Ildiko Czapar

HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH,

PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?

Use of a blog site for our course work benefited us in many ways. It is easier to access it as it is available online from anywhere and any time. It makes it easier to present it to our teacher task by task. However the use of Blogger is easier than the blog site we used at the first place, there are still some difficulties for example it is hard to place the pictures on the right position and there isn’t too many options to change the front. To make the blog look better we started to use more interactive programs such as Prezzi, Worlde, Scribd, Slideshare and Video sharing websites. These websites helped us a lot in making the blog more enjoyable for the reader.

Blogger

Prezzi

Prezzi is an online representation site which allows the user to create a representation including pictures, videos and soundtracks. This is my favorite interactive technique I used because there is plenty of options to make it look interesting in many different ways with loads of different themes and colours. However it takes long to make it once you have experience it isn’t difficult to use.

Scribd and Slideshare

Scribd and Slideshare were also very for my coursework. I am trying to use as many interactive media product as possible to make our representation more interesting. These two websites allows the user to share Word and PowerPoint documents. After sharing them all I have to do is embed it to my blog. These documents are interactive media products and they making the representation of my blog look much better and more enjoyable. These websites doesn’t require experience as long as you are able to use Word and PowerPoint on point you know everything you need.

In the filming process we used a Nikon digital camera to film. With this camera we have been able to record high quality shots which helped to make the mise-en-scene perfect. However for the recording in Spain we used a smaller digital Nikon camera we were scared if the shots might look different on the screen as they were recorded with different cameras, at the end we changed the quality of the scenes and it perfectly fitted into the rest of the video.

Equipment

To edit the preliminary task, animatic and focus group research video I used the programs iMovie and After Effect. It was quick and easy to use them as they are very basic video editor programs. There isn’t many options and effects but I only used them to cut and edit the videos. To edit the final product I used Final Cut Pro on the Apple mac computer at the media department in my school. I didn’t find the use of it too difficult as I had experience from last year. We used it to edit our horror film opening as well. I still found more effects and learned new techniques that helped me in the editing process for example I learned how to make slow emotion and how to cut to the beat.

Programs

I used my phone to take pictures of locations, filming process and picture for my digipack and digipack advert. To make the actual digipack and digipack advert we used Photoshop to manipulate the picture in many different ways. We changed the colours of the picture and included writing with special interesting front. We also added pictures at the top of the main picture for example the logo and barcodes. We positioned it carefully following our plans that we gained using our researches. I also had an experience in the use of Photoshop from last year. Compare to the struggle it was to make a magazine cover it flowed easily this time. The advert came out to be very good as it includes every information it needs and it also matches the conventions. I think it would sell our CD.In addition there are websites that also helped me a lot in my work such as google which help incredibly much in my researches; YouTube that allowed us to share our video to the public and get feedback from the audience.

Other use of technology included in our production.