Evaluation Q4

Evaluation Q4How did you use technologies in the research and planning, construction and evaluation stages?

Research & Planning

The Weebly website has helped me and made it easy to post all my work such as my research and planning. It has different ways on how you can present your work, such as JPEG images, texts, html links, documents, YouTube etc.

It also allowed me to add pages on my blog therefore I was able to organise my work in order. This made it easier for me to find my work as

well.

Research & Planning

For my research, I used PowerPoint as it was one of the easiest way to present my work. It also allows you to have a concise design to present your work throughout

doing so.

In order to present my work on the Weebly website, I made an account on

Slideshare and uploaded the presentation that I wanted. I then

copied the embed code and pasted it on the website so I could display my

presentation.

Research & Planning

YouTube allowed me to find existing soap trailers in order for me to analyse them as

well as to do my preliminary task.

It also allowed me to upload the video to the Weebly website easily therefore it can

also be viewed easily.

Research & Planning

As part of my planning, I have used Word to do some paperwork before we could film our trailer, such as the Shooting Script. I then

posted this on the Weebly website.

Construction

Equipment we used:

A tripod to allow the

footage taken to be steady

and to allow to pan the

camera from left to right

A digital video camera

to film high quality videos

A DSLR camera to take pictures for the

ancillary products at a

high quality for a professional

look

Construction

For both of my ancillary products, the front cover

magazine and the billboard poster, I have used Adobe

Photoshop to edit the images and to create the

products.

Construction – Magazine Cover

Firstly, I opened the images we took at a studio

that I wanted to use

I then used the Eraser Tool and the Quick Selection Tool to get rid off the background


I used the Horizontal Type Tool to add texts on the page. I then double-

clicked the layer of a text to add effects. E.g. for the title of the

magazine I added the ‘Drop Shadow’ effect to add a more professional look


I clicked on the Rectangle Tool and chose the Line Tool, Ellipse Tool and

Rectangle Tool to make all the shapes that I wanted on the magazine. I then used the Path Selection Tool to

change the colour of the shapes.


I added the rest of the images and texts to make sure that the

whole page is covered and that I followed the

conventions

I also rotated some of the texts by selecting the layer of the text and going to Edit >

Transform > Rotate

Construction – Billboard Poster

Firstly, I edited all the images that I used one by one before creating the actual poster on Photoshop. I have

done this by using the same tools for erasing the background as when making my magazine cover, which

is the Easer Tool and the Quick Selection Tool


Here are the images of the characters before and after:


I flipped this image by going to Image > Image Rotation > Flip

Canvas Horizontal in order for my poster to look better

I then put all the images together and added a brick wall background that I got

from the internet by clicking File > Open.

I also then added the

rest of the texts by using the Type

Tool, and changed the colour and

added effects on them.

Construction – Trailer

The music I have used in my trailer came from the Incompetech website. I clicked on Royalty-Free Music and

chose ‘intense’ and ‘mysterious’, and then downloaded it.

Construction – Trailer

I have added sound effects to my clips in my trailer by finding the sound effect I wanted on YouTube.

I then copied the link of the video

Then I went on the Video2mp3 website and pasted the link to convert the video into mp3

Evaluation

Prezi is one of the easiest and the most creative way of presenting your work therefore I have used it to present one of the evaluation questions.

It has allowed me to present something in a certain way that I want by adding paths. This enabled me to move from one location to another, e.g. from a text to an image.

Evaluation

It was easy for me to add different frames and to add arrows to present my work more

creatively by just clicking the Frames & Arrows box.

Prezi has also allowed me to insert images easily by clicking the Insert box.

Evaluation

For my evaluation, I also used PowerPoint to present my work. It was

an easy and simple way to present screen shots of my work and to annotate them.

Just like in my research & planning, in order for me to put it on my blog I had to

upload it on Slideshare and get the embed code so I could post it on my blog.

Evaluation

I have also used the Weebly website to display my

evaluation work. I made a page for each evaluation

question so that it was easy to access.

Evaluation

I have used QuickTime Player to do a short screen recording of how I used iMovie to create my trailer

for one of my evaluation questions.

This has allowed me to

easily demonstrate how I used iMovie and

what I did in order to create

my trailer.

Technology

Evaluation Q4