Wednesday 23 December 2009

Evaluation Part 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

These are some of the new media technologies i have used throughout the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages:


We used a video hosting site 'Photobucket' to host our final cut as well as our rough cuts and initial sample scenes so we could then upload these clips onto our blogs. This enabled us to upload our videos and clips easy. This way of uploading videos was a lot more efficient than it was to upload videos on the old settings on blogger as it took less than a minute whereas had we been using the old settings on the blogger it could have taken up to two hours. There was also a quick upload time when we were putting our footage on 'Photobucket' which helped to make the whole process a lot quicker.
The main new media technology that i have used for the process of my project was the 'Blogger' itself. 'Blogger' enabled us to store our work efficiently and it was easy to access. 'Blogger' enabled us to upload our video clips of our rough cuts and our final cut whereas, had we been storing our work on paper we wouldnt have been able to incorporate our videos in with our actual work but 'Blogger' makes this possible for us. Aswell as typing up our notes on the blog i have also been using the tool to add links which enabled me to add links to phrases or words which would then take me to another web page which perhaps shows the reader what i'm talking about in visual rather than just writing.
Another new media technology which i have used are the search engines, websites such as 'imdb.com' and 'Wikipedia'. With these i was able to research the genre horror as well as researching different horror films, to look at casting, Directors, Release date, tagline and genre. Although i did do some research through books i found it a lot easier to do my research through these search engines as they were efficient and you could find the infomation you needed in little time whereas researching through books and other medias like them are fairly time consuming. I used these search engines for my research as well as my evaluation as i have been linking these websites to the different films mentioned throughout my evaluation. I have also used 'Wikipedia' when i was researching for my institutional context. I was able to find out lots of infomation at one time about the company 'Youtube', this website gave me more infomation then any other which made it a lot easer and less time consuming.
For our magazine and poster we used software 'Photoshop' this was very useful in the construction of our ancillary texts as it enabled us to add filters and effects to our original image, 'Photoshop' enabled us to incorporate many different images and merge them together so we then ended up with a final image, We were able to add text to our images efficiently. In 'Photoshop' i used the lasoo tool to cut around an image we wanted, without the backgrond. We were also able to use the shape tool to create stars on the reviews on the poster, this meant we could have shapes that were the correct shape and size of what we wanted. We wouldnt have been able to do any of these effects/tools had we been doing our ancillary tasks by hand and it would have been more time consuming.
We used imovie 6 to upload our footage on to which we then transferred to Final Cut Express 4. The upload to imovie 6 was quick and easy as was the transfer to Final Cut Express 4. Once our footage was on Final Cut Express we were able to sort out our clips, deciding which clips we were going to use. After we had done this we were then able to cut and edit our clips using the cutting tool which was fairly easy to use. Final Cut Express 4 also enabled us to add filters, transitions, visual effects, sound effects and text on to our film trailer. As well as using this software for the construction of our product we also used it for the research and evaluation. We produced an animatic using Final Cut Express which was our first proposal to our media class (aged 17-18) where we showed them what our inital narrative idea was. Ive also used this software for my evaluation as i have incorporated some short clips of some clips which we were going to use and didnt or showing how we have changed different clips. This enables me to show the reader/audience what im discussing in a visual format.
We used two different pieces of audio software to help us produce a suitable soundtrack for our film trailer. With two composers we used Cubase and Dance Ejay. We used this software for the construction stage mainly.These enabled us to play many different instruments through a keyboard which was ideal as we wouldnt have been able to bring toegther many different people who all play different instruments in the time space we had.
When actually taking our footage we used DV camcorders, which used digital video tapes. These ebabled us to take footage efficiently and we were able to capture the shots we wanted. However one problem we did find with these camcorders was that the sound that we captured on them wasnt all that good. We were able to zoom in and out of a shot smoothly using the zoom tool.
We also used a scanner to upload infomation that we had on paper such as the storyboards and the production schedule. This was fast and efficient and meant we were able to include our storyboards and production schedules within our blog.
All of the above software was used through a mac computer. The macs enabled us to use the above software whereas if we had been using a PC we wouldnt have been able to use them. We were able to upload footage and photos onto the mac computers qucik and effieciently as well as storing our work in our individual folders.







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