Evaluation Question 4 –How did you use new media

technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation

stages?

Research and planning stage

My use of Media technologies in the Research and Planning stage

The types of media technologies that we used in our research and planning stage were a large variety. Here are the types that we used:- slide share, sound cloud , internet explorer , popplet, YouTube and Mahara.

The media technologies that I mentioned above are what we used to help us in the stage of planning and researching for our final product which was ‘The Passage’. Internet explorer was used to search for existing horror films. YouTube was used to search for teaser trailers similar to ours so that we could get some inspirations. We used slide share to note down any of the plans we had for our final product. We also used Mahara, which was a really important media technology because it was where we kept an up to date version of what we had been doing in our lessons and we submitted items to Mahara like teaser trailers similar to ours and what embedding them and then analyzing them. This was really good for us because on Mahara it meant that we kept all of our research and planning work in one place so that it never got lost and we could also go back to look at it. Our ideas were all inspired from previous teaser trailers that were in the same genre to ours which was genre and we analyzed them and toke notes done like when each certain title appeared and when certain sounds were heard. This all made a contribution to our final product and was a really useful stage because it meant that we had professional existing work that we could look at for help and inspiration.

Internet ExplorerWe used internet explorer to gather information on existing teaser trailer , posters and magazine covers that are part of the same genre as our film which is horror. On internet explorer the search engine we used we Google. On Google we researched existing posters to find out all the conventions that we needed to include and we did the same with this for our magazine cover. Another reason we used Google was to find existing teaser trailers so that we could analyze them and get inspiration from them and find out what conventions we needed to include in our teaser trailer and where about they need to be.

Mahara

We used Mahara to post blog entries on our research and planning progress. The use of Mahara was really useful as it allowed us to keep of our research in one place so that we could’t loose it. On Mahara we posted existing teaser trailers that were from the horror genre like ours and we researched existing magazine covers and posters. On our blogs we also entered in feedback from our class peers that we had received so this helped us improve our products.

YouTubeOn YouTube it allowed us to watch existing teaser trailers similar to ours in the same genre to get ideas and it also meant that we could post our animatic and our rough cut on there so our class peers could see it and we could receive feedback. It helped us to analyze previous existing teaser trailers and gather up some ideas for our own teaser trailer. We posted our final cut on YouTube. We then received feedback from our class peers and this was really useful to see what they thought about our teaser trailer and our poster and magazine cover. We also recorded videos of our class peers giving us feedback on our animatic so it meant that we could upload this on to our YouTube channel and come back to it during this stage to help us build on our ideas and make improvements.

Post production

Post production

Media that was used in our post production:

The post production stages of our products meant that we used media like Garage band, sound cloud and Final cut pro X. We used garage band, Final cut pro x to create the sound and edit the footage of our teaser trailer. Then to create our poster and magazine cover we used adobe Photoshop and illustrator.

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop was the media that we used to edit our images that were featured on our magazine cover and our poster. We edited the image of the villain female character on the poster to a black and white effect to fit the color scheme and then on the magazine cover we edited the boys eyes so they looked a lot whiter so they caught the viewers eyes and then we made the female villains characters eyes a lot whiter too. Adobe Photoshop allowed us to be able to erase the background from where the actual picture was taken and add in another background of what we had chosen and taken from somewhere else. This was really useful because it meant that we could edit out the wall that I was standing in front of when the image was taken.

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator was the media that we used to help us product our final products of our magazine cover and our poster. Illustrator allowed us to over lay our images with text and allowed to position our products how we wanted them so we could put each convention in the right place to make them look professional.

Final cut pro XFinal cut pro X was the media that we created all of our research and planning products on like our rough cuts, animatic and our feedback and then we used it to create our final cut teaser trailer. Final cut was a really good media to use because it allowed us to add in sound tracks , voice overs . It then also allowed us to create titles and subtitles for our teaser trailer to add to the impact. The final thing that it let us do was that it enabled us to put all of our footage together easily and was a good media because it meant that we could cut things that we didn't’t want quickly so that it wisent time consuming and then it also allowed us to edit our footage so we could create a night effect like we did in our final cut of our teaser trailer so that it looked like night time. Final cut pro x was also a really good way of sharing our final product and our research and planning products because it had such a easy way of sharing our products as there was simply a share button to YouTube that added it straight onto our channels.

Evaluations

Question 1 = YouTube

For our evaluation question one we used YouTube. For question one the question was: In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?. On YouTube we then added our poster and magazine cover to a video of our teaser trailer , then we went onto the editing part of our video and added in annotations on conventions of media products to do with our final products. This shows how all three of our products are similar.

Question 2 = Slide share

For our question two evaluation question the question was : How effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?. Slide share allowed me to create a power point on power point and abled me to upload it onto there so that I could embed it onto my portfolio blog.

Question 3 = Popplet

For our question 3 evaluation question the question was: What have you learned from your audience feedback?. When using Popplet it allowed me to be able to create a spider diagram on each of my products and then I could link on all the feedback that I had received and explain how useful it was to me and why.