How did
you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
During the construction stage of my project, I
used a variety of media technologies. For example: I used the software Adobe
InDesign and Adobe Photoshop to design and construct my film poster and
magazine front cover. The advantages of using this was that I learned how to
put layers on top of pictures and text and I also learned how to use the
spotting tool to take away any mistakes on the pictures that I uploaded onto
the software. However, the drawbacks were that sometimes I forgot how I did
stuff to my pictures, sometimes the tools that I used loaded very slowly, and I
had to wait a long time. In addition, I used premiere pro to put my trailer
together. I uploaded footage of scenes that I had filmed for the trailer and
selected what clips that I wanted to use in the trailer. Furthermore, I used
some of the features of the software to edit my trailer to make it look good,
like: fast colour corrector, blur, cropping and fit to screen, constant grain
etc. I
used many media technologies while I was researching information for my
trailer. For example: I used YouTube a lot to look at various horror trailers
for inspiration because I needed to see what actual trailer look like because I
wanted it to be original and authentic. Also, I used YouTube to listen to scary
and tense sounds that I could potentially use in my trailer to add to the
scariness and suspenseful atmosphere. Also I used blogger and Word to jot down
the information that I gathered about the horror genre because I figured that
it would be more organised than writing it down on paper and potentially losing
it. However, there were some drawbacks to using these technologies, for
example, for YouTube-it was finding the right sounds to use because there was
so many videos and sometime they would take long to load, which used up a lot
of my time, for blogger, I had a number of issues like, trying to change the
writing after I had already published the post (which was frustrating because
it sometimes would not allow me to do that). I used lots of media technologies
for the planning stage of my trailer production, For example: I used Microsoft
Word to jot down any ideas that came to mind about what genre to the trailer,
then I used online search engines to look for examples of videos that have the
different genres in them to help me to decide on what to do. Then I looked at
different synopsis’ of horror movies (because I thought that would be a great
genre to do) and started to jot down my different ideas for a horror trailer. I
used PowerPoint to analysis a horror trailer that was recent so that I would
get a ‘feel’ of what the latest trailer look like now. Then I thought out which
narrative structure to use for my trailer and I searched up the different
narrative theories and choose to do Todorov’s theory of Equilibrium. Then I
went onto YouTube again and searched for a horror trailer to analyse in
relation to Todorov’s theory and I picked the movie IT. During the evaluation stages,
I used many different media technologies. For example: I used Prezi to make a
document about the first evaluation question that I had to answer about my
trailer. In this question, I talked about the processes I used and the front
cover and film poster, then I inserted a clip of my trailer in the question as
well. In addition, for the second question, I used Word document to type up a
script to the question “how effective is the combination of my main product and
ancillary texts?” and then I used iMovie to create a short video explaining
this question using my script. For the third question I used Photo booth icon
on Mac computers to video a focus group for our trailer and asked that person
questions relating to the trailer, then I uploaded the clip onto YouTube (the
drawback was that the time it took to upload it) and then embedded the clip
link onto a blog post and then posted it on my blog and I also used an online questionnaire called survey monkey and I sent out the link for my survey to 10 people who fit my target audience. For the last evaluation
question, I used Word again to type up a script for the question, then I need
to record a voice note of the question, then post it on my blog, then I need to
use iMovie’s to upload images of the technologies that I used then, put the clip
with the images, then upload it onto YouTube and then, embed it onto my blog.
(Unfortunately, I cant seem to get rid of this white thing on the text)
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