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QUESTION 4
Using the internet in order to gain feedback from my
film was very useful and helped me out a lot, not only
because the internet is a very popular search engine,
therefore more of my target audience are likely to see
it, but also it made the whole process a lot easier.
I used different social networking sites such as
Facebook, by using web 2.0 it enabled me to gain
feedback a lot faster rather than gaining secondary
information through things such as questionnaires. This
therefore enabled me to make changes and re adjust
my film to conform more to what my target audience
were looking for.
By having the internet through the use of YouTube for example, this
also helped the process of making my film and ancillaries must more
easier and quicker, to the best ability possible. This is because as I
used YouTube to watch professional, already existing films that fitted
into the same hybrid genre as mine, it helped me, like mentioned in
my own YouTube video, gain different ideas. When finishing my film,
looking back at pre existing films such as Paranormal Activity and
Blair Witch Project i was able to compare my film to these in order to
see if it would be likely to appeal to my target audience.
The internet also enabled to to search for preexisting material of
film posters and magazine reviews in order to see the forms and
conventions of what they look like so I was able to follow these
conventions in order to gain a professional looking product.
Screen Shots of the use of the internet.
Despite the use of the internet and the different websites
helping me out through my media coursework process,
there is along with pros, various cons.
Pros:
Fast easy feedback
Different effective tools, eg Wordle
Helpful information
Cons:
Internet may be slow- not very helpful
Could gain feedback which isn’t very constructive, but
rather offensive and therefore it could offend people
Self taught
Due to there being feedback which can be
offensive to me as I have created a short film from
scratch, I wanted to get feedback from a group of
people who had never seen my film before in order
to get more views of my film from a different variety
of people.
Like shown in the post below, I showed my film to a
group of school students which I gained a lot of very
useful feedback from which I hadn’t particularly
heard before.
IMovie was also one of the most important tools which I used in
the making of my coursework. This is because this was the
programme, like mentioned in the previous presentation to make
my film.
At first I had never used the programme before, and so I didn’t
enjoy using it as I wasn’t really sure how to use it. However,
throughout the making of my short film I began to understand how
to use it, therefore I began to enjoy making my film and the editing
stages a lot
more.
Once I had made my film, in order to gain feedback I
used IMovie in order to edit any feedback which I received
if their was any pauses etc.
The second most important programme which I used was
Photoshop. This was because this was the programme in which I
created both of my ancillary pieces. As I had used this programme for
media last year I was familiar with it, however there were some
aspects which I needed to remind myself of as I had either not used it
last year, or I had forgot how to do it, I either asked peers in my class
how to do it, or I looked at Youtube tutorials. This helped me lot as I
was therefore able to know what to do and again go ahead in the
process of making both my movie poster and magazine review. I
really enjoyed making both of these as I was able to look at already
pre existing materials and see all of the usual codes and conventions
which you would find in both of these products and once I had
finished the process, again I was able to compare my items to
professional ones.
One of my most useful programmes which I used was
Slideshare, this was so I was able to create powepoints
in ‘Microsoft Word Powerpoint’ and then convert the film
in order for it to be able to be viewed onto my blog. I
think that it helped me out a lot, and also enabled
different aspects to show and evaluate my work rather
than to just post it straight to my blog.
The most important use of equipment that I used
throughout my whole media coursework process was my
camcorder. Despite me using my own, I had never before
had any need to use it, and therefore I didn’t particularly
know how to use it, or even how to upload any footage
from my camcorder to a computer. Therefore filming a
short film was likely to be a hard task for me to create ,
however, through the use of different preliminary tasks to
practice my camera skills, lighting and different shots
enabled me to get use to how to use the camcorder and
what would be effective within the hybrid genre that I was
likely to create.
The previous slide which held four different pictures were
screen shots from two of the preliminary filming's that I
created. I wanted to film as much as I could before I
created my film in order to not only understand how to
work everything, but also to make it as good as it could be.
The use of the camcorder helped me a lot as it enabled
me to actually shoot my film, and it stored all of the shots
which I created in one place if I needed to go back to them.
Not only this it was really easy to upload to the computer
through a fire wire cable that opened up the film in Imovie.