How did you use new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?
WEebly
We have created a website used weebly to show our audience the planning, research and evaluation that we have completed based on our trailer, we have found that this website is reliable for us to use to clearly show what sort of information we are trying to get across. Everything that we do which is linked towards our trailer is then uploaded on to weebly. This website is easy to use and adding new pages it is easy to design them, when creating the webpage you can upload titles, youtube links and images. There are various different themes that you can use but we though this template was best to use because it is clear to use. We thought this was a good website to use because it is somewhere where we can hold all of our work.
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This is showing the different way in which we can add and delete pages. Also where all of the drop down menus are which is laid out on our website.
Photoshop
Throughout creating our trailer, we have also had to create a magazine cover and poster. We achieved this by using photoshop and it allowed us to be creative and let us design our magazine and poster the way in which we wanted. When creating this covers we wanted the final product to look both professional and presentable. This piece of technology has allowed us to edit and add texts, images and more. Along the way of creating both the magazine and poster we came across certain difficulties such as adding different features throughout. We also thought that this was a good piece of technology to use because it let us changes certain colours of the texts and have different effects on the image we used.
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youtube
YouTube has been important to us throughout creating our trailer, this is because we have used various types of sound that has featured. We decided to upload our trailer and some other work we have completed that has gone towards our research and planning this is because the rest of our group knew what to do and how to use the basics of this website. Youtube has the videos on so that we can use and also link it back to our trailer and see how it is similar.
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final cut pro
Another form of technology that we have used is final cut pro. This is what we have created our trailer on 'MAYA'. Our group knew how to use this piece of technology anyway so this was a positive becuase we then knew how to edit and add types of sound in. This has been used when other types of media has been created and also previously we used this to produce our opening title sequence. By us having this knowledge it also meant that we knew different shortcuts on final cut that were easy to use. The way in which this worked was to construct a new project and this would be where all our clips would go into so we would have them there for whenever we wanted to edit them, especially if we wanted to put it in our final piece. By adding more and more clips in it meant we had a timeline which showed us what we had added. Overall we think by using this piece of programming meant that it gave us the best possible opportunities to let us create a good trailer.
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Apple mac
Whilst using a camera and final cut pro we have used the apple macs to use these pieces of software. These computers have also let us use YouTube to research different sounds, google to look at other trailers that are similar to ours. Compared to normal window PC's they don't have the final cut software available. Overall we thought this computer was the best to use because of the features it includes.
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Camera - Canon DSLR
Along with using final cut pro, one of the most important pieces of technology is the camera. We used this to film all clips and photos that are included within our research, planning, evaluation and trailer. To get the best picture for these shots was to also use a tripod, this meant the shots looked professional, without any shaking or movement. This camera is also available to hold a microphone therefore when filming clips with sound it made it better and clearer to hear with the extent of this microphone. We realised that this
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Clip converter
Throughout our trailer we have included several types of sound, we had this so we could have background music. This website is there for our use to convert the clips from YouTube and then when they get sent across to then have a different link. This lets us put it through and onto our trailer so therefore people on other PC will be able to hear it.
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Prezi
Prezi is a website in which lets us create a mind-map with all ideas about what we have worked on. We only felt like it was necessary to use Prezi for our evaluation, this is because it let us show and create what we wanted to get across to our target audience. This website lets us present our ideas like a powerpoint but comes across as looking more professional. It also lets you choose from a vast amount of themes/templates, it lets you design what you want the way you want.
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