Part of my media evaluation

1. How did you use media
technologies in the
construction and research,
planningand evaluation
stages?

2. iMac
The computer that I used to do pretty much everything for my film, research and blogging was
an iMac Pro. I mostly used the i Macs at school for everything because I found them easier to
use however at home I used my windows laptop instead so the majority of my work was created
on these computers. I have learnt that I much prefer iMacs than Windows, as I find them to be
much better computers, they are a lot faster and the graphic quality is much better, which is
good considering my task was to create a short film with professional graphics.
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3. Sony Nex 7
I will be using this camera to film my A2 media short film. We brought this camera
especially for this project because in our ancillary task "A day in the life of feet" we
used the school camera (JVC Evirio) and the quality of image was no where near the
standard of which we wanted for our final piece. I felt this didn't make my one
minute video look professional therefore to solve this problem we chose the Sony Nex
7 which will enable me to give my final film the look the JVC would not.
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4. Sound boom
After watching and analyzing other short films as part of my research, I
realized that the sound quality was more enhanced than my own. We found
a miniature sound boom at an affordable price and have decided to use this
to record all diegetic sound so we can add this in the editing process. Again
helping ,e produce a professional short film.
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5. Blogger
The specification requires that I either use a blog or a website for my
coursework. Blogger is the most accessible website I found that also makes
my work look good. It allows you to post Prezis, PowerPoint presentations,
pictures and videos as well as HMTL coding and if I was to do something like
this again then I would definitely use this site.
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6. Final Cut Pro
We had the option to use either i-movie or Final cut pro and I decided to use this software to
edit my film because I learnt that editors for short film the industry also use this software. This will
provide me with a number of benefits for my film such as; sound effects, transitions, time
lapses, titles, footage cutting tools etc. When I was working on my ancillary task 'A day in the
life of feet' this was the first time I had ever used Final Cut Pro. I now use this to edit my main
task and we are now finding we are making good use of the colour altering techniques as
well.
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7. iPad
I have used this to take pictures of the filming as well as pictures for
my film posters as we have gone along. The camera is clear and up
to a good standard and it is also easier to share images through this
because as soon as I take a photo I can instantly send it to my laptop
to edit.
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8. Pixlr
Pixlr was the program that I used to create all of my magazine pages/ film poster/ film review. I began
with using photoshop (because I used that for my preliminary task) however I couldn't get on with it easily
and a friend recommended pixlr and I am so glad they did because it made my life a lot easier therefore
a better final product. This offers the use of; new fonts, colour correction, hue, brightness change, contrast
change, second image overlay, filters, cropping etc. I discovered that I would have to change the
format of the page before saving it to a 'JPEG' format in order for it to upload. I have become very used
to using this website therefore I could improve my magazine pages easily to give them a more
'professional' look. The ease of use was through playing about with it in my spare time and finding new
features.
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9. Photoshop
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10. Pages
Filming/ editing schedule
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11. Prezi
I use this as a different medium of posting my information instead us just using
normal blog posts. It creates variety to keep people interested while reading my
blog and the contemporary backgrounds make it appealing on the eye. I would
definiteley use this website for future presentations because I far prefer it to other
presentations such as Microsoft powerpoint and is a lot easier to use!
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12. PowerPoint/
slide share
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13. YouTube
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14. Survey monkey
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15. Internet
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