Evaluation Part IV: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

With the new media technologies it was so much easier to gather research, plan and evaluate work, as well as it being easier in the process of creating the film. It was all made easier as it was all available in one place – the internet.

 

Research:

When doing research media technologies were extremely helpful. I had many programs to store information from my research online, where I could put notes and pictures to show research.

Using YouTube: Here I was able to find other short films and research the types of short films there were and how they were made.
Using Blogger: I was able to upload the information and photos’ I had found and analyse them.
Using Google: I was able to gather information which later I would use for research and upload to my blogger.

 

Planning:

Planning was made easier as I could create flat plans of the ancillary tasks using programs like PhotoShop, which had all the abilities I needed to create the flat plan.

Using PhotoShop: Creating flat plans and drafts of ancillary tasks.
Using Word: Creating step outlines and plans of what we were going to do when filming.

 

Evaluation:

Media technologies made life easier when evaluating my work, as all my work was available in one place (blogger) I could see all of it more easily which made it easier to evaluate, also using other programs I was also able to produce my evaluation more effectively, using vimeo and final cut pro together to create a short film of audience feedback.

Using Windows Live Writer: I used this to write up my evaluation and this was able to publish the work I did onto my blog.
Using FinalCut Pro: I used this to create our audience feedback and produce a short film of what people thought.
Using Vimeo: I used this to upload our audience feedback as it was made into a film, this was embedded onto my blog.

 

Construction:

Media technologies made it easier for us to develop, film, edit and share our film short film. We had software which we could use to edit our film and include a sound track over the top, so there was ambient sounds and also the sound from the sound track which creates tension. The technology we had meant it wasn’t too complex for us, even though we were inexperienced with the software, to create a short film and distribute it.

FinalCut Pro: This is what we used to edit our film together and put together each scene, we also put a sound track on here which we created on Garage Band.
Garage Band: We used this to create part of the soundtrack of our film.
YouTube: This is where we uploaded our short film for audiences to see and share.
Vimeo: Here we also uploaded our short film for audiences to see and share.