QUESTION 4
How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?
For this question we will be showing what we have learned about technology in the creation of our media products. I will be showing the software's and hardware's that we have used during the Research (Summer Work + Development) , Planning (Pre-Production + Production), Construction (Movie Teaser Trailer - Production/Filming), second Construction (Movie Poster & Magazine - Print Production/Advertising) and Evaluation (Post Production).
MAC COMPUTERS
Macs were essential in the whole creation of our media products, it gave us access to software that is uniquely designed for media production. The computer allows you to edit videos and search the internet. This piece of hardware is essential through all stages of the creation of our media products. They are where we were able to gain access to essential media software's.
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Survey Monkey is webite that allows you to make a simple survey. This means you are able to create a set of queationsbfor people to awnser. They are mutiple choice questions and you can add images to make things clearer for people takong the survey. You can share the survey on many different social networking sites to promote the survey to get more people to take it making it more reliable.
RESEARCH (SUMMER WORK + DEVELOPMENT STAGE)
SUMMER WORK - TRAILER
KINEMASTER
For one of our summer work one member of our group used Kinemaster to edit his trailer. This is an Android mobile free video editor app which allows for the user to easily edit videos. This mobile software has several easy to learn and understand features such as trimming and splitting of the videos. This allows for your own recorded videos and sound to be added the trailer and below shows further information.
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SUMMER WORK - MAGAZINE
PHOTOSHOP
Adobe Photoshop is a software that allows you to edit and create images. It is the software that was used in all areas during the creation of our media products. The software is used on Apple macs and has a bunch of different features. The photo editor allows you to create many images if different sizes and allows you to create them into different type of files such as JPEG and PNG.
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SAMSUNG GALAXY S6 CAMERA
Samsung Galaxy S6 is a smartphone. Because of the advancement in technology smartphones usually come with a camera. Most of them have a camera on both the front and back of the mobile device. Samsung Galaxy S6 has one of the best camera's around and allows you to both record and take photographs. Below is the two images that was used for one of our summer work projects. One for the poster and one for the magazine. Also the trailer that was recording by through this mobile device is also shown below. This was also part of our summer work.
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WONDERSHARE
Wondershare is an online video editor. You can trim and sound to videos and was used by one of our members to create their summer work trailer. The software is on both windows and mac making it easy access for everyone. The software common among people when wanting to edit their videos but the software is still good software that has easy navigation and allows you to easily edit videos.
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WEEBLY
Weebly is a software that allows you to create a website easily. It allows you to add to simply place different elements such as titles and images which are the basic. This is where our productions teams website will be created. All work done by are members will be added to the website via weebly. The easy navigation and easy to learn software makes things easy when creating the website and adding new elements to it.
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HOW TO UPLOAD AN IMAGE ON WEEBLY
PHOTOSHOP
CREATING THE LOGO
Whatsapp is a mobile phone app that allows you to with people other the internet by only having their mobile number. This means that you are able to send messages, send files and most recently call. This allowed for easy communication between our group. This is because on Whatsapp you can create groups which means messages are sent a viewed by only the members. This allowed us to keep up to date with what are group were doing or maybe ask for feedback on the work. It also helped with our audience research as it allowed us to ask people questions quickly.
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TEAM PROFILES
PHOTOSHOP
HORROR GENRE
Google is an online search engine that allows you to search for almost anything. By typing in a word google gives you millions of different results to give you information about what you are searching for. Google is used when you what to find out more information about something. You can also look for photos, places through a map and videos which is run by YouTube which is a Google bought company. Google is used in almost all task and below is just an example on how it has helped with our work.
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Textual Analysis
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a website that gives you information about a millions of different things. This has allowed us to research on film titles and learn the key information about them. When searching for something on Google, Wikipedia is mostly the first site that will appear in your result. This shows that Wikipedia is lots of information which has allowed us to research for real media.
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CONCEPT & TREATMENT
PREZI
Prezi is an online presentation software. It has a unique of presenting information. It allows you to add text and images for you to be able to present to people. We used it to present our two film ideas to our classmates. It allowed us to show the key areas of our final two film ideas and gain feedback on which one to go forward with.
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PLANNING (PRE-PRODUCTION + PRODUCTION STAGE)
STORYBOARD & ANIMATIC
ADOBE PREMIER PRO
Premier Pro is a software that allows you to edit videos. The video editor is used mainly on Macs but can also be used on Windows. We have used Premier Pro in a lot of areas during the creation of our media products. The software also allows you to use images and add sounds to create a video. The videos and be of many different qualities and exported into many different formats.
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Epson Perfection V370 Photo Scanner
To be able to upload our drawn storyboard onto Weebly we needed to scan the drawings. We used a Epson printer that allowed us to get our drawn images onto the Macs we used. All we needed to do next was to use weebly to upload the images we scanned. We also uploaded the scanned images when creating our animatic.
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CAMERA - 600D
This camera was what we as a group used majority of the time to take photographs with. The camera is easy to use and has many features. With 18 Megapixels the camera was easy to use when taking photos during the creation of our media products. Below are the photos that we took using this camera for our storyboard and animatic,
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After doing the drawn storyboard and turning it into an animatic we decided that we could also do photo versions of the shots we planned to do. This gave us an early was of how it would be when trying to get specific shots through different camera techniques. On the right is the slideshow of some of the images we took using the 600D camera. We were able to take many different images because of the many features the camera had. For example we were still able to take a good photo of someone running.
