3. PIKTOCHART
Piktochart is an infographic tool with a wide variety of templates. It worked
well when I was presenting my work as it is easy to read and is laid out
clearly. My work on researching audiences was presented in Piktochart
which was visually exciting as I used a wide range of colours in each slide
and was also able to add in pictures.
4. PINTEREST
Pinterest enabled myself to collect together a
series of images for the mise-en-scene of our
film, props and for where our trailer was going
to be set out. We sourced images of French
kitchens, French towns, young girls to
symolbise Molly, he protagonsit and older
women to symbolise the aunty, our antagonist.
This helped our group to understand what they
wore and how they held themselves in order to
help us develop our characters.
5. MAGAZINES
I studied and analysed multiple and different magazine covers which helped
me gain an idea as to how they are set out and the typical conventions
displayed. So, this was useful when I came down to designing my own
magazine cover for my film as it had a greater impact with the audience.
6. BLOGGER
We have used Blogger to document the work
myself and my group have done through posts
that we could share with the rest of our group.
It is easy to use and is the host of all my media
coursework. It also hosted all my other
presentational tools from Prezi to Slideshare.
7. TWITTER
Users on Twitter can retweet things that interest them to spread it and can
make it go viral. We made a Twitter account for our film trailer and from
this our group was able to build upon our knowledge of the media by
reading tweets from great minds and communities.
8. INSTAGRAM
I made an Instagram account for our
groups trailer to attract the address
of audiences. Instagram has a wide
range of users and different
audiences. A lot of our target
audience are teenagers and they are
the main users of Instagram.
Therefore, it is a good place for
advertisement. On the account that I
created, I followed other thriller films
in order to gain inspiration.
9. SLIDESHARE
Slideshare is a similar platform to Emaze, however I found Slideshare a
good way to present work I had already put together on previous
platforms such as Powerpoint.
11. PINTEREST
I looked up pictures of gory images and weapons to plan what props to
use in our trailer. We decided to use fake blood, a knife and horrible
looking ‘French toast’ infested with mealworms. This was essential
planning to guide our directing of the scenes. Pinterest is a collaborative
tool that let us build up an image bank.
12. MOBILE PHONES
I used my mobile phone to keep in touch with the rest of my group when
we were planning shots, the location we were planning to film on, which
props to bring in and if any of us had ideas.
13. SNAPCHAT
My group and I also used the social media platform, Snapchat, created by
Evan Spiegel, Bobby Murphey and Reggie Brown, to make a group chat. A
group chat was useful as our whole group was able to keep up with the
plans being made for filming and ideas.
15. DIGITAL CAMERA
My group and
I used the
Nikon D300
to film for our
film trailer. I
found it easy
to use and
the quality
was very
good.
16. I MOVIE
I Movie was our main editing tool as we find it the easiest to use. It is good
for trimming unwanted film and adding in extra sounds or effects. This also
created a sharper edit as trailers need a fast pace particularly in the
sequence of Molly, our protagonist running in and out of different rooms.
In the majority of the trailer we used filters
on the different scenes to create a darker
visual quality to confer a somber mood and
reflect the sinister situation in which the girl
finds herself.
17. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
I used Adobe Photoshop to design and edit my film poster and film
magazine cover.
In my poster I used layers as I placed two pictures of the protagonist to
make it more visually exciting for the audience. In the layer where the
protagonist is looking upwards in fright, I lowered the opacity so that
the two pictures could be seen clearly next to each other.
In my poster, I cropped a picture of the French town where the trailer is
set. I added this picture to the top half of the magazine cover and used
the eraser tool to erase part of the image so that the protagonist face
was not covered up.
I then used the eyedropper tool, paint and brush tool to merge the
colour of the protagonists hair and the bricks of the house so that the
line did not come across as harsh.
I also increased the contrast of the poster to give a stronger more
dramatic effect.
18. I also used Photoshop to design and edit my magazine cover. As the tools
were very easy to navigate and gave me many options with the formatting and
designing of my magazine and film poster.
I used the text tool to include the title of the film and the magazine name. This
also applies to my film poster, using the text tool to include actors names, the
release date and cover line.
I also used the levels settings to change the contrast, saturation and brightness of
the main image.
I also used the eyedropper tool so the colour red was a theme throughout the
magazine cover. I decided to make the colour of the magazine title the same as
the colour of the protagonists coat. I also included black and red text to fit in with
the other main colours in the magazine cover.
19. YOUTUBE
This is the platform on which I shared my final film trailer. I was able to get
feedback from this as I was able to invite friends to watch it.
20. TAPE RECORDER
I recorded myself bowing a violin in a strong, unnerving way
(like Hitchcock’s Psycho) in order to jangle the audience’s
nerves. We then added this in to our trailer as non-diegetic
sound as the blood dripped.
We used the internal microphone to record the antagonist
mouthing lines from Racine’s Phèdre about intense outrage
and hatred.
As well as this, I recorded a voice over and my group and I
added this in to the start of the trailer to set the scene so the
audience have a more clear idea of what the trailer is about.
21. AIRDROP
My group used Airdrop to send photos and videos to each other.
22. TRIPOD
The tripod stabilised the filming so the final product looked much more
professional than it would had if we had filmed by hand.
24. EMAZE
Like Slideshare, Emaze presents work
visually with beautiful, graphical
tools. I used Emaze a lot when
presenting my analysis and
deconstruction of my own film poster
and magazine cover, it was very
useful and a unique alternative to
Powerpoint.
25. I MOVIE
After I uploaded my final film trailer to Youtube from iMovie, I went back
to the film trailer on iMovie and put annotations on each shot to explain to
the audience what we were trying to achieve and why we thought it was
effective. Therefore, I was able to have clear annotations on my final piece.
26. PREZI
I used Prezi to present my second evaluation question on the combination
of main and ancillaries. I loved the way Prezi is presented professionally
and laid out clearly.
27. QUICKTIME
I used Quicktime player to record the voice over
and moving image of me going through the
slides for the analysis of the Sixth Sense film
poster. This was done through Quicktime taking
a recording of my computer screen.
28. FACEBOOK
Facebook was a good social media website to use as it allowed
me to look up the pages of big, successful films. This gave me
inspiration and was also helpful to see how the film was run
and marketed by the big companies. We can invite friends to
look at our film page and also gain feedback about our
production. This feedback helped us to evaluate our trailer.
