The most basic of technology has helped me in constructing all of my media work and I wouldn't have been able to complete it without the use of these below...
My external hard drive
Using folders allowed me to keep my work organised, making it quick and
easy for me to locate my work. Without folders all of my work would be much
more difficult to find and this could become very time consuming.
Without the above it would be impossible to complete any work. The
programmes on each have allowed me to not only create my media products but to
display my research, construction, planning and evaluation too. It has been an
advantage for me to have the opportunity to use both a MAC and a PC/laptop as
these both contain different programmes which are unique to the computer (for
example, Final Cut Pro can only be used on a MAC).
Web 2.0
Web 2.0 had
undoubtedly been the most crucial technology used in every process of creating
my media products. It has been my primary source of information and has allowed
me to carry out any of my research such as - searching for images -looking for
information - searching for fonts - music/sound effects -emailing teachers -
blogger etc. and it has effectively allowed me to create such effective
products as an outcome. The web has also been one of my main forms of contact
as I set filming dates etc. with my actresses through email. Finally it has
also been useful in helping me contact my teachers for feedback, allowing me to
quickly and easily communicate with them from home.
Google or Bing
Google and Bing have been my most useful search
engines for finding anything on the internet. They have been most helpful in my
research. In regards to research they have allowed me to search for any
information that I needed such as finding out the codes and conventions of all
my media products. I found Google was a great place to find any images or image
effects to help improve the aesthetics of my work (for example the dust and
scratches effect on my images). Without these search engines it would have been
much more time consuming for me to be able to source any information or images that
I needed.
College emails and website
On the college website I have been able to keep up
to day with all the deadlines to make sure that I met them. I have also been
able to locate checklists to ensure I didn’t forget to include any work on my
blog.
Youtube
On YouTube I have been able to search for any sound
effects that I was looking to use. I also used it when searching for existing
horror film trailers and this came in very useful as it brought up a huge
selection for me to look at. It allowed me to study many so that I could
identify the codes and conventions typical or the horror genre.
YouTube has been the website in which I have been
able to upload my film trailer drafts and my audience feedback video to. Using YouTube
has allowed a quick and simple upload of the videos I have produced onto my
blog with little ease.
Blogger
Blogger has been the place where I have stored any
work I have done during my media course for both my AS and A” years studding
media. It has allowed me to easily order my work in a way which is simple to
understand and it has also given me the opportunity to go back to any work to
improve upon it. On blogger it is easy to see if you are up to date with your
blog as it allows you to look at other pupils blogs, I found this useful as
looking at others work gave me new ideas and inspiration for my own.
These websites have thousands of different fronts
to choose from and because I wanted my media products to be unique from my
other class mates I chose to use fonts off these sights, rather than the slightly
boring ones from word or Photoshop. They allowed me to search words such as ‘horror’
and ‘spooky’ to allows me to easily find a suitable font for my project.
Microsoft
Microsoft office contains many useful programmes in
which I have been able to use during the presentation of my work on my blog.
Word
Word has come in handy when writing up my LIIAR and
textual analysis of existing media products. This is the programme on which I created
my questionnaire for my audience feedback as Word makes it quick, easy and
simple to do, allowing me to change text size and colour easily. Before I posted
any written up work onto blogger I ALWAYS made sure I copied it into word, just
in case I made any little spelling mistakes as Word makes it easy to correct
them.
Graphs and Microsoft Excel
When displaying my audience feed
back I chose to present it in graphs as this visually showed me the outcome of
the answers,
allowing
me to see the amount of different answers easily. Microsoft Excel
is the usual programme to open up when creating a graph on a PC however I used
a shortcut through Microsoft Word. I used the ‘charts’ button which acted as a
shortcut though to Microsoft Excel to create my charts. Doing it this way
however allowed me to insert my graph straight onto word with my text so that
no fiddly copying and pasting has to be carried out. This method is also less
time consuming.
Powerpoint
PowerPoint is
my favourite Microsoft programme to work on as it allows easy movement or text
and images on multiple slides at one time. It also allows you to set a theme
amongst your slides so that your work looks professionally displayed.
I chose to use PowerPoint to
construct question 1 in this evaluation as I wanted to include
many
screen grabs of my film trailer.
Adobe Programmes
Photoshop is the programme on which
I feel I have the most skills and I feel it has helped me to make my poster and
magazine cover very professional. Photoshop allows for easy editing or text and
photos
in
a way which no Microsoft programme
will let you edit. All the editing for the images on my poster and magazine was
done on Photoshop
as
I feel I can work this programme well.
As you can see my image for my
poster isn't
very
effective (scary) with out any of the adjustments I made on it and I have done
this by using the adjustment options in Photoshop.
Adjusting the levels and curves on
my images allowed me to adjust the lightness or the image, allowing for a more
professional looking photograph.
Adding a dark black background
allowed me to achieve the conventional dark and eerie look of existing horror
film posters. This is also the same kind of effect I used from my magazine
cover.
Adding a dust and scratches effect
with a red coloured gradience over the top allowed me to create this spooky
looking image. You can see from the origional image to this one that editing is
very important in creating successful media products.
Bridge
Bridge came in useful when sorting
through images that I had taken for my media products. It allowed me to easily
look at the thumbnails of the photos taken on photo shoots so that I could see
which ones wanted to edit further.
On the MAC - Final Cut Pro
Final cut pro is where I produced
my film trailer and two teaser trailers. Final cut pro is a programme that
allows you to import footage and edit them to how you want them. I found this
programme very useful as it allowed me
to add effects onto my footage that made it look like it was filmed in the
night time. It also allowed me to
create quick fast cut edits within my trailers as this is typical of the horror
gentle.
It
regards
to
music this was very simple to add too, as it just needed to be simply imported
onto the programme. Without Final Cut Pro I wouldn’t have been able to produce
my trailer at all, and so I feel it has been a very useful media technology
within the production of my media products.
Camera
My Sony alpha camera has allowed me
to capture quality images for both my magazine and my poster. Without my camera
I wouldn’t have been able to capture still images for my media products so this
was an essential piece of equipment.
My camcorder similar to the one
shown above allowed me to capture all of my moving image for my horror trailer.
Memory card
Using a memory card in both my
camera and camcorder that had a big storage was essential in ensuring I had
enough space to film/shoot as much footage as I needed without running out of
space.
Using a tripod was essential when
wanting to capture steady footage with my camcorder. When using the tripod it
makes sure that no knocks are seen and can allow for professional looking
footage. I only used a tripod for some footage in my trailer as I wanted it use
a more conventional hand held camera technique which creates more uneven and
jerky movements.
In the making creating and construction of all of my media
products there have been many media products that have been used by myself.
Without the use of all of these I believe that my final products will not have
been as successful and professional looking. Each media product was unique in
its own way which allowed me to do different things with my different media
products. PowerPoint I feel was the most effecting in the making of my poster
and magazine cover however I feel that Final Cut Pro was the most important in
making my film trailer and teaser trailers. Overall without all of these
different media technologies I would not have been able to complete my media
work to a high standard.
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