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

Prezi

Prezi is used in my project as it is a

creative way to present your work. It

allows for you to customise how the

viewer sees the information and the

journey they take. Like most

websites this could be shared online

and was easily able to implement it

into my Wix. It has a variety of

templates to use or you can easily

create your own with its own unique

path through your presentation.

Slideshare

Slideshare is a file sharing website

and useful when you wanted to share

PowerPoints online and make them

accessible. Slideshare is used

throughout my project due to ease of

use and the ability for it to be

embedded into my wix.

Wix

I chose Wix to host my coursework as it is

one of the leaders in free websites and

contains many different features and

applications which can enhance how I

present my work. It allows you to upload

almost any document such as images in

which you can put into galleries or place

into pages which you can fully edit. The

layout, colour scheme and font have a

wide range of variations thus allowing you

to be able to design it to fit your needs and

purposes.

SurveyMonkey

Survey Monkey was used in the

research section of my project, as

it allowed me to post our

questionnaire online and allow it

to be answered by anyone in the

world. This was great for getting a

much bigger sample and get

different views on thriller films

which would benefit us when we

constructed our own.

Youtube

Youtube was used to upload our

videos to the internet and therefore

share them and upload to our Wix via

links. I used YouTube during my film

analysis as it allowed me to add text

over the top of the short film. Youtube

is easy to upload more and is the go

to site for video sharing, this is why

our finished film was uploaded to it.

Camera and AccessoriesWe used a canon 700d to film our short film, this is

a professional camera and has been used to

create award winning films. It allows used to do

focus pulls and pushes and film at a high

resolution with a good frame rate so the audience

would be able to receive what they were watching

better.

The tripod allowed us to create steady camera shots

when we desired, height could be adjusted and the

fluid head allows for smooth panning shots.

The shotgun microphone and boom pole were

important for picking up audio which the build

in Mic couldn't’t. This allowed for our audio to

be much clearer and made out film more

professional.

Motion

Motion was used in constructing

our title sequence for our

production company ‘BlackBox’.

This involved us creating a short

clip to visually advertise our

company that we had created. This

is a motion graphics program and

lets you create something from

scratch and put your own style onto

it. This is one of the best programs

in motion graphics so had a steep

learning curve but was happy with

the final result we got.

Final Cut Pro X

Final cut was used in our

construction stage. It is a

professional editing software

which is industry standard so the

ability to edit and create effects

was huge. We were able to add

effects, transitions and additional

sound effects onto clips to

enhance our film and make it

appeal to our target audience.

The ability for colour correction

and different effects were usual

when editing our film into its

chosen genre and was the

difference from a amateur film to

a more professional one.

Illustrator

I used illustrator to create our double

page spread film review, this was due

to the fact that illustrator is good for

fonts and layout which is a key aspect

of a film review. Illustrator is a vector

based program which allows you to

upscale designs without them

becoming pixelated and ruining the

design. Different fonts and headers

allowed me to design a visually

pleasing film review that looked good.

Photoshop

Photoshop was used in the construction of

our film poster. With its strong image

editing features it was ideal with editing

pictures taken from our Photoshop and

then adding them into our poster, giving it

a uniqueness to our individual film.

Photoshop is also good for brushes and

different textures which we used to great

effect. Various tutorials online show how to

do almost every feature you can do in

Photoshop so if we got stuck we would just

figure it out by searching about the

problem.