By Joseph Dunkerley

HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE

CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION

STAGES?

Throughout the course I used a number of media technologies. These technologies were used in almost every aspect of the course including the construction of the main tasks, research, planning and evaluation stages. The technologies were massively useful as would have been unable to do the majority of the vital sections of the work for my projects. Each piece of technology I used had a different function in my project and were used in different sections of it. To fully explain how I used each technology, one must look at each different technology separately.

INTRODUCTION

Blogger is a blog creation website that is owned by Google. I used blogger to create the blog that all of my coursework was uploaded to. It was extremely useful throughout the project and provided me with a large amount of tools to create an impressive looking blog and blog posts. I already had experience with Blogger as we had used it for our coursework last year, so I found it very easy to use. It was used throughout the entirety of the project.

BLOGGER

Slideshare is a website that allows people to upload their PowerPoint presentations and display them on the internet. It was simple to use and allowed me to present my work in a diff erent way. One of its most important uses to me was allowing me to upload the presentation that my group had shown to the class to pitch our fi lm idea. In addition to that, it is what is currently being used to display this PowerPoint document.

SLIDESHARE

Facebook is a massively popular social networking website. I used it to contact my group members outside of school time, arrange times for fi lming and get audience feedback. I was able to do this because Facebook is so popular that the majority of people that I know use it, thus allowing for great advantages in communication with others.

FACEBOOK

Sony Vegas was the primary piece of video editing software that was used by my group. It is a professional standard video editing tool and was used to construct the entire final fi lm trailer. It allowed us to position the clips on a timeline, add text scenes, remove unwanted audio, add special eff ects, add sound eff ect and narration, add nice looking transitions and render out the video in a high quality format. All of my group members were able to broaden their understanding of the software throughout the project and were all able to have an input into the editing of the video.

SONY VEGAS

Serif Movieplus is a program that is used to edit video footage. Since I was already using a better piece of fi lm making software, Serif Movieplus only had a small impact on my project. I used it to edit the audience feedback videos that I did. I did this because it was the only piece of movie editing software that my school had. It was easy to use but was highly limited in features, it was ideal for editing the audience feedback footage as it did not require much editing.

SERIF MOVIEPLUS

Google Chrome is a popular internet browser. I used it to access the internet at my house and do a lot of my research. It allowed me to easily navigate around the internet and discover a vast amount of useful websites. Without Google Chrome I would have had to have used Internet Explorer, which is an internet browser that is significantly slower than Google Chrome.

GOOGLE CHROME

Internet Explorer is another internet browser. It is one of the slowest browsers, therefore I often use Google Chrome. However I had to use it for my research that I did at school since my school did not have any other internet browsers installed and their restrictions did not allow us to download and install anything.

INTERNET EXPLORER

The Canon 1100D is the camera that my group used to take the majority of our video footage with. In addition to this it was used to take the pictures for our location scout and ancillary texts. It was highly useful as it could be carry by hand, produced professional looking videos and pictures, could be fi tted onto a tripod and allowed the images and video to be transferred to a laptop or computer with ease.

CANON 1100D

Youtube is a popular video sharing website. My group and I used it to upload the video that we produced to it. It was massively useful as the videos uploaded to it could be played in high quality settings, the videos were made instantly available on a wide range of devices including computers and mobile phones and the video could be embedded thus allowing me to show them straight from my blog.

YOUTUBE

Cinema 4D is a piece of software that is used to model 3D images and create animations. It is a very high standard piece of software. I used it to create the introduction animation for my group’s fictional video studio. However since we changed the name of our fictional studio, we ended up not using the animation that I had created using Cinema 4D. Last year I used the software to create the 3D texts for my music magazine so I was already very familiar with the software.

CINEMA 4D

Adobe Photoshop is a piece of software that is used for editing images. I already had a lot experience with the software since producing interesting graphics is a hobby of mine, I also used the software last year for the creation my music magazine. I used Adobe Photoshop to create both my final fi lm poster and magazine cover. It provided me with a massive amount of tools with which I could use to create professional looking images and therefore allowed me a huge amount of creative freedom.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Serif Draw Plus is a piece of graphic design software. I used it to plan out my ideas for the fi lm poster and magazine cover since my school had uninstalled their version of Adobe Photoshop. I then took these rough ideas that I had created in Serif Draw Plus and made them into products that were significantly better using the copy of Adobe Photoshop that I have at my house. I did this because I am more familiar with Adobe Photoshop and feel that Serif Draw Plus does not allow as much creativity as it.

SERIF DRAW PLUS

I used shirtmockup.com to create an example of a piece of fi lm merchandise. It is website that allows people to display their images on a virtual shirt. It was interesting to see what the merchandise for my group’s fi lm may look like, but overall shirtmockup had little use in my project.

SHIRTMOCKUP

Audacity is a free audio editing piece of software. It was used to edit the music for my trailer, record the narration for it and to export the audio fi les in a suitable format. It played a major part in the construction of my group’s final fi lm trailer.

AUDACITY

FL Studio is a piece of software that is used to create music and other audio. I used it to generate a set of computer generated voices that read the script for our fi lm trailer. Overall its impact on the project was small, but it allowed me to present my work in a diff erent format and was therefore useful to m.

FL STUDIO

Soundcloud is a website that audio can be uploaded to. I used it to display the set of computer generated voices that read out my fi lm trailer’s script. It was very useful as I was able to embed the audio fi le into one of my blogger posts and thus display my work in a diff erent way to usual.

SOUNDCLOUD

Macromedia Flash 8 is a piece of software that is primarily used for animating, drawing and programming. Since I was already familiar with the software, I used it to create the diagram for the photography studio that my group created. However it only had a limited amount of use in my project as that was the only piece of work that I used it for.

MACROMEDIA FLASH 8