question 4
How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?
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weebly
Our group used Weebly one of the key sources to construct our media portfolio, by using new media technologies. The contents of our media coursework is broadcasted onto the website, making sure organisation and a easy way of maintaining our work together. We've also used the website to install all our research, planning and evaluation. The website itself was easily organised, so we could use two buttons listed at the top named 'Build' and 'Pages' to design the whole website. The 'Build' buttons enable the us to create an authentic webpage. For instance, we were able to add titles, text, images and also YouTube videos into our website. Its used to create our page, to make it more attractive. The 'Pages' button mainly enable us to organise the pages in whatever order we wanted it to be, as well as making main pages also known as 'Standard pages' or making the contents that go under these standard web pages. There are also a variety of themes that could used from bright colours or dark colour depending on the genre and these of the trailer. Consequently, Weebly was also effective for us to connect to other websites such as Prezi, slideshare and mainly YouTube. We discovered this simple and effective, as all the work we've created for research, planning and evaluation was on one website, that would enable us to connect to other sites that would be effective and imperative to creating a completed portfolio. Weebly is a great new media technology that we were fully reliable on the construction of our coursework.
clip converter
This tool was demonstrated within our trailer which enabled us to import our sound effects. The screencast video that's imported on our Home page shows how we successfully used clip converter to our trailer, which we found easy and simple to use. Firstly we wanted to find a YouTube video with eerie suspenseful music to create an uneasy emotion for our audience keeping them engaged. Then we click the share icon to copy link, once copied we found this website which we pasted the copied link into the black bar. Then we converted the clip into the format named 'MP3' for the sound, after we waited until the converted clip is downloaded into our files and ready to be used. We then dragged the downloaded icon on the bottom left of the screen into our trailer on Final Cut Pro; we were able to edit the length of the sound and add additional sound to the converted soundtrack.
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photoshop
Photoshop is a software we used to edit and complete images, to create our professional looking poster and magazine cover. Its essential of new media technology, as this softwares enable us to add and edit images, texts and more. Photoshop is the most complex software we've discovered, as the complications of adding diffrent features of our poster/magazine one by the other. We mainly used Photoshop for our Planning, for instance looking for a suitable colour scheme. However, we didn't use this software for research, the software also enables us to edit images such as buffering blemishes, softening skin, in the procedure of creating high quality magazine and poster. We looked at several broken glass images to add to our poster, as we wanted our audience to see the gist of what our trailer would be about; however we wanted to ensure that the broken glass looked as realistic as possible in order to keep our audience stimulated.
final cut pro
Another effective new media technology we used in order to create our trailer is Final Cut Pro. The benefit of using this film editor software to create our media, is that our group were well-known in using it to create media. For instance, we used this software in the creation of our Opening title Sequence, so subsequently we had been enlightened of the techniques and shortcuts through the year to help design out final project. During the procedures of creating our trailer, we had to make a New Project on Final cut, to begin editing recorded video clips, sound effects and text all together. Furthermore, we wanted a professional and realistic looking trailer, its essential to add effects, sounds and texts as these contents are used by successful trailers which maintains their audiences minds and emotions keeping them to watch more and find our more of the upcoming movie.
youtube
Youtube was mostly used as an effective media technology for the construction of our media, which includes our planning and research of our trailer. We used YouTube to upload our research of our targeted audience and what they favour, what they wanted to see and their liked genre. This then helped us to make our Final trailer 'FROM ME TO YOU'. We uploaded our trailer onto YouTube, so this makes it simple for us to upload our trailer into our Weebly website. YouTube also enabled us to figure out what our trailer would look like and be about, which we watched several trailer in our to make up our conclusion. YouTube is one of the most effective websites we sued to research videos that enabled us to create our trailer 'FROM ME TO YOU'
PREZI
PREZI is essential in parts of our research and planning construction of our trailer, magazine cover and poster; as it enables us to make a presentation to highlight our journey and the information and research we gathered for our trailer 'FROM ME TO YOU'. Prezi is an online website that enables you to create a mind map of your project, the site also allows you to add videos, images and your able to add your own theme to your mind map. The site helped maintain our ideas and research into one mind map, which enabled us to situate all of our ideas in one place in its simple and effective format; without having the thought of losing it all. Using Prezi also enables us to highlight certain aspects of research that is essential in creating our trailer.
https://prezi.com/view/1LSQmxom7nG6eSAmOHh2/
apple mac
The Apple mac was a very key media technology in constructing our project, as were able to admission the software Final Cut Pro, as we wouldn't have been to able to admission it on an ordinary computer. The Apple Mac is used by many film industries to make their films, so subsequently this was essential in the production of our professional looking trailer. Furthermore, we had to adjust and learn particular features or short cuts on the Mac to ensure the construction of our trailer more simple for us. Moreover, as a group we discovered that it was simple to use, and didn't have much difficulties using the hardware.
camera (sony a7)
The camera was also another very key piece of technology in the construction of our trailer, as we used this specific camera to capture all images and videos for our trailer, movie poster and magazine cover. The quality was high and technique of using this camera was simple, with the use of Apple Mac which enables with the creativity of our trailer. This camera was professional when filming all the clips, also with the help of the Tripod it helped made our clips even more polished. For instance, we were able to alter the camera to fit the type of lighting that we were filming in, whether the exposure was too light or too dark. Furthermore, we were also able to zoom in to capture the details of things without having to move closer or lose quality. Moreover, we were also used this camera to capture photos for the production and construction of our magazine and poster, as we also felt that it was very simple yet professional to use.
quicktime player
Quicktime Player was the software which we used in order to produce the screencasting video clips. We were able to record the screen, audio record or both in the same time. The screen and audio recording will be able to capture the audio of the individual (with microphone) and both enables the recording of the screen and capture of the sound. Screen recording was simple to use and shoed diffrent procedures which could be dome on the website and sections of software which we used. Subsequently, this was used to display the user how to finish the actions and then with Final Cut software we were able to then edit the video adding sound and text over the top of the screen casting. This was efficient to do as when screen recording created a file which we were able to save, then upload into the software. Moreover, QuickTime Player is an efficient accessible software on Mac that can be used to show people what a user is completing on screen. its beneficial for creating tutorials and can also be used to capture sound clips, as its simple to use, easy to upload.
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