OCR G324

Joe Garnett3304

Aquinas College: 33435

Evaluation question 4

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

Camera

We used a digital camera with a memory disk in it, to record the footage we needed in order to create a trailer. I also used a camera when doing the preliminary tasks(stop frame animations and practise soap trailer). The memory disk helped us because the upload from it is very quick, whereas if we had used a tape camera it would have taken as long as the footage was to upload it.

iMovie

iMovie was the editing software which I used to create my main product and practise soap trailer. It is easy to use – cropping footage, changing sound levels, overlaying sound and adding such things as slow – motion.

Many parts of my trailer include slow-motion, and all of the clips were cropped down so that they matched the beats of the music.

iTunes is part of the same iMac software are make it easy to transfer things from one to another. I had to do this when I was importing music.

Keynote

I used Keynote to create title cards for the soap trailer, keynote is very similar to Microsoft PowerPoint, it is used to create slideshows but slides can be exported as JPEGs so they can be used on other programs.

Using Keynote I was able to change background colours font types and colours.

Social media

Our class used twitter to communicate with the teacher for information about our work.

I used it to give my teacher the link to my soap trailer rough cuts and final product on YouTube.

Twitter was very useful to me because it allowed me to easily communicate with my teacher when out of college and also post links to my product.

Social media

I uploaded my soap trailer rough cuts and finished product to YouTube. This enables other people to watch it, the potential for feedback and allowed me to embed the video onto my blog, with YouTube I could share my work on Twitter.

Social media

I also used YouTube for research, I watched things such a Dallas and Eastenders. I then upload some clips of what I had watched to blog to show my research and it allowed me to not have to search for them again of YouTube.

Blogger

Blogger is a website that allows you to upload videos, slideshows and text. I uploaded my research, planning, stages of development with my soap trailer, my ancillaries and evaluation. It is very easy to use and I could also follow other peoples blogs, I followed the blogs of the people in my group so that we could share all of the work that we had done.

PowerPoint and Slideshare

I used PowerPoint to create my evaluation as I could put text and images on the slides, I was in control of the colours and fonts.

To upload my evaluation to my blog I used Slideshare, a website which converts PowerPoint's into a format which works on the internet