New techonolgies
- 2. • Throughout the process of research, planning, making and evaluation. I have used many different forms of technology. They have been technologies such as Emails, Web Search, Blogs, Prezi, Photoshop, iMovie etc. • In the next few slides you will see the different technologies I used and how they have helped me in the process and given me more skills and experience in my media project.
- 3. E-mailsEmail was a way in which I could send work to my teammates and inform them about the changes made to production and sending work such as screenshots/ scripts etc. We used e- mails as it was easy to interact with and upload work instantly to our blogs. Also very useful when sending large files and images. This is a progression from last years foundation portfolio as it was independent work so the use of e-mail wasn’t active, having used e-mail helped me understand that is just effective and useful when trying to contact someone. A advantage about using e-mails was I could enhance my our understanding of e-mails and how to access and download content via e-mail which will become very useful in the future.
- 4. Prezi • Prezi is a interactive presentation slide, I used Prezi in the research stages of production. As you can see from my blog I used Prezi when researching about horror stock characters/ Horror protagonist ideas and researching the construction of horror posters. I have used Prezi before when working on my media foundation portfolio, I was able to re-gain my skills using Prezi again and also develop them when having to create my own layout. I enjoyed using Prezi as it is different from using PowerPoint as it is all online and the layout of presentation is more professional. Also used Prezi at the evaluation stage of production as Prezi is a form expressing my idea creatively. • The advantage about using Prezi is you can express your ideas in many different ways depending on the layout and theme you present with.
- 5. YouTube • YouTube is a video sharing website that is viewed by millions of people each day. YouTube was a way of me and my group researching more into our idea for a film trailer and also planning what types of things could happen in the trailer e.g. A glass breaking (YouTube: how to make sugar glass tutorial). This was done both independently and as a group.
- 6. IMDB.com • This is a Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to films, television programs and video games. It allows you to research about the production company/ director/ actors/ taglines/ budget etc. In the research stages of my production IMDB was one of the most used websites I used as it helped me with researching all the horror films made and helped with comparing movies and seeing if our group idea was already a film, as we wanted to create something very different but real. Using IMDB helped inspire my group with coming up with new ideas. Using this website didn’t really enhance any of my skills as I have used this website before for other media reasons, but it did make me realise a lot of information is held on this website about films. I used this website as independent research into coming up with an idea to share with my group. • A advantages about using IMDB is that it is the most trusted internet movie database which would make my research must more valid than if all my researched information# was from one source (Wikipedia).
- 7. Photoshop • Photoshop is a graphic editing software. This is the second time I have used Photoshop as I had to use it when creating my project for my foundation media portfolio. This time using Photoshop was very different from last year as it was very independent based and I had to learn how to use certain tools but as I had someone on my team that knew a lot more about Photoshop, I wasn’t as full on but I did re-gain the skill I learnt using Photoshop again. • Photoshop was used in the research/ construction and production of our print media. It was the software that both the film poster and magazine was created on and then creating and layout of the typography of our title. • A advantage of using Photoshop is it is a professional software when creating print media such as magazine and film posters, being able to experience using these software will help us in the future if ever wanting to create some thing that can look legit. As not everyone can use photoshop.
- 8. Upload Site • The site we used to upload our work on to as part of our A2 media project is Blogger. This is a online publishing journal. Blogger is a new technology that I have used over the past 2 years as we did use Blogger for my foundation portfolio, I have been able to re-gain and develop my knowledge of using Blogger such as embedding URL so that they display the video pic on the timeline. Blogger was used in the construction, research, planning and evaluation of my production work as it is meant to document all my work towards my final product. • Construction Stage: making of our film poster/ magazine and trailer, it is a way of broadcasting and expressing our ideas of a horror film trailer. • Research Stage: This is uploading existing horror poster/ magazine and trailers, onto blogs to help us look back at what our media product can improve or adhere to (follow conventions).
- 9. Mac Computers • I used these computers throughout the whole process of my media production in school. Research: having to use search engines to gather information for the production. Also planning of the trailer was made throughout on the Mac computer using the software ‘Celtx’. The making of media production was done on a Mac PC, the print media film poster and magazine was made on the Mac Computer using Photoshop and the Trailer was also made on the Mac PC using the software iMovie. • Advantage about using Mac Computers is that they are very technical from normal HP/Dell PC enabling me to develop new skills and re-gain previous skills as I used these computers last year when working on my foundation portfolio in media. Having these skills of using Mac computers may help me in the future as I will be confident in working certain software and using certain keys such as screen-shotting.
- 10. Celtx • Celtx is a professional script writing (layout) software. This was my first time using Celtx to create a script, it was also used to plan and scudeulde filming times and a floor plan of were cameras may be set up when filming. Celtx was very useful as we used it as a structuring system for our production work, it allowed us to get things done in a certain time frame. You can see how we used Celtx in different ways to help us with our production on my blog. (screenshots) • We was only introduced to Celtx for our foundation portfolio, but we officially used it for this project as it was needed for the content we was creating (horror trailer). I learned a lot about Celtx such as how to create a basic script and how to highlight the meaningful things in the script that we as a group will have to follow when planning to film such as props/ setting/ characters etc. Also create a in- depth character profile. • A advantage of using Celtx is that I can now use the software confidently and create a professional script as I know have the knowledge and skill to. Also it kept my group structured with the time frame we was meant to film in. If it wasn’t for the plan film sudeduele most of our footage would not have been filmed.
- 11. iMovie
- 12. Cameras