Microsoft packages
For a lot our planning we used Microsoft word as well as microsoft PowerPoint. We used them to plan both our pitch for our music video. We were able to plan our props and costumes and ensure that we had everything we needed in place before we started. They say that planning is essential which I can confront is true. Compared to my AS production where I didn't plan as much. It would explain why I didn't really know what I was doing and when. So thanks to PowerPoint we could plan props, market research and use it as a platform to prepare for our music video.
Photoshop
For our Digi-Pack we used Photoshop to edit our poster as well as our CD Cover as it is cutting edge editing software that is on a professional level and it would be best suited to edit our Digi-pack. I am very familiar with the software so it was easy to manipulated the image. I was fully aware of the all the tools and filters and special; effects that you can use. Adobe Photoshop is not for the for the faint hearted and because I have experience from both AS and A2 photography.
Camera
The school provided us with a canon video camera to use which for the price was okay. It was alright if you wanted to do some tests shot but when it came down to our actual video it didn't have the quality that we needed. So in the end we decided to use an iPhone 6 camera as it was able to film in HD. The only thing is that when we put into youtube, it was resized so we lost the quality through the importing and exporting through different software like Final Cut and iMovie.Youtube

iMovie


Final Cut

However at the start of A2 I figured out that if you made sure that your clips did not lap each other you could move them without having to render them. Little things like that saved me a lot of time and effort. Now other things that would happen that would hinder progress was your video files weren't saved properly the above error message will come up and you would not be able to use the clips so you
had to very careful. If you wanted to get into causal editing then I think that is a great programme to start with as you can use basic skills and as long as they sort out the layout it would be best suited to the everyday user.