1. Evaluation 4
How did you use new media
technologies in the construction
and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
2. Throughout the course I used many different
media technologies in each stage of the
course. These technologies were vital in
helping me to create my work and without
them my work would not have been
successful, I have learnt a lot from these
technologies when using them throughout the
course.
The three different parts of the course were
research and planning, creating the product
and evaluation.
3. Apple MAC
Throughout the course we used Apple MAC
computers. Before media I had never used
Mac's before so I learnt a lot throughout the
course by using them.
It was better to use Mac's instead of normal
computers as Mac's come with a lot of
software pre-installed which we needed to use
to successfully complete the course, such as
Final Cut, Garage Band and Photo booth.
All of these different software's made the way I
present my work varied and more interesting as
I had a choice of many different programs to
present my work on that I wouldn’t have had if
we weren't using the Mac’s.
4. Blogger
• I used blogger throughout the whole of the
course as this is where all of my work has
been stored.
• I could embed all of my YouTube videos
and PowerPoint's onto my blog, and could
also create blog posts to document my
progress along the course.
• Blogger has been vital throughout the
course to help keep me organised and
present my work in a organised clear way.
5. Firefox/safari/Google
• I used the internet (Firefox/safari)
throughout the entire course as I
needed the internet to find
information during my research
and planning, product production
and evaluation.
• Without the internet I wouldn’t have been able
to find many of the information out that I did
so my products in the end wouldn’t have
turned out as good as they should have as I
would have had nothing to compare them
with.
• I also used the internet to store my work
on blogger.
6. PowerPoint/Slide Share
• I have created many PowerPoint's
throughout the course, especially in my
research and planning as it is a easy way to
group together and present my research
and findings.
• I could then use online media technology
such as Slide Share to post the PowerPoint's
online so I could then embed them into my
blog so I could keep all my work stored
together in the correct order.
7. Final cut express/ YouTube
• I used Final Cut a lot in the course and learnt a
lot in doing so, at the start of the course we
worked in groups to film and edit a trailer, then
later on in the course I filmed and edited my
trailer on my own and when you compare the
two trailers you can see that my final trailer is a
lot better then the previous ‘practice’ trailers as I
learnt a lot from creating these ‘practice’ trailers
and drafts which helped me make my final
trailer to the best it could be.
• I learnt how to do various things on Final Cut such
as how to change the effect of my footage such as
how to make it blue so it was more ‘CCTV’ like,
how to add text to the footage, and how to do
various effects with the footage such as ‘Bad TV’
which I used a lot in my trailer as it gave me the
desired effect I needed to make my trailer look as
realistic and professional as possible.
• I could then easily export my completed
trailer onto YouTube easily using
QuickTime movie conversion which
changed the trailer to a .mov file which
was easy to upload onto YouTube, which
I could then embed into my blog.
8. Final cut helped me a lot during the course as it
was one of the easiest programs to use to edit
my footage and put my trailer together.
I could import all footage, sounds effects, sound
tracks and voiceovers into one sequence then
edit them all to how I wanted and place them all
onto the timeline in the correct order.
I could also layer the sounds and voice over's
onto the footage.
It was also easy to add my pre-made inter
titles, Film title and release date information
onto Final Cut which I had previously made on
Photo Shop.
Final cut also helped as I could preview my
trailer whenever I needed to see how it was
going and see what else I needed to do.
9. I uploaded all of the videos I
produced throughout the course onto
YouTube so they were all stored in
one space.
This helped me as I could then
embed the videos into my blog and
onto online programmes such as
Prezi easily.
10. HD video camera/tripod
• I used the video cameras to record the
trailer in my research and planning
however this then helped me later on in the
course as I went on to use these cameras in
the creation of my final trailer. The cameras
helped me as I learnt how to focus and blur
the camera when necessary and various
other techniques.
• The tripod also helped me as I could fit
the camera onto it so my footage wasn’t
shaky, my trailer however did use a lot of
handheld footage as this is the style of
footage that I thought worked well in my
research and planning which I completed
before starting to produce my trailer.
• The combination of the camera and tripod
helped me as I had the choice of having still
footage that wasn’t shaky, and then using
the camera handheld to make it more
realistic.
11. Digital cameras/ SLR cameras
I used the SLR cameras to take photos
for my print products and also my
practice shots.
By using the camera to take practice
shots I could practice different elements
of camera taking such as manually
focus, adjust shutter speed and aperture
settings.
This helped me, as when it came to
taking my final shoots for my print
products they were the best they could
be after taking all of the practice shots
on the cameras previously and learning
what looked best.
13. PHOTOBOOTH...
I used photo booth to record
videos as its streamline and
the videos save directly onto
the computer so you save time
as you don’t need to import
the videos from other devices.
