An analyse evaluation on how I use media technology within my advanced production

1. HOW DID YOU USE NEW MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES IN THE
CONSTRUCTION RESEARCH,
PLANNING AND EVALUATION
STAGES?
Daniel Joda

2. List of all media technologies that we
used
 Nikon D610 DSLR
 Adobe Premiere CS6
 Adobe Photoshop CS6
 Adobe InDesign CS6
 YouTube
 Prezi
 Slideshare
 KiteLearning
 VEM Machine (Video
Editing Machine)

3. Nikon D610 DSLR
 Using the “Nikon D610 DSLR” has been critical in
filming our short film because the quality of the
camera adds a level of professionalism because of
the 1080p videoing. Whilst we were filming I had to
bring a pack of rechargeable energizer batteries. The
reason for this is because we would be filming for a
long time, so it would only be wise for us to bring two
packs of fully charged batteries.
 Another benefit from using this camera is by the type
of shots we were able to take, for instance we were
able to focus on certain characters, to show the
characters importance. For instance, when the main
gangster is walking and the rest of them are in
background attacking one of the mafia members.

4. Adobe Premiere Pro CS6
 I used Adobe Premiere Pro in order to edit our footage. The first
screenshot is of when I had put the footage together and then
exported it.
 The second screenshot is when I had inserted a voiceover of the
antagonist speaking.
 The third screenshot is when I reduced the speed of that specific
shot in order to maintain the suspense.

5. Adobe Photoshop CS6
 Photoshop was the software I used to create my short film poster,
masthead and also my mood boards.
 When creating my film poster on Photoshop I knew that there were
many requirements that I had to fulfil. This could only be done using
Photoshop. For instance, the silhouette element was done using
“colour overlay”. Another element that I used was the use of the
steel tongs font which is important when creating a film poster
because it is a typical convention. Furthermore, using this software
was not as difficult as other because I had been using it for 3 years.
In addition.
 I used Photoshop to create my mood boards because Photoshop is
the best way of grouping images and also much more flexible in
terms of the sizes I want to the images to be.

6. Adobe InDesign
 I used Adobe InDesign because it is the conventional
software to use create a double page spread and in
terms of the technical aspects of the software it is good
to use because I am able to control the size of my
margins, columns and gutter. This is important because
it would look specialist which was one of my initial
intentions I was trying to get across. In addition, looking
at the screenshot below what I was able to do is include
images and graphics I created using Photoshop and
simply insert it on InDesign.

7. Presentation Software
 YouTube – YouTube is an integral part of this
course because everything I did during the
process of filming is I put on YouTube, for
instance all the development work, where we
filmed and also why we filmed.


8. Presentation Software
 Slideshare – I used Slideshare for the planning
and evaluation stage as it straight-forward to
use. In addition because it is free and online it
is easily accessible all the times. Furthermore,
I can embed it on my blog which improves the
way my blog is presented.

9. Presentation Software
 Prezi – I also used Prezi for my planning and
evaluation. Prezi once again is a free online based
application which means I can use it all the time. In
addition, the application is much more interactive this
is ideal because it is important to be using interactive
software's to show my flexibility with different
software's. I also used Prezi to present our pitch to
our teacher, the reason for using Prezi is because of
the interactivity.

10. Conclusion
 To summarise, to complete this Advanced
Production to a very good standard there needs to
be a diverse amount of software's that should be
used in order to create a film and also all the
planning and evaluation. I believe I have achieved
this as I used different presentation software’s and
when it came to creating the film and the ancillary
task I used the specialist programme Adobe. As it
was specialist however, I knew I still had many
skills to learn so going to people for help and
watching videos was very beneficial and that is
seen through the products I have created.