The document discusses the various technologies used during the research, planning, production, and evaluation stages of the author's A2 media coursework. These included TimeToast, YouTube, Bubbl.us, Photoshop, iMovie, video camera, Word, SurveyMonkey, Prezi, Windows Movie Maker, Blogger, and social media for sharing work and gathering feedback. Key technologies used were iMovie for editing video into a trailer, Photoshop for ancillary designs, and SurveyMonkey for evaluating audience response to the final products.
2. Technologies used in my Research work
Some of the technologies that I used in this part of my work were:
TimeToast
Publisher
YouTube
Powerpoint
Bubbl
Popplet
Wallwisher
Excel
Slideshare
Blogger
Facebook
Twitter
3. How I have used these technologies
I have used TimeToast in my media research to show the
audience some of the initial research that I had completed. By
using this it has allowed me to show the audience the time
periods in which the research has come from and shows how the
horror genre has changed in the last century.
I have used YouTube in my research stage so that I can research
into what I may want to put into my final product and find out
what type of camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene
they use in a typical horror movie trailer. This allowed me to see
whether the ideas that I had were good enough to be made into
a horror movie.
I have used Bubbl.us in my research to summarise all of my
research work that I have done. This allows me to easily see
what I have done and allows me to develop on these points in
the later stages of production.
4. Technologies used in my Planning work
Some of the technologies that I used in this part of my work
were:
Popplet
Word
Still Camera
Youtube
Slideshare
Publisher
Photoshop
Wallwisher
Blogger
Facebook
Twitter
5. How I have used these technologies
During all of my media coursework I have used Blogger to
post my coursework on to show the progress of my
coursework. This allows for people to see the various step I
have gone through to produce my media product and it
also lets me see what I have done in the production stages.
I have used Photoshop during my planning work to
produce some ancillary tasks designs so that once my
production work has been produced I can easily create my
final ancillary tasks.
During the planning stage I have used Wallwisher to get
feedback from my target audience on the work that I have
done. This let me easily show the progress that has been
made during this stage.
6. Technologies used in my Production work
Some of the technologies that I used in this part of my work were:
iMovie
Movie Maker
Word
Still Camera
Video Camera
YouTube
Wallwisher
Publisher
Photoshop
Blogger
Facebook
Twitter
7. How I have used these technologies
In my production work I have used iMovie to edit the film scenes into
a final trailer for people to watch. What iMovie allowed me to do was
take my raw footage and turn them into a teaser trailer. What iMovie
also allowed use to do was edit the sounds, speed, colour and the
length of all of the shots that were to be used in the movie trailer. This
was the main software that I used to have the chosen effect that I
wanted one my main product. Of course their was some effects that
were impossible to put into place with this software which is one of the
only downfalls with this software.
I have also used Word in this stage of my work to make a script and
shot list for the filming of the trailer by doing this it allows for quicker
and easier filming.
During the production stage of my project I used a Video Camera to
record the scenes that I needed in my teaser trailer. This allowed for
easy filming because we could film all of footage in one stage and also
look at it while filming to make sure that the footage was correct.
8. Technologies used in my Evaluation work
Some of the technologies that I used in this part of my
work were:
YouTube
SurveyMonkey
Powerpoint
Slideshare
Prezi
MovieMaker
Blogger
Facebook
Twitter
9. How I have used these technologies
During the final stage of my media project I have used
Prezi to display the links that are between my ancillary
products and my actual teaser trailer. This allowed me to
easily show all of the things that link each piece of my
work.
Also in this part of my project I used Windows Movie
Maker to edit and complete a piece of my work. This
allowed me to compile a video together quickly and with
high quality.
Finally in my media project I used SurveyMonkey to send
out a questionnaire to my target audience and then collect
the results as well. This allowed me to find out what the
target audience thought of my final products and if I
needed to make any final improvements.