Below are some new media technologies that I have used to help construct, research, plan and evaluate stages throughout my media product. They have helped me to improve my skills using these technologies and it given me the best ideas and outcomes for my media product. Below is some screen shots of these technologies with an explanation and examples of how I used the and how they have helped me to create my product.
I have 4 screen grabs below which show all of the websites I have used to help me through my evaluation stages. The first screen grab is of the social networking site, Facebook. I used Facebook to get some feedback from my friends and family about my soap opera trailer. As different age group use Facebook I was able to get a mixture of opinions from different ages. As my friends on Facebook are my demographic for my soap trailer I was able to get opinions and feedback about my soap opera trailer and whether I could improve it and if so how.
My next screen shot is of Blogger. Blogger helps me to document all of my information I research, my plans and documents in one place where I can easily access them. People can view my blog and give me comments on my posts. Therefore, my teachers were able to track my work and my class mates could also view my work and can comment on my posts. If I wanted to edit, add or delete a post or some information in a post it was easy for me to do so. Blogger keeps all of my work together and helps me to be organised for my media product as I can keep research, website links, photo's and more information that is need for me to complete my soap opera trailer.
My third screen shot is of Google. Google is very useful for researching soap opera's and real media products which helped me to complete my soap opera trailer. I have used Google to research real media products, trailer, posters, magazines and also been able to get idea's about props, costumes, characters, mise-en-scene and all of the conventions of the soap genre.
My final screen shot here is of YouTube. YouTube is where I have uploaded my first and second draft of my soap opera trailer. By doing this I could receive feedback from members of the public. This has given me a chance to link the trailers to my blog so that it is easier to find and view. I have also linked one of my evaluations to YouTube so that it is easy to access and watch as I found the files where too big for blogger and therefore I would have had to convert it. Although I found that linking these video's to YouTube gives the audience a better and more clearer view. It is also quicker and easy to use. I also used YouTube to find some uncopyrighted music that I could use for my soap trailer. I was able to research other soap trailers which would show me the conventions of real media products and give me ideas for my soap trailer.
The first screen shot below is of Adobe Photoshop. Adobe Photoshop has given me the ability to construct my ancillary texts; front cover magazine and soap opera poster. I have gained many skills whilst using this program and they have improved over the years of using Adobe Photoshop. This gives my ancillary texts a professional and effective finish. I have learned how to used Adobe Photoshop quicker and was able to complete it with perfection. I am now able to use the magnetic tool which allows me to cut out characters carefully. I can now do this in a short amount of time whereas before it took me longer to complete one character. Adobe Photoshop also gave my ancillary texts a professional finish and had many conventions of real media products.
The second screen shot is of Paint. Paint has allowed me to save screen shots and put screen shots together, as I have done below. I am able to separate my screen shots and images to upload them onto my blog into different or the same posts as many times as I would like. It allowed my to save screen shots of my video and show the effects and transitions I had used in my soap opera trailer. Paint also allows me to save a file as a JPEG so that I could upload it to my blog. This is easy, quick and simple to do with these files and allow people to view them on my blog.
My last screen shot below is of Final Cut Pro X. This was the first time I had used this program and I found it had more effects, transitions and title screens so that I could edit my footage. I found after playing around with this program for a while it was real easy and simple to use. It allowed me to cut visual and audio out, add effects, transitions, add title screens into my trailer and I could choose to slow down or speed up some of my footage. This makes the trailer more exciting and suits our demographic well.
The technologies that I have used have helped to create my media product. The first image is of a voice recorder that we used to record the voice overs for our soap trailer. It allowed us to record what we needed efficiently and quickly, it is also simple to use. It was easy to transfer the voice overs onto our product via the USB. We then imported them into Final Cut Pro X to add them into our soap trailer. As it is small and easy to use I was able to take this voice recorder home to record someone who appeared in our soap opera trailer. We also used this for one of our evaluation stages.
The second image is of the Panasonic HD video camera. This allows us to film our footage in HD which gives the audience a better image than the Mini DV camera's that we used for AS level. This HD camera is light and easy to use and also gave us a high quality outcome. This also had an micro card so all the footage is saved straight to this card which is more productive than the tapes that are used for the Mini DV camera's. I also used a tripod which helped me to film still shots and conventional soap genre camera shots which are shots such as mid shots, long shots and shot reverse shots.
The mobile phone was useful for communication between our group. For example, as we live in different places of the town we was able to communicate through technology and this helped us to let everyone in the group know what was happening, where we was filming and when etc. We could also arrange meetings to talk about our ideas and planning, as well as constructing out media product and if there was any worries in the group this was easily sorted out with the use of communication through our mobile phones. We could also use them as a camera to put photo's onto the computer if we needed them.
The next image is the digital camera. We used this to take pictures whilst filming as we could document and have evidence of us filming our media product. We also used the digital camera to take pictures of possible locations, characters and ideas for our soap name. For example, we went for a walk around our town and took some photo's of street sign posts which influenced us for our soap opera name.
The last new technology which we used whilst constructing, researching, planning and evaluating our media product was the new Mac computers. These had the program for Final Cut Pro X which we used to edit our soap trailer. This computer was useful as without it we would have used Adobe Premiere Pro. Although Adobe Premiere Pro is good, we found that we had more choices as well as better and efficient effects, title screen and transitions to improve our media product.
Here are some pictures to show evidence of us filming and using some of these technologies.
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