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Evaluation Question 4
- 1. Evaluation: Question 4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
- 2. Introduction • The media course this year has been a very average one for me compared to last years as I love to learn and to be taught how to use new technologies, however none of this happened. • At the start of the A2 year I was pretty good at using the applications and programs we had used in AS as I have owned a mac for around 3 years now and have created images, movies and songs in my own recreational time. • Annoyingly there was no new programs introduced to me which is what I was hoping for, however there were opportunities to use programs that we didn’t in AS for example Photoshop. I was hoping that they would teach me how to use something a bit more advanced than the incredibly basic iMovie, I couldn’t do half the things I wanted too. • In conclusion this course has not really challenged me except when the school didn’t provide me with a microphone and I was left to sort it out myself. The sound was therefore ruined within my production as I haven't been taught how to use programs that edit voices and dub them over moving images and to be still be perfectly in-sync. • In contrast the course has let me use my skills in a sort of practicing way and I now feel much more familiar with my technologies and it has trained me to use them more efficiently.
- 3. The Apple MacBook • All the work that needed to be done on a computer within all of our three projects was completed using my own Apple MacBook or the iMacs at school. The iMacs contained very basic software to create our products with for example iMovie and Photoshop, however I was hoping to be taught how to use Final Cut Pro for editing as it is far more advanced. The Mac is an incredibly essential part of creating a product like this and without one I'm not sure how possible it would be, and if it was I know it would be significantly harder.
- 4. • YouTube was used a lot within my group as it is where we uploaded all of our video tasks. It is a brilliant free website that is available to anyone in the public and anybody can view your pieces. • If I were trying to market my short film this would be the perfect place as it has one of the biggest audiences on the internet, not only that but I can select specific categories and genres to put my piece into and therefore targeting my perfect audience. • YouTube also acted as a great research resource for our group and it is how we managed to research other short films and film noirs. Also it is how we got any information for the radio trailer, It helped our group drastically.
- 5. iMovie, GarageBand & Photoshop • GarageBand is the software I • iMovie is the software I used to create the radio • Photoshop is the last software we used to create used to edit all of my trailer, it meant I could add a our Film poster. video clips. However I few audio effects like an old • First I took the picture of the really wanted something a time radio effect over the main character on my bit more advanced like voice and the crackling of an camera, then I downloaded Final Cut Pro as iMovie is old time record player. it to my Mac and sent it to far too basic software for • It also meant I could my iPhone. incorporate some nice jazz • When I had it on my iPhone half the things that I I edited it using a into the trailer as well as wanted to do. application I had paid for editing the voices from the • Using this software you short film itself into the called SnapSeed which basically means I can edit can add audio effects and trailer. every aspect of the photo. video ones wherever you • I don’t think that we would • After using SnapSeed to get like, you can cut and have been able to make the the effect I wanted I then move around your video radio trailer without put the image onto clips to where you want GarageBand but I know that Photoshop and added in the noir style writing. them to be. You can even Logic Pro and Ableton Live Suite are much better • People believe Photoshop add in writing but it is to be the best editing very limited in a sense programs and I believe we software but personally that they're are only a few would have done something being an artist I use many better with them. different editing softwares transitions to select from to get my desired effect and and very few effects in would have been able to do general. it with just about any.
- 6. Camera & Tripod Sony DSLR: alpha-580 Hama Star 62 • This was my own personal camera that is • This was the tripod we used capable of full 1080p HD recording. when filming our main task. • I decided to use this one instead of the We used a lot of long shots one the school provided as it is a DSLR and close-ups which the tripod which means Digital Single Lens Reflex. came in great use for, we also This meant I had more control of the focus within my shots, most of the time it was in did a few shots where I had to automatic but if I wanted to focus in on carry the camera attached to something specific I could put it in manual the folded up tripod. focus and focus in on one specific object. • We needed our shots too be This also means I could blur the shot or quite steady and properly bring it into focus for example the first bordered to pull off the shot of the short film. professional look and we • The good thing about this camera is that it wouldn’t have been able to do had an extremely long battery life which it without the tripod. came in great use when filming for hours outside.
- 7. Blogger • The last and I would say the most used program that I have used this year would be blogger. • It holds all of my research, planning and final pieces. I did enjoy using a interactive and modern way of uploading my work rather than just keeping everything in a folder, however as my three products became more of a priority I found myself using this platform much less and I believe I could have uploaded a lot more work. • I have tried other blogging websites such as WordPress and Tumblr but I find that they are quite long to use and they don’t have that many shortcuts, unlike blogger is nice and simple to use. I can also edit each one of my posts without having to delete the whole one which makes things in general much less time consuming.