How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stage?

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

2. Throughout the whole project, many different
forms of technology and software was used.
Each software had its own unique purpose, for
example different software was used for the
planning and research, Evaluating feedback
given, Editing the short horror film, designing
my film poster and lastly designing my film
review double page spread.

3. Research
Firstly I will start with the various software,
that I used to carry out my research and then
present this information. When gathering
information that later determined what genre
my horror movie was going to be and what my
target audience was going to be. I used two
similar websites firstly I used a website called
surveymonkey. This is a website that help
create easy questionnaires I was then able to
sent this questionnaire to different people. I
then used surveymokeys own result analysis
tool to then condense this information. The
other website I used was called SmartSurvey.
In my opinion smart survey is better out of the
two, becuase once people had filled out the
questionnaire. This website automatically gave
accurate figures to show the results from the
quesionnaire. This then helped me in the later
stages of the film production.

4. Evaluation
At some stages during my evaluations. I used a
recording software called Vacaroo. The reason
why I used this instead of soundcloud, was
becuase I didn't have to make a special
account just to use it. There are two options
that you can select while using Vacaroo.
Option 1 is too record from your computer
while using a microphone. Option 2 is to
upload a recoding to Vacaroo. Then the
website will process the recording ,then you
can embed this onto your blog. When I used
Vacaroo I chose option 2 for the reason that I
do not have a microphone. Therefore to
record my voice I recorded myself on my
phone. Using the Voice recorder application.

5. Storyboarding
When it came to
storyboarding
firstly we drew
out. Individual
scenes on pieces
of paper. Once this
was all completed,
when then used a
scanner, to scan
these drawings in.
These scan ins
were then
uploaded onto our
blogs.

6. Filming
To record our horror film we used the
Panasonic HDC- TM350 camera. The
features on the camera were somewhat
basic. As we were filming in the dark.
We thought that we could have used the
flash light feature on the camera
however this was not suitable. For the
reason that it was not bright enough.
Therefore we had to use our mobile
phones. Using the flashlight application
was useful as it provided much needed
light. Even though this provided much
needed light, in my opinion it didn't
provide as much as we needed. This was
evident in Dhillans Death scene as we
could see that the footage looks grainy,
due to the filming being done too late at
night. This would have not been a
problem if there was a sufficient amount
of light.

7. Editing
When editing the 1st draft of our short
horror film. Firstly I used Windows Movie
Maker, however due to its lack of
features. I decided to use the specialised
software called Adobe After Effects. With
more and more practice I managed to
understand how to use this software
effectively. In addition to this by
watching tutorial on the internet this
further helped me, to create effective
visual effects. For example by using
Adobe After Effects, I was able to create
a professional looking title sequence.
Also by using this software I was able, to
change the picture quality by using the
various settings on Adobe After Effects.

8. Poster
To create the poster I adobe Photoshop.
The reason for this was because I felt as
if I can create a realistic yet professional
looking poster. In addition to this
because I use this software while
studying graphic design. I was
comfortable while using this software. I
was able to use this software to edit the
my main picture in many ways. For
example I used the difference cloud
effect. This enabled me to create the
element of mist on my poster. Also I
changed the opacity to create the link
between the black and blue colours.
Lastly using Cayans was effective as this
enabled me to create the blue light in
the background of the poster.

9. Review
To create the film review, I used Adobe
InDesign. The reason why I used this
software instead of Photoshop, was
because InDesign specialises in the
element of Typography. Adobe InDesign
has various applications that enabled me
to do things such as formatting text and
paragraph positioning. These cannot be
used in Photoshop. By using these
applications I was able to make the text
look professional and structured. In
addition to this I inserted a drop cap.
This also made the film review look more
professional.