helped us improve our product in different ways. For example websites like Google and Youtube helped us research for our product, by finding out information on certain subjects and we would watch relative videos on youtube, for example music videos of the same genre.
We used Photoshop for things like magazine adverts and posters, photoshop has a very steep learning curve so by this year everybody was getting much better at using it then when we first started. A technique which was specifically useful in creating our products was the magnetic lasso tool, this allowed us to cut of pictures of ourselves your anything else that we needed and layer on top of another background.