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P A N D E M I C

QUESTION 4

Tuesday, 30 April 13

T E C H N O L O G Y U S E D


Sony NEX 5 HD Camera and Camcorder

When constructing and also planning my trailer I used a camera that I already had. This camera is a 16 megapixel camera, that also has the ability of recording in HD video. The camera is able to be mounted on a tripod, so the camera can be kept steady which is important. For any shots that I do take handheld, the camera has an anti-shake function. I also used this to take some location photos.


Apple Macbook Air

For my whole project, I will be using my own laptop. I chose to do this as I have a lot of software that will work well for my trailer, and also I can take the work home to complete. I thought that this would be the most productive way to work, and having suitable software and not using it would be silly. I have multiple programs on here, that are all suitable for the task set. I will talk about all of these later.


Apple iPhone

My phone played a large part in my project from organising photo shoots, filming, and also taking photos of potential locations. I also ended up using this to film a couple of scenes as it has a good camera on it capable of recording in HD.

I also in my evaluation used it to show people my trailer for them to give me their opinion.



R E S E A R C H A N D

P L A N N I N G


Wordpress

When starting my research at the start of the course, I went back to the blog that I used in AS for my Music magazine project. I found that this free blog service is quick and easy to use, and fairly user friendly. Through this course, particularly close to deadlines, the website has been having some problems, becoming fairly hard to use. For the most part, embedding videos into the blog is fairly easy, and proves to be very beneficial as I was analysing trailers on YouTube, it helped to put them in the blog to make more sense of the analysis. Also, Wordpress allows me to receive comments from other students and teachers, which helps in terms of improving my work.


As said before, I used Youtube to find trailers to analyse. Youtube is an open video website allowing people to upload videos such as home movies and also, allows production studios to upload their official trailers. Youtube also allows you to take the video and embed it within a blog or website. The integration between Youtube and Wordpress.

One problem with this website that it takes time for videos to buffer depending on how fast the internet connections, which at school can be fast or very slow, and also, due to anyone being allowed to upload videos on to Youtube, you can get a lot of unrelated videos in searches, or unofficial trailers.



C O N S T R U C T I O N


Wordpress

I used Wordpress throughout construction as this allowed me to make quick posts as to where I am in my progress. I could make quick posts about changes in my trailer, and also screenshot images of what I have been doing and the required stages that it takes to create things such as voiceovers and also the stages of my poster/magazine.

As said before, it was at this point that Wordpress started to go wrong, not allowing me to post, but I just saved the posts in Pages, awaiting a time that it would allow me to upload the posts to Wordpress. Also, due to the posts being chronological, I was able to go back and look as to how the trailer idea progressed.


When constructing my trailer, using Youtube to upload videos was a great help. Again, there people can comment on the videos giving their opinion, and also rate them, but along with this, the videos can be embedded in to Wordpress and my blog.

One major problem that I came across was that because I had recorded my trailer in HD, uploading the videos to Youtube too forever. I had to scale down the quality to allow quick uploads.


iTunes

Been using iTunes extensively. Through my whole trailer, I have been using audio downloaded from youtube (which I will talk about later). All of these downloads were imported in to iTunes, then retrieved in my movie editing software from here. iTunes was essentially used as storage for all audio.

Garageband

When ever I downloaded audio that needed to be edited, rather than, editing it within the movie editing software, I decided to edit it within Garageband. This is audio editing software produced by Apple. There were multiple pieces of audio edited within here including the song and also the news report audio. I also used this to edit and record my voiceovers.


Photoshop Elements

I used Photoshop Elements to create a part of my poster and Magazine cover. I created the part with all the names in this program then exported it. I also used this program to edit my photos that I used for the magazine and also the poster. I intensified the contrast and cooled the image to give a sterile feel to the photos.

www.listentoyoutube.com

I used this website to convert Youtube videos to MP3 files. I did this to use songs from Youtube. I then transferred them in to iTunes and finally in to iMovie. Sometimes I needed to edit the song or audio downloaded, so I edited it in Garageband.


http://www.listentoyoutube.com


www.keepvid.com

I used this website to download videos from youtube. I used these videos in sections such as the news reports. I found this website to be easy to use by just copying the URL of the youtube link in to the website then clicking download. As easy as that.




iMovie

Due to me using my Mac, I decided to create my trailer on here. I did this as all the software works seamlessly, so there is no exporting and converting, as all of these programs work together. I can insert songs from iTunes, and also insert songs from Garageband. The program has a wide range of effects, with benefits such as Smooth Motion, Quicktime Editing, Sound Distortion, with multiple video effects. While I may have been able to use a program such as Final Cut Pro, or Premier Pro, I decided not to. The first reason being the seamless integration with all the other programs that I used such as iTunes and Garageband. While this is a program that comes with every Mac, the program has all of the features that I would have used in a program such as Final Cut Pro.


KeynoteI have used Keynote (Apple’s own version of PowerPoint) to create idea maps of my trailer. I also used this to create the final shot with all the names and production information. I then imported this in to iMove as a HD image. This is a fairly simple program, but again the integration of the programs within each other is very good. Also this helped create the images for my ident

PagesI have used Pages (Apple’s version of Word and Publisher in one) to do multiple things. The main two things I did in this program was partially create my poster and my magazine over. I also created the ‘Pandemic’ logo that you can see at the start of this presentation.



A N A L Y S I S


Wordpress

I used Wordpress again to post all analysis as this will be the area that my marks are awarded me on. I think this is the easiest way to post as I have been using it throughout, so I am comfortable with how the blog works. I was also able to embed all the things that I needed to embed.

I used Youtube to host all videos that I recorded of me talking and of me interviewing people. The reasons that I used Youtube, are the ones previously in this presentation


Keynote

I used this to create presentations that are to be transferred in to slide share presentations like this one.

Pages

I used this to create my questionnaire, and also compile the date that was returned.


Slideshare

I have used slideshare in my evaluation to create these presentations within my blog. I did this by creating the presentation in Keynote, converting to PDF then exporting to slideshare. The great thing about this; similar to Youtube, I can embed the video to my blog.

Soundcloud

I used soundcloud to host the audio recordings that I took. I did these in Garageband, exported to iTunes, then uploaded the song to Soundcloud. I then, like Slideshare and Youtube, can embed the whole thing to Wordpress.


iTunesI used iTunes simply to export voice recordings to soundcloud

Garageband

I used Garageband to record voice recording for my analysis. I found this program very easy to use as it is very obvious how to use. It also works well to export to iTunes allowing you to create easy MP3’s of voiceovers able to export to Soundcloud.

iMovie

I used iMovie to create videos of myself talking through my trailers. I used this as I have used it through my project so am comfortable of how to use it.


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