Q4:HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THECONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH,PLANNING AND

EVALUATION STAGES?

YOUTUBE-RESEARCH

Using YouTube I was able to research existing soaps which were similar to the one I created. Watching other soaps helped me understand the conventions of my genre of soap.

The Only Way Is Essex

Desperate Scousewives

Made In Chelsea

YOUTUBE-RESEARCHAfter creating an account on YouTube, I was able to regularly upload my trailer from the Apple Mac’s iMovie. This was good for me because I was able to post this on my blog to show others and ask for improvements, therefore I uploaded several versions.

CONSTRUCTION-iMOVIEThis software allowed me to edit my trailer by:

•Cutting and cropping the clips precisely•The speed of the clip•Cropping in on the clip•Create transition slides to join the clips together eg) dissolve,fade•Changing of the order of the clips•Delete selected parts of the audio•Add a soundtrack •Change the volume of the audio/soundtrack•Fade in the audio/soundtrack

CONSTRUCTION-iMOVIEThis is how you create a new project. The next screen you can select which theme you want, and to name your project. I selected no theme because I simply did not need one.

To import footage, I clicked file, import, import movies. This was very easy as I just selected a folder full of all my footage.

CONSTRUCTION-iMOVIEAfter importing footage, I then selected the footage and dragged it into my timeline.

To cut down a clip, I simply highlight the part of the clip I wish to keep, right click, then trim to selection.

Splitting the clip enables me to cut the clip in half,for a more precise cut.

This is the icon for viewing the movie full screen.

CONSTRUCTION-iMOVIE

This is the icon for cropping the footage. I simply just draw a box around the footage I wish to crop.

This is the icon I use to add sound or music.

This is the icon I use to add transitions.

This is the icon I use to add title cards.

CONSTRUCTION-iMOVIEThese are the types of transitions available. I mainly used cross dissolves and fade to black.

To fade the music out or in, I simply drag the small hand down to the direction I wish to fade the music.

This is how you slow down the clips. To increase or decrease the speed I dragged the icon left or right.

CONSTRUCTION-iMOVIEThis is the music library once clicked on the sound icon. A list of songs are available from itunes.

However, I chose a soundtrack from YouTube. I copied and pasted the link into a convertor.

After converting the soundtrack, I then added it into itunes library and dragged it into my timeline.

CONSTRUCTION-GARAGEBANDThis is the music library once clicked on the sound icon. A list of songs are available from itunes.

This software allowed me to edit my soundtrack by:

•Create a whole new soundtrack•Looping the soundtrack •Cutting the sound which is not needed•Increase or decrease particular parts of the track sound

I had to use garageband to edit my chosen song due to the dialogue from my characters overlapping with the singing in the song, therefore the singing in the song needed removing in order to hear the dialogue.

CONSTRUCTION-GARAGEBANDTo begin editing the soundtrack, I simply clicked ‘new track’.

Once added my soundtrack, using this arrow I am able to cut the soundtrack down.

To loop my track, means to select a part of my track and basically copy and paste it, so the music ‘loops’. To do this, I selected the part of the track and clicked the loop button.

CONSTRUCTION-GARAGEBAND

This is what my soundtrack would look like once looped- it’s just like one track.

Once finishing my soundtrack, I then saved and renamed it, imported into itunes and added to my timeline in iMovie.

CONSTRUCTION-SLIDESHAREI created an account on slideshare which allowed me to upload Microsoft Powerpoint and Microsoft Word documents to my blog.

BLOG-ADDING VIDEOSTo add a new post, I simply click “NEW POST”.

I then went onto YouTube and beneath the video is a button which says “Embed”. I then clicked on this button and copied and pasted the code into my blog.

I then published my video onto my blog.

BLOG-ADDING IMAGESTo add a new post, I simply click “NEW POST”.

To add an image, I simply clicked the ‘insert image’ icon and selected an image from my desktop.

I then published it onto my blog.

EVALUATION-POWERPOINTI used Microsoft Powerpoint to produce parts of my evalutation. This software enabled me to:

• Add a theme/background colour•Change font styles/colours/bold/italics etc•Format text boxes into different colours•Add borders to images and text boxes•Add arrows for annotating images and for following structure•Add images from the computer

POWERPOINT

Adding Wordart

Adding a text box

Adding Shapes

Adding images

These tabs along the top change when clicking the different ones. I mainly use Insert to insert text and images.

The most common shape I use in powerpoint is the arrows.

POWERPOINT

Changing whether the slide is landscape or portrait.

Selecting a theme for the whole powerpoint.

Choosing a plain background colour instead of the themes.

Design tab- for the design of the powerpoint.

If choosing a theme, you are able to choose a built in colour.