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

Part two.

Publisher.

Publisher.

I used publisher to help create my own personal green preview screen. After doing some research I decided to make my own green preview screen so I could put my own personal touch on it. For example I have advertised my own blog at the bottom and put ‘for more information on ratings’ which is a post I have on my blog. I have also used publisher to analyse film magazines and posters. I used publisher because it is easy layout to analyse my research. Using publisher was also good because when I was ready to upload the content up to my blog I just had to change the file to a jpeg.

Powerpoint and Slide share.

Powerpoint and slide share. I have used powerpoint to help me complete my evaluation questions. I chose to use power point because it is a well presented and organised software to use. It also allowed me to annotate any of my print screens I needed to. To upload my powerpoint I used a software called slide share where I had to make my own account. Once the powerpoint is uploaded to slideshare I can place the link in a new post and place it on my blog for people to see.

Photoshop.

Photoshop. I used photoshop to design my first magazine design and my film poster design. I have had previous experience using this software and therefore felt confident using it. I felt that photoshop was more helpful with my film poster as I had a lot of layers. It also allowed me to adjust the photo that I was on the poster. Before I edited the picture I had a coloured picture but after I had a black and white version. This helped the poster fit in with the film’s theme. The software also allowed me to adjust the colours of the font which also allowed the poster to fit in with the theme. I have also put my poster I design on bus stops so I could advertise my film.

In Design

In design. After getting feed back from my target audience from the medi@chs website I decided to do a new version of my film magazine. This time I decided to do it on a different software called In Design. This allowed me to choose a existing magazine and use the layout to make my magazine look more professional. I did this by drawing boxes around the layout out of the Empire magazine which covered the Harry Potter film. The only thing I didn’t like about In Design is that there wasn’t a range of colours I could use however I am happy with the ones I have used on my film magazine.

Audacity.

I also used the software audacity. I used audacity to record the voice over to add in my trailer. I had a problem using this software as the microphone wouldn’t work on my computer therefore I had to change computers. Once I had recorded the narration I was able to import it into Premire Pro and edit it and place the recording in the right places.

Audacity.

After Effects.

After Effects. I used after effects to create my ident. This was a good software to use as I could follow tutorials on youtube to help me design my own ident.

Here is my actors name. I also designed this on after effects. This is a simple effect as I just added in a fade.

Here is my trailer name. I had to download the font from Dafont website and place it in. I also designed this on after effects. This is a simple effect as I just added in a fade.

Premire Pro.

Premire Pro.Upload my clips.

Add effects i.e. turned my clips to black and white.

My workspace where I dragged my clips in to.

Where I can watch my trailer.

Once I had dragged my clips into the workspace I was able to place them in the right order and start cutting little scenes out. This also meant that my shots could flick from one to another.

Premire Pro.

This box allowed me to upload my clips , ident, music and my file from audicity. After that I just needed to drag them in to my work place area.

Here is where I changed my clips from colour to black and white. I did this by reducing the saturation.

I also used Premire Pro in question 3 of my evaluation.