1. Question 4
How did you use media
technologies in the construction,
research and planning and
evaluation stages?
By Bethany Harvey

2. Software I used
In order to produce the ancillary tasks and my main product, I needed to use
many media technologies throughout the research, planning, construction
and evaluation stages.
I used:
 Adobe Photoshop CS4
 Adobe Premier Pro CS4
 Adobe Encoder
 Audacity
 Slideshare
 YouTube
 Prezi
 Camera
 Microphone

3. Adobe Photoshop CS4
“CS4 features smoother panning and zooming, allowing faster image editing at
a high magnification. The interface is more simplified with its tab-based
interface making it cleaner to work with.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#CS4
I used Adobe Photoshop for the planning and construction stage of my task. I
used it for the planning stage when I was producing my storyboards and for the
construction stage for when I was producing my ancillary tasks.
Using photoshop allowed me to use special effects within my ancially tasks, .e.g
it allowed me to produce the title of my film for my poster and my magazine.

4. Photoshop

5. Adobe Premier Pro CS4
Adobe Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. It is part of
the Adobe Creative Suite, a suite of graphic design, video editing, and web development
applications developed by Adobe Systems, though it can also be purchased separately.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Premiere_Pro
I used Premier Pro for my construction and evaluation stages.
This software allowed me to produce my drafts and my final trailer and also let me put
effects and transitions into my trailer. However, after learning how to use the software, I
suffered a lot of problems when I started to edit and produce my trailer.
I'm not completely sure what the problem was, but everytime I wanted to play my
footage on the software it would play for around 5 seconds and then stop and jump to
the end. Therefore, when I was cutting down videos and editing them I couldn't see
what I had cut completely. Because of this it took me a lot longer than expected to
produce my final trailer after producing 2 drafts.
I would have like to have used more effects within my trailer, however with me not
being able to see the effect when I put it on I had to guess and hope for the best.
However, after managing with the software I was happy with my trailer considering all
the problems I have followed.
I used this software at the evaluation stages, so that I could show evidence for what I
say in my evaluation.

6. Premier Pro

7. Adobe Encoder
Adobe® Flash® Media Live Encoder 3.2 live audio and video capture software is a
media encoder that streams audio and video in real time to Adobe Flash Media
Server software or Flash Video Streaming Service.
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash-media-encoder.html
I used this software for when I was encoding my videos from Premier Pro and
turning them into files of their own so that I would be able to upload them to
YouTube and onto my blog.
This software was used at the construction stage and the evaluation as I
produced some video examples for my evaluation, and for my construction I
used encoder to encode my videos so they can be uploaded.

8. Encoder

9. Audacity
Audacity is a free, easy-to-use and multilingual audio editor and recorder.
audacity.sourceforge.net/about
I used this software in my construction so that I could say what I had done while
producing my film trailer.
This software was simple to use and I only needed a microphone so that I could
taklk and record. After I recored on Audacity, I exported the file so that I could
use it in Premier Pro so that I can put voiceovers to my videos of evidence.
When producing my trailer I used audacity to produce one voice over that is
used within my trailer. This is the female scream at the end in which I got one of
my cast to do.

10. Audacity

11. Prezi
Prezi is a web-based presentation application and storytelling tool that uses a
single canvas instead of traditional slides.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prezi
I used prezi to produce an interactive presentation. This software is online and
free to use, I created my own username and this software allows me to edit my
presentation online and also add effects that MS Powerpoint don't offer, e.g.
you can have a path which is the order of your slides.
Prezi is easy to use and allowed me to do different things. I used this in my
construction stage to show all the scenes I had changed/removed within my
trailer drafts.

12. Prezi

13. YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view
videos.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
I used YouTube to upload all my construction videos, my trailer drafts and my
final trailer. After uploading them to YouTube it allowed me to put them onto
my blog so that other people can see it and also so it can be evidence for the
construction of my trailer.

14. YouTube

15. Slideshare
SlideShare is an online slide hosting service. Users can upload files in the
following file formats: PowerPoint, PDF, or OpenOffice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlideShare
I used Slideshare so that I was able to upload my presentation online, so that it
can be accessible on my blog. I used this for my research and planning stage as
well as construction and evaluation, because having this software allowed me to
make as many presentations as I needed at any stage and upload them onto my
blog.

16. Slideshare