Question 3- How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages? S.H
FINAL CUT PRO
Final Cut Pro was the programme we used to create and edit our trailer. All members of our group all know how to use Final Cut as we have all used in media in the past, this gave our group and advanatge as we already knew how to use it correctly. We had to create a new project to have a place to save our work, when we started putting clips together we had to create a new time line so we could edit our clips and see everything all in order. Final Cut gives us many oppotunities to get really creative and allows us to do whatever we please.
GREEN SCREENING
Green screening is a fantastic way to make videos much more entertaining and intresting to watch. We used green screening a number of times throughout our whole procress of making our trailer and even when we came to doing interviews.
This part in our trailer was green screened. We filmed Mrs Arkell in our green screen room reading of our script and we then just simply edited the background on finalcut pro to a news show background, this gave the effect of Mrs Arkell being a real news presenter in a studio. this was really effective for us as it was much better than filming in a room with the mise-en-scene not fitting our trailer. Green screening allows us to pick the background and make it relevant to our trailer and certian scence throughout it.
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In our interview video we green screened a lot in to it. The first picture is for the opening sequence. We made an overlay on an animation to start of the video.
It bounced around the screen which was far better than our original video. In our original video we had no movement for the begining it was just flash pictures of the people we interviewed. Adding this animation added excitement to the video and people said they liked the video much more after the animation was added as it was no longer boring to watch. |
As we asked a lot of people questions we wanted to keep on track of what answers where given. In this screen shot the young lady is answering the question "who would you rather have tortured a male or female?" when people gave their answer and reason why we green screened a tally chart on top so as the video went on we knew how many people said what they prefered. So when they said male or female another tally would be added to the chart.
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In this screen shot when we asked "what trailers stick out for you and why" we green screened a shot of the horror trailer in the backgrpound for the duration the person spoke about why it stuck our for them. The clip changes each time another horror trailer is mentioned and the duration changes depending on how much the person spoke about the trailer. Adding the clip was a good idea as if the people watching had not seen the trailer the person is talking about it gives them a chance to see a clip of it and see why it was a successful trailer. Also their answers helped us out to as we then looked at the trailers and how they where effective and we could make ours like the ones already out there and how we could improve ours making it different from the rest.
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QUICK TIME PLAYERwe also used the software 'Quick Time Player' this allows you to record the screen as you go along. We used quick time player to record us using picmonkey as we edited a photo. Picmonkey is also another website we used and with many uses of different multimedia functions we edited a picture ready for a magazine spread. when I made this video i then put it in to Final Cut and made a new project, I sped up the original video to a speed which was much more reasonable and i also added a soundtrack on top just to make the video more interersting to watch.
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We came to use Photoshop when we wanted to create our magazine cover and poster. Photoshop allows us to get really creative and make the poster and magazine cover exactly how we want it. Below is the opriginal picture we used for our poster and the final piece.
As you can see we have used a great range of effects which picmonkey was provide us with. The use of the red lights give off a sense of pain and danger in this picture, we also used the 'veins' tool but streched them out to make it look like shocks of lightening.
We used strawpoll to help us with our questionaire, strawpoll creates an easy way for people to answer questions for us. Its a simple mutiple choice question and answer but the results are really effective for us as it shows us at the end in a precentage what answer was clicked the most. From this we were able to see what horror genre was most liked, what type of killer was most prefered and what location is seen as most chilling.
We also used edexcel to get a good layout for our questionaire. Edexcel allows us to put our answers to our questions in a pie chart form, just to add a different variarty to our website. It also stands out as it is very clear to understand. It gives you a clear answer on what people thought was best and from this we was able to make our trailer appeal to what the viewers wanted most. The questions come up slide by slide then at the end we took the resluts and made this pie chart to show the results.
PREZIPrezi is a good website to create a short animation filled with information. We created a prezi for our distrabution company page. A short prezi was created with information on about what a distrabution company is and examples of ones which are well known. Prezi works like a slide show, you click the next arrow at the bottom of the scren and it moves on to the next slide, using Prezi is far better than using a powerpoint as it gives you a chance to be creative and it looks much more professional.
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