Software (Gareth Hawkes)

The software that we have been using for our documentary, is SoundCloud, FinalCutPro, Bubbl.us, Blogger, Scribd and Slide. Each of these are used for different things, and have helped us carry out our blog for a high set of marks. Within the below explanation, I will be talking about each piece of software separately.

The use of blogger, is how we began starting our documentary, and how we managed to sort out our plans for our pre-production. Blogger is a great way to create a blog from scratch, and we used it especially for our coursework. This was really helpful, and I used blogger last year in my group, to help create my film, so it is really helpful to use.

Scribd is a whole lot of use as well, because the written work that we have done for the pre-production, or anything like that, they make it look neater. You don't have to use it if you don't want to, but we were told to use it by Pianki, so that we could fit more onto our blog. And this is a great help if you want to make your blog presentable. The same thing as above, we used this last year as well in media.

Bubbl.us is a great way to make your brainstorms, productions, presentations, flow charts and mind maps presentable, because it is the typical facility that helps you create them from scratch. This was really helpful last year, and it has been really helpful this year. Because of this piece of software, we are able to make our work neat and easy to read. A good brainstorm would be used considerably to help complete tasks.

SoundCloud is a great way to quickly find songs and upload them onto the software, because it is quick and easy to do. The only weird thing, is that the songs are set in sound waves, instead of normal pictures and words. The sound person in our documentary, a.k.a me, had to use this software to find and upload sounds that we could use for our documentary. In the documentary, you will find out what type music we used.

FinalCutPro, is the type of software you would only be able to get on a mac, and this would be really useful for you, in your first year at college for Media Studies A/S, as you use this software to edit your finished product. My A/S Media Studies was based upon a short film, maximum two minutes, with a small percentage of tolerance. My A2 Media Studies is based on a documentary, which we are using finalcutpro to edit as well.



We also used a type of software called Slide, which I have never heard of before. It was used to create a slide show for our documentary, and create a sort of story for what we did in London. This type software is really cool, as you could also use it to make a storyboard. That's one idea I like, and it would fit together to create a perfect storyboard for a film, television programme or a documentary.