3. WordPress blogs were useful for our Research and
Planning.This allowed use to keep a record of each
day, when we were doing our Research and
planing.By using the blog it not only allowed us to
keep record of all our work but we were able to use
the blog in school and at home this made using the
much easier because we would have extra time if
we needed it .The online nature of blogs also
allowed us to make updates that were organised
and relevant to our work. Additionally we made
different changes to our blog which made it easier
for us to update posts .This made using the blog
easy to use.
4. YouTube allowed us to upload our videos so
other people could see them.This allowed us
keep in touch with our target audience
because they were able to comment on the
different videos which means if they had any
concerns about.
For ourTarget Audience we choseYouTube.
Nowadays many teenagers go onto this site in
order to watch videos this was one of the
reasons we decided to useYouTube because it
was easy to use and for our target audience
they would be able to see everything that
goes on behind the scenes and they would
have constant updates on videos.
5. We used social media site facebook to interact with our audience to gain
information on the improvements that needed to be made for our movie trailer.
This was important because this was something our target audience use on a
daily basis which meant it was easier for us to gather all the information from
them because they used this social media site.We found this website easy to use
as we all knew how to navigate our way around the different pages .
6. During our planning stage, we used different online presentation tools.An
example of this Slideshare.This was extremely useful when it came to
uploading the research we felt that using Slide share was the best way to
form our presentation.
We used all the information we gathered from other people which consists
of positive and negative feedback. We did not have any problem when
dealing with slideshare as we had previous experience from last year.
7. We used Scribd to upload scripts and shotlists on to our Blog.This was very useful and simple
to use, it meant that we could embed it onto our blog whereas if we decided to use a
different document our audience would have to download the whole file which could take a
while, this would be time consuming for our audience. In term of our struggles we had
minor difficulties when we were first using Scribd as we were unsure of how to embed
documents onto our blog however once we became familiar with this we understood how
Scribd worked.
8. We used IMovie to record and edit our audience feedback and the research we had
done on different movie trailers.This allowed us to edit all the videos into one full
video , this was very useful to us as we could easily edit all the videos together to
complete one whole video . We did not struggle when using this software as we
had previous experience during last year. It allowed us to have a better
knowledge and understanding of how the software works.
9. Whilst researching our movie trailer, poster and website , we
found internet tools such asYouTube.com and Google.co.uk.
They allowed us to access a broad range of examples, including
different movie trailers that would relate to our target audience.
Whilst this was very useful when researching for our ancillary task
, it was even more useful when researching movie trailers .
YouTube.com allowed us easy access to a wide range of
material, which we could then embed onto the blog and analyse.
Google has been very useful in finding different locations in order
to film.This made it very easy for us to contact people and book
locations.
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11. For our production we used a DSLR camera which allowed us to film in HD this was
important when filming our scenes as we wanted to get clear shots each time
when we were recording a scene. It was also much easier to capture images and
take video recording of our work as it was portable and easy to transfer all the
different clips we used throughout the production process.
This is the camera we used
throughout our production
process.This camera was very
effective as it produced clear
images and videos.
12. We usedWindows movie maker for the production stage when we were
talking about our ancillary tasks.We used it when we were comparing our
website to two different websites we felt that were similar to our genre of
Teen Drama. It was also much easier to capture images and take voice
recording of our voices as it was portable and easy to transfer all the different
clips we used throughout the production process.
13. We used this software for our ancillary task for our poster. By using this software it
allowed us to use photo manipulation techniques which allowed us to change the
poster in the way we wanted it to be seen.We used this software because it was
much more advanced then other software's. In terms of using Photoshop we had
previous experience when using this software from which meant we found it
easier to use.
14. Throughout our production stages we used the Apple Macs.We felt that using the
Macs were very useful when it came to editing or photo manipulation
software's.They were already at our disposal because these software's were
already installed onto the computers which meant they were easy to access.The
Macs itself were easy for us to use because it wasn't our first time using it we
had previous experience when using this PC , we had used them from last year.
15. We used After Effects our bumper as we felt that using Imovie was
too basic in terms of more advanced editing techniques.We also
usedAfter effects to recorded voiceover for our research and
planning.Whilst usingAfter Effects we did not have any difficulties
when using this software because we had previous knowledge of
using this software due to last year.
We used After Effects to create our bumper which would be seen
at the start of our video we used different editing techniques to
make sure our bumper looked professional.
16. For our website we decided to useWix.We had researched
into this website through Google and saw that this was the
perfect site to use in order to make the best website
possible.This was helpful in order to make our website
work because it was very simple to use and easy to navigate
our way around. However at first we did not know how to
use this website because it was our first time using this site.
After using Wix for a week we were able to use the website
which meant that we were able to design the website
effectively to our liking and we also our target audience in
mind when design the website this meant that we
considered the different colour choices and the layout of
the website in order to make more entertaining for the
audience when they would want to see the website.
17. We also used Prize for our evaluation as we wanted to be more creative and branch
out with our use of technology in order to show our diversity in using different
sites and software's. By using Prezi it allowed us to present our work in a more
interactive way for our audience to use.We had difficulties using Prezi because
we did not have any previous experience when dealing with this site which meant
it took a while before we knew how everything worked. Once we figured out how
to use it we feel that we were able to use Prezi to its full potential.
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19. We used Cameras in our evaluation as we had to record ourselves when answering
questions.This meant it was easier for us using the cameras to record because
the cameras were portable and the quality of the cameras meant that our
responses would of been clear and easy to understand.This was very easy for us
to use because we had used these cameras last year which meant we did not
have any difficulties.
20. We also used microphones to record our voices for our evaluation.
These microphones were very useful as it captured the sound
quality of our voices very well this meant that once we had
finished recording ourselves we were able to clearly understand
our answers.
21. We used prezi in our evaluation as we wanted to be more creative and think
outside of the box. Prezi allowed us to present our work in a more
interactive way which be more engaging to the audience. At first we
found it difficult because we had not used prezi before but after spending
time on it we finally understood the main functions of the website.
22. We used wordpress in our evaluation for screenshots as we needed to show
evidence in our questions when mentioning the target audience.As our
blog onWordpress was very organised we did not have any difficulties
when it came using the website because we all had previous experience
using it.
23. We are using Slideshare now for question 4. we decided to use Slideshare as
it was easy and quick to upload our PowerPoint presentation onto the
website as well as being able to embed it onto our website.This was
more suitable then opening up the whole PowerPoint which would of
been time consuming, therefore using Slideshare was the better option
as we had no problems with using this it and it was very helpful and easy
to understand.
24. We used Wix in our evaluation to create a website mainly for our answers to
the questions.We used this software because we already knew what we
could do from the production of our ancillary tasks when creating our
website.