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AUDIENCE RESEARCH
SURVEY MONKEY
Survey monkey is a website that allows you to easily create surveys. You can create a set of questions for people to answer. These questions are usually multiple choice questions and you can add pictures which makes things easier for the person taking the survey. Survey monkey also allows you to share your survey through social networking sites, this allows you to get more people to take your survey this can allow for your research data to be more reliable. The results of your survey are shown in many ways by survey monkey making it easy for you to analyse your data. They are shown through bar charts and also pie charts.
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WHATSAPP/IMESSAGE
iMessage is an Apple app that allows you to communicate with your friends and family. Because it is an Apple app it is only available for Apple products such as an iPhone, iPad or Mac. It allows you to send messages to people by having their phone number and also allows you to send videos, voice notes and pictures. We used iMessage to send people our survey. This allowed us to get more people to take our survey thus making our research data more sufficient.
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IPHONE 5C CAMERA
iPhone 5C is a mobile phone that was created by Apple. This is the same company as the one that creates the iMacs, this allowed for us to easily transfer work and files from the Macs to our phones. iPhone has a camera on both the back and the front. Even though the phone does not have a camera that is as good as a Samsung or a Cannon product we were still able to record and make good quality videos. This is shown below, through using a iPhone 5C we were able to record a video to evaluate our audience research.
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PRINT DESIGN
GOOGLE IMAGES
CAMERA - 600D
KINO FLOWhen using the the camera to take photos for our print design we used the Kino Flo. This is simply a light that is used to increase the brightness of an image while taking it. The images to the right show how we used the Kino Flo to take good images. Using this equipment allowed us to take bright images despite using a dark black background. Also using this equipment allowed us to give our image a common horror convention of a bright light in darkness.
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MOODBOARD
PHOTOSHOP
SHOOTING SCRIPT & LOCATION RECEE
IMDB
IMDb is a website that has all the information about a film. All the information about a film can be found on this site. You can see a full list of the cast and crew and also they have a star review system. This means that you can leave feedback on a film or get other people opinion on a film.
IMDb was essential because they are a reliable source when researching horror films. For the production stage every task required us to research real media text. This helped in the creation of ur media products. |
CAMERA - 600D
We again used the Cannon 600D to take photographs of our filming location. This was made easy because the camera easily recognise what type of mode to use and allows for good high quality images to be taken. This was for our location recce task.
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CAMERA WORK
WEEBLY/YOUTUBE
CAMERA - 7D
For recording videos we used the Canon 7D. This was a a great camera that allowed us to record great videos and also be attached to many different additional equipment. With the ability to record in 1080p you are able to record almost anything with this camera in great quality. Below is some of the equipment we used while working and practicing our camera techniques. Further below are several videos that we recorded using both this camera and the equipment below.
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Shoulder Rig |
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A shoulder rig allows you to rest the camera to your shoulders. This means by clipping it in you can have the equipment rest on your shoulder and still take good shots. This was useful when taking hand held and POV shots.
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By attaching the camera you are able to record many different camera movements quickly. The wheels on this piece of equipment allows you to record movement quickly remotely. This was especially useful for panning and hand held shots.
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COSTUME & MAKEUP
YOUTUBE
Youtube is a software that allows you to to watch videos. With millions of videos uploaded to YouTube a minute there is always something new to watch. Anyone is able to use and upload to youtube for free which means you can easily find tutorials and walkthroughs made by regular people. As well as researching through youtube we also used it to upload our trailer. This meant if we wanted someone to view our trailer, they could easily use youtube to watch it.
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SOUND DESIGN
PREMIER PRO
GARAGEBAND
Garageband is an Apple only software which allows you to create your own sound or music. The software is easy to use and was essential when we were researching the sounds we were going to use in our trailer. A musical instrument is not always needed and the software allows you to use your keyboard as a piano. Below are just a few of the sounds that we were going to use in our trailer.
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This bell drum sound was going to be used in the beginning of the trailer.
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This was just one of the many thuds that we used in our trailer. They were used a lot when there was a cut in the trailer.
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Drones were used in almost every part of the trailer and this drone was one of the few that was used.
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Construction (Movie Magazine & Poster)
DAFONT
Dafont is a website that allows you to download and add new fonts to your computer. You are given millions of different fonts to choose from and they are separated for you in categories for you to easily find the right font for you. After downloading the font we were able to use the fonts on photoshop and in both our movie poster and magazine. This allowed us to give our work a unique feel to it with its own font
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MAGAZINE DEVELOPMENT
POSTER DEVELOPMENT
TRAILER DEVELOPMENT
CAMERA 7D
TRIPOD |
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We used the tripod for many shots when recording shots for our trailer. He helped us to take shots and to keep the camera still. We were also able to change the angle of the camera which allowed us take high and low angle shots.
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As it clearly says in the name this equipment is used to record tracking shot. We used it for our trailer a lot, especially in the beginning of the trailer. This is shown in the video below which is one of the shots we recorded using the tripod.
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FINAL CUT PRO
Final Cut Pro is a software that allows for you to edit videos. The software is only available on Apple Macs which means Windows users will not be able to access this software. Apple have described their software as "a more advanced take on pro editing." The software has an easy to understand layout which was way we decided to use this software to edit our trailer instead of Adobe Premiere Pro.
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Conclusion
Overall media technologies were used in all stages that created our media products. We all discovered new hardware's and software's that we were not previously aware of and also we became aware of how effective they were. Without media technologies we would not have been able to make our media products at the best of our abilities. However two software were the most valuable in the creation of our media products and without them it would not have been possible to both create our work and present it. This was Weebly and Adobe Photoshop CC.