I could then simply open the
videos onto Final Cut then
export them onto YouTube and
embed them into my blog.
14. Grab
Grab was vital throughout the course as it
helped me to document my progress
throughout by ‘grabbing’ screenshots and
selections off my screen which I could then
upload onto my blog.
This helped me to keep track of how far along I
was in the course, and what I still needed to
do.
The screenshots also counted as evidence that
I was doing the work such as when I took
screenshots throughout the process of my
soundtrack creation.
15. Photoshop
• I used Photoshop a lot throughout the course and once again this was a
programmed that I hadn't really used before starting media.
• I didn’t really have any knowledge of how to use Photoshop before
this course however by the end I now feel confident in how to use
Photoshop and I feel like it helped me a lot in this course.
• I used Photoshop to edit my chosen images and to create both my film
poster, and magazine cover.
• I used a lot of different parts of Photoshop when producing these print products…
• I edited the images under the ‘adjustments’ drop down using the
‘brightness/contrast’, ‘hue/saturation’ and also the ‘black & white’ options.
• I also used the text tool, shape tool and fill tool on both products.
• Something that helped me a lot when creating my products was the ‘stroke’ effect
that you could add to text as when creating my products I kept coming across the
problem were my text would blend into my image however by adding the stroke
effect to my text I feel like it helped it stand out a lot more against the image which
helped avert the problem.
18. Photoshop also helped me to create my production
logo which would be included in both my trailer and
film poster.
I looked at other production companies logos on the
internet during my research and planning which
helped me when creating my logo as I now had a
better idea of what worked and what didn't.
I downloaded different ‘brushes’ for Photoshop
using online brush downloading website
www.brusheezy.com which I then opened on
Photoshop.
I downloaded a grey background and blood as these
are in my horror genres repertoire.
The middle image is my first draft of my logo
however I didn't think this worked so I changed the
background to plain black and centred the blood
and text as I think this worked best and looked the
most alike to the actual professional logos I had
looked at during my research and planning.
19. www.DaFont.com
• DaFont.com helped me a lot when creating all three of my
products as it gave me a wider variety of text to implement
into my products.
• The website has a vast variety of text so I knew there would
be something that would be suitable for my products.
• When I eventually found the font I wanted it was very easy
to download and them open into Photoshop to use on my
products.
20. I downloaded font ‘Another
typewriter’ from DaFont.com
which I used as the font for my
trailers inter titles as this was the
most similar I could find to the
font used the professional trailer
I used as inspiration so I knew it
would work.
I also downloaded fonts...
Primma handmade,
plane crash,
And universal accreditation
21. Word
• I didn’t use word a lot
throughout the course however
it was necessary to complete
my call sheets and model
release forms which were vital
as without them I would not
have been able to submit my
coursework.
• I also used word to complete
my shooting schedule as this
helped to keep organized
during films and make sure I
got each and every shot I
needed.
23. Garage Band
• Garage band is another program that I had never used before starting the course however
by the end of the course I again felt confident in using the program.
• Garage band helped me a lot in creating my product as it enabled me to create a
soundtrack to go along with my trailer which would make my trailer more professional
and make the footage stand out more if it had a corresponding soundtrack.
• I used orchestral strings in my soundtrack and only used two different sounds
throughout, this gave me the desired ‘eerie’ soundtrack I needed for my trailer.
• I also used garage band to crate sound effects for when my inter titles and titles were
shown.
24. Voice recorder/Phone
• A lot of my trailers narrative was shown
using voice over's as sound bridges to
the rest of the trailer.
• To create the voice recordings I used
the voice recorder app on my phone
and then I exported the files onto the
computer and used a online website
converter to convert them to a MP3
file, which I then opened in Final Cut
and added to my trailer.
• This helped me a lot as it was a easy
way to get the voice recording which
were a necessity to my trailer.
25. www.partnersinrhyme.com
• I needed a lot of sound effects in my trailer to make the footage more
effective and www.partnersinrhyme.com helped me a lot with this.
• The website contains a lot of different sounds effects which you can
download to your computer free of charge.
• I downloaded numerous sound effects from the website and used a lot
of them in my trailer.
• An example of this is when in my trailer a glass needs to be smashed,
however instead of actually smashing a glass I instead just downloaded
the glass smashing sound effect which worked just as well.
• Also I found that many of the ‘screams’ in my trailer that the actors had
to do didn’t sound as real and sounded to forced and didn't really
work, so instead of just editing on the screaming I instead added a
scream sound effect on top which I think worked better then the actors
actual screams and gave me the desired effect.
26. Selection of sound effects... Downloading the sound effect...
After downloading the sound
effects I then opened them in
Final Cut and added them to my
trailer where necessary.