Media Evaluation Question 4 Powerpoint

1. technologies in the
construction and
research, planning and
evaluation stage?

2.  Over the years, technology has progressed and
proliferated throughout nations, and the film
industry especially, has evolved extensively
within this timeframe. With this advancement in
technology, my group was able to; communicate to
external sources to gain feedback, use software
efficiently to perfect the integration of our
products, research effectively to create innovative
and niche products, and distribute our final pieces
to reach wider audiences.

3. Firstly, my partner and I browsed
the internet to access websites such
as ‘IMDb’, which is a movie database
site, and YouTube, which is a video-
sharing site, in order to research the
codes, conventions and genre
signifiers of thriller films.
This was very useful and efficient
as we already had fundamentals to
build upon, such as knowing
where certain titles are generally
placed, how and when is best to
introduce the protagonist, the
right background music to use to
strongly represent thriller genres
and also help give viewers the
emotive feeling you are trying to
establish within your characters
and the certain effects to use to
help epitomize our thriller genre.

4. Some of the trailers we looked at include:
 Leon: The Professional
 Salt
 Taken
and;
 Hanna,
all of which matched the style and elegance of our hind-sighted trailer.

5. We then used high quality HD digital cameras to film FCP also enabled us to structure our narrative
the clips that will be included in our trailer. This gave effectively, organise our ideas and develop
us sharper and clearer material to work with when characterization. For example, to develop the
editing. The clarity of our footage enabled us to character of Jeta we had to construct many
progress with our understanding of how micro different moments for the audience to feel
features produce meaning for the audience. emotionally connected to the footage. FCP and
the way we had to organise our project, helped
us to layout the relevant clips and experiment
with the ordering of Jeta’s characterization
After we conducted our filming, we then had to within the trailer.
import our footage into the Apple Mac’s using a
fire-wire and begin editing and merging the
footage together in order to create our trailer. The
software we used to edit was ‘Final Cut Pro
(FCP)’. In FCP, we were able to create sub-clips
and bins, crop unwanted footage, import
audio, render clips and view the progress of our
work whilst editing. We were also able to develop
our understanding of narrative structures through
the use of FCP. The software helped us organise
our ideas and play around with the narrative. We
edited different versions of the trailer in FCP to In the very first draft we were told that the trailer was following the
find the perfect sequence that would portray our narrative too much, so it was more like a film opening rather than a
theatrical trailer. We then impacted on this advice by re-arranging
characters the way we planned. different clips to create a fully effective trailer, including a
beginning, middle and end of a full movie in just under two minutes.

6. After we had a general idea of the structure of our trailer, we then began to
create titles and logos that would appear in the trailer, magazine and poster.
These were constructed using a program called, Motion. This is a more
advanced software than ‘LiveType’ which is the software we used last year
to create our film opening titles. This shows advancement and progression
in my group as we were able to learn to a further level of editing software in
order to make our work a higher standard. ‘Motion’ was expressly created to
interlink with ‘Final Cut Pro’ (software we used to edit), which makes it
more user-friendly and easy for us to switch between the two applications
and integrate work we invented from one software to the other, it provided
us with smart motion transitions which we added to our titles and logos to
bring out the full effect.

7. Photoshop was a vital graphic editing application throughout the creation
and construction of our ancillary products. It allowed us
crop, slice, blur, fade, merge and alter images and texts with numerous
effects. We spent most of our time using this software as it allows users to
pay attention to detail and invent commercial and life-like products, such
as our magazine and poster. As there were many features and tools to
utilize in Photoshop, at times, we had to rely on the internet to access
YouTube and Google to browse for tutorials on how to navigate the
software and deploy specific actions.

8. GarageBand was the software used to
create our music. At first, we used
GarageBand’s preset ‘loops’, filtering out
the categories in order to find the perfect
instruments and effects to correlate the
genre and narrative of our trailer.
After attempting numerous times to create a
musical piece to sync with our trailer, we then
found it would be easier and more efficient to
download and import copyright free music from
the website 'freeplaymusic.com/', this website
enabled us to find a piece of music that creates
the right mood and atmosphere that our trailer
represents.

9. To make communication between me and One resource I used to complete
my partner more sufficient, we both were unfinished tasks in my spare time at
able to use the ‘Blackberry Messenger’ home, was Dropbox. This app allowed
service to full capacity in order to ensure we me to upload my work from my school
could; set meeting times, send each-other login to the Dropbox online
pieces of work, go through our work and storage, which is then available for me to
talk about what to do next all when one or access from my home computer which
the other was not present. This ensured that then allows me to download the file and
we were keeping up with pace and were work on it using the appropriate
always in touch to discuss our progress. program.