How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
In the planning and research stages of this task, I used
YouTube, DVDs, Wikipedia and IMDb a lot. I used YouTube to view previous
trailers from old students and some official trailers. This was to get a good
sense of what I need to include in my trailer and the sorts of camera work that
I should use. I used DVDs to view whole movies, to see how suspense is built
and what music, if any, is used. I also used this to listen to the dialogue, as
I was considering using dialogue within my trailer. However, I found that the
moments with the most suspense had no dialogue but used sounds such as panting,
footsteps, heartbeats etc. I used IMDb to look into further details of films
and also to look at movie posters. IMDb is a great tool used to find out more
information about a film because the public can also rate the films, and you
have access to a lot of reviews, both professional and user-submitted. IMDb
helps you to gain a broad perspective on a film without actually watching it or
giving any spoilers about the film away. Wikipedia was used mainly for my History of Horror essay. Wikipedia is very informative and is useful to gather a lot of
information about one topic.
When we were creating our product, we used a camera (Canon
PowerShot A810) to film the product and gather photographs for the magazine
cover and poster that we later needed to design. The camera records video,
sound and images. We used this camera as it has high quality recordings and I
owned it personally, so we didn’t need to gain permission from the college to
rent out a camera and we could film spontaneously at any point if we needed to.
Digital cameras such as the canon PowerShot A810 are used frequently because
they are easy to carry around and makes transferring data from the camera to
the editing software easily.
Post production, we used Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Wikipedia
and Blogger. Premiere pro was used, by far, the most. Premiere pro allows the
user to manipulate video and sound to create a media product. This includes
tools such as transitions, filters, colour correctors and more. This was used
only to create the trailer aspect of this assignment; I found this program easy
to use. I mainly used the ‘dissolve to black’ transition, as most of the clips
were darkened to follow the typical conventions of horror trailers. The program
also allows its users to manipulate audio. We used this feature to delete any
sound that had been recorded with the PowerShot A810, and used a royalty free
soundtrack from A site called Incompetech, a site that allows its users to
download royalty free music tracks and sounds with no fee for personal or
commercial use. We also used this site to download a creaking sound for a
certain shot and a heartbeat which we used to create more suspense toward the
end of the trailer. I used Wikipedia to gather statistics and facts about
stalkers, such as the definition of stalkers and how many people are stalked at
some point in their lifetimes. I also used Blogger to post and share my
coursework. Blogger is a website owned by Google and allows users to create a
blog for free, on which they are able to post text, video, images and links and
share them with as many people as they wish. The website is easy to use.
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| Audio editor featured in Premiere Pro |
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| Three-colour corrector used in Premiere Pro |
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