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

WHAT MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES DID I USE?

Camera Wordpress YouTube Imovie on apple Macs Photoshop Internet Slideshare Prezzi

WORDPRESS Throughout my research and planning, production and post

production I have found Wordpress really useful to blog and keep track of my progress.

It is easy and simple to use and practical to compare posts, for example I am able to look back at my first posts of trying to create a magazine to my actual magazine and see the progress I have made.

It has been useful as there are different ways to blog such as specifically blogging photos, videos or links of just a simple way to blog text.

CAMERA For the filming of my Soap opera and pictures for the ancillary tasks I

used a cannon 450. It was easy to use and had a standard quality and allowed me to record

a range of shots, close ups, tracking etc. However I believe by using this camera it had a negative effect on my work as when I transferred the footage onto the Apple Mac it was grainy.

Evidence to support the camera not having very good quality footage when transferred was found when I had to film a short clip on my iphone( due to not having access to the camera).The quality was much better ,however because of the difference in quality I was unable to use the footage from my iphone because there was a vast difference.

Overall I feel my work was effected by the quality of the camera and because it was a well known brand and had good reviews, I did not expect the outcome of the footage to be as poor as it was. I found the camera was better for photographing still shots for my magazine front cover rather then using it to film.

IMOVIE/ APPLE MACS For my editing during construction I used imovie to edit all my

footage and put the trailer together. I believe this was my most important media technology as without this my work would not have merged together.

Whilst editing on imovie I was able to have freedom to move clips around for example the feet walking away from the murder was originally before the close up of the murdered victim, however when re assessing it I decided to move it.

IMOVIE/ APPLE MACS CONTINUED... Imovie also allowed me to add sound effects ( the sirens at the

end of the trailer) and change the levels of colour for example I was able to change the feet walking away to black and white to give a cold effect that someone had been murdered.

Overall I feel imovie was a good programme to use to edit however along the way I came across a few problems. As I hadn't used the software before it took me a while to work out how to use it effectively, the second issue was the Mac itself wouldn't let me save my work to overcome this I had to research on the internet what to do.

SLIDESHARE/ PREZZI

To transfer power points onto word press, I have had to use another media technology called slide share. To then get it onto word press all I have to do is copy the link and to view it the slideshare opens up in another tab.

Prezzi is another technology I have used to incorporate into my work ,again to view it on word press I need to copy the link and to view it, it opens up in another tab.

YOUTUBE I used YouTube to upload different parts of my coursework as it

gave me another type of media to incorporated into my work. I used YouTube to show a short video of my story board but also

uploaded my final product onto there. This is because I know YouTube has good reviews and would be a reliable source to put my work onto so it could be transferred to word press.

When putting the link onto word press it is easily accessible to view as it opens up into a new tab.

INTERNET

I used the internet throughout all of my media coursework, in my research and planning I looked at different magazine front covers and posters to gain ideas and also sourced them to analyse.

When constructing my soap I used the internet to see what appeals to a younger audience and also to gain additional knowledge about soap operas which allowed me to create an opera to appeal to my target audience.

PHOTOSHOP Throughout my construction I used Photoshop constantly. I used it to edit images,

create my magazine front cover and also the soap poster

During my research stage we had a tutorial on how to use Photoshop, after this tutorial I decided to begin to create a magazine so I knew what tools to use and how to lay it out when I had to create my final magazine front cover.

Photoshop allowed my to make my Images look professional for example removing white lines around the images being able to sharpen the images and blending them into the background, it also allowed my to portray the characters subtly but to fit my storyline of a murder for example, I used drop shadows on the two girls behind the main character to show them negatively.

First attempt at a TV Magazine

My Final magazine