New media technologies for film and image

Image editing software:
Photoshop.


Photoshop is an image editing software, available in many editions to suit your profession in photography. There are now even editions (such as CS4 Extended) for film and video. Photoshop is a very commonly used software, and is used by professional photographers everywhere. Photoshop is created by Adobe Systems.

The history of Photoshop is relatively simple; in 1987 a student named Thomas Knoll began writing a program on his Macintosh Plus to display grayscale images on a monochrome display. This program, called Display, caught the attention of his brother John Knoll, an Industrial Light & Magic employee, who recommended Thomas turn it into a full-fledged image editing program. They then together created Imagepro, which later turned to Photoshop. Demonstrations were given to Apple and Adobe, both successful, and Adobe purchased the license to distribute the product in late 1988.
Photoshop is now one of the leading image editing software kits. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals" and was one of the early "killer applications" on the Macintosh, later also for MS Windows.

I think Photoshop would be a very useful tool for editing and creating the digi pak and poster. I use Photoshop on a regular basis to edit photographs for college and for personal use, so I am very familiar with the tools and am happy to use the program for my media project.

iMovie


iMovie is a program on the Apple Mac that allows you to organise edit and create film. iMovie supports most digital camcorders, and iMovie '09 supports popular video formats like AVCHD and MPEG 4, and even the new iFrame video format.

Due to college supporting Apple Macs, I think that for my own video this would be a good program to edit my film. With all these tools I believe that my group and I could create a successful music video.
This program will allow me to edit my shots, organise my video timing, the colours that appear on the shots, and the sequence order that the shots appear in.

Song A1E


High definition video (HDV) is a format for recording and playback of high-definition video on a DV cassette tape.
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) is a technology for constructing integrated circuits. Two important characteristics of CMOS devices are high noise immunity and low static power consumption.

Features:
Using a 3 mega pixel CMOS sensor provides high quality results in a highly compact design. With the Enhanced Imaging Processor (EIP) which is the new signal processing circuit for CMOS sensor, it provides a number of benefits such as,
- Wide dynamic range
- Smear-less
- High sensitivity & Low noise
- High-speed read-out
- Low power consumption

The ring positioned in front of the body can be selected for manual focus or manual zoom, with direct operation of using the slide switch located near the ring.

Still image capture
Enables the flexibility to capture still images onto both tape and Memory Stick. It can record maximum 2.8M (1920x1440) pixels in Memory Mode, and maximum 1.2M (1440x810) in Tape Mode.

B&W / colour switchable viewfinder
Some professional users find it beneficial to view an image in black and white to assist with focusing operations. For this reason, the HVR-A1E allows you to choose either a colour or black & white display on the viewfinder depending on your preference.

This camcorder is the equipment that I shall be using for my project. With the added use of a tripod I shall be able to get a very still straight images.