Media Technologies Pre-Production Technology Used
Blogger
YouTube
Used for
Why
Successful
Unsuccessful
Blogger was used to present all of my work collectively and was used throughout the project.
To demonstrate all the tasks I accomplished in a neat, chronological order.
The simple layout and tools available in ‘Blogger’ made posting my work easy. I was able to hyper link, add pictures, change font or colour and highlight where appropriate.
There were a few occasions where blogger deleted some of my posts which I found frustrating. Sam and I spent 2 hours writing a treatment which then blogger deleted.
I have had past experience with YouTube, so I personally felt it was very simple as I was already accustomed to it.
YouTube sometimes took too long to upload videos, slowing down my productivity rate a little.
This was used to Using this made viewing my present: work easier. Once I uploaded - My production log the video’s to YouTube I then videos posted them on my blog. -My Animatic Creating the animatic in -The Feedback from video format rather than our draft piece taking individual pictures -Our final Production helped to keep my blog uncluttered.
Throughout the entire project as a search engine.
I used this as my key search engine, as it is more reliable than Yahoo or Bing (in my opinion)
Research was vital throughout this project, and Google helped me to find the desired information without hassle.
Scribd
Issuu
I found myself force quitting at times.
However there was a difficulty which cost me a lot of time; once the document I uploaded to Scribd compressed, it cut the edges of the document out which meant a loss of information was incurred. So I decided to switch to Issuu which was a lot more reliable.
Used to present my Microsoft word documents and power point presentations.
I used this to present my power point presentations and Microsoft documents in a compressed neat format on blogger.
Scribd was useful in the sense that it was easy to copy the embedding code and then paste into a blog post.
Used to present my Microsoft word documents and power point presentations
I used this to present my power point presentations and Microsoft documents in a compressed neat format on blogger.
It could be a little slow This was a lot quicker than sometimes but this was due using Scribd, and it did not to the server rather than the crash or lose any of my actual site in itself. work.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Sony Cybershot
Microsoft word
Photoshop
It was successful as I was familiar to the programme, allowing me to use the function tools correctly without wasting time or getting confused about any features.
There were no difficulties in using this.
I used this at the beginning to present my pitch and towards the end to demonstrate part three of my evaluation.
The best way to approach creating the documents stated was through using a slide show system as it would be easy and effective.
This was used to take pictures of my digipak plans and initial magazine advert which was hand drawn.
It was available at the time, so I decided to use it as it had a removable memory card which could be used at school.
It was a camera I personally own, so I knew how to work it.
This was to present all my documents throughout my coursework.
Microsoft documents is the easiest way to present treatments and presentations.
It’s a known programme that is easy to use, much like PowerPoint.
It was slow when converting into a pdf, to upload to issuu. It was long winded to convert and then upload
This was the easiest and most useful programme for editing pictures and creating a digipak
Sam had all the skills and knowledge to use the software and create the ancillary products.
I did not have the skills to use this, otherwise I would have helped more with the creation of the two ancillary products.
Used to create the digipak and magazine advert
There were no difficulties in my experience, but sometimes the camera did flash when un-needed.
The digipak and magazine advert
Much like photoshop it was useful to post into sometimes.
Sam and I both knew how to use this, so if there was a problem I would take a look in fireworks
Fireworks is not as advanced or as useful as photoshop, but due to my lack of skill (which I make up for in final cut) I had no choice but to use this
To listen to our artists song
We were not entirely aware if the artists song would be available on YouTube so we used this to listen to the song.
It was helpful as we used this to create our shooting script.
We could not download or rip the song from this site. We had to rip it from YouTube.
I used this in my research to find my initial artists.
It was a good collection of unsigned artists that I could have used.
It was easy to search through and use, along with the fact that it had the accessibility of being able to search through genre.
Majority of the artists do not meet your expectations and you have to search very hard to find the type of artist you want.
I had to communicate with Sam on occasion and this was an effective way of doing so.
I could send attachments to myself and or sam to later use and edit.
Sometimes sam would not check his email making it difficult to get the message across.
Fireworks
Overplay Unsigned. com
Used to email work to myself. Hotmail
Production Technology Used
Used for
Sony HD digital camcorder This was used to film the entire production.
Taking pictures during moment when my Sony camera wasn’t available iPhone 4s
Why
Successful
I chose this specific camera It did not have any for the brilliant quality it gave disadvantages, I was a me, it was a lot easier to little worried in case if the upload footage to the macs camera got stolen whilst because there was no tape filming but apart from that involved and erasing footage there was no hassle in was not a problem as you regards to using it had to just select and technologically. remove. It is a nice piece of new media technology which I used for capturing filming moments. This was also used in a few shots during filming for talhas picture.
The benefit was that it is portable and I always have it with me, therefore I was always able to capture needed moments.
Unsuccessful The only worry I had was if it got stolen during filming, but everything ran smoothly.
The camera is good, but it is not the same as using a 15 megapixel camera.
Sony Cyber shot camera
For the photo shoots done with Sam.
Used during the filming stage.
Tripod
BalckBerry Phone Used in a few shots of the final product.
Imac
At the time we used it to upload our footage.
To use for photoshoots done in New Cross and at the studio in the media department.
It was easy to use and slow the SD card into the iMac and upload the pictures.
Using the tripod guaranteed steady camera movements.
Using a tripod helped me to achieve successful pans and angled shots without any unwanted movement.
It was easily available to us and there was no hassle to use it, also we thought about how it may relate to our audience if a character is using this phone.
Talha always had his phone, so if we needed to reshoot, it would not have been a problem.
The imac was mainly used during post production rather than during. We used the imac to determine what shots we needed and did not need.
It was useful as it helped us to get organized and realise what we need and don’t need in terms of shots, variety and angles.
The flash it gave reflected sometimes, making images useless.
Sometimes the tripods we rented out had been broken, and they were difficult to adjust due to a faulty.
Blackberrys freeze on occasion and rebooting takes a very long time.
It made me force quit sometimes which was irritating as I had numerous tabs open.
Final cut pro
Dafont
Wordle
The main advantage was my experience with final cut pro. It was nice to be able to edit as quick as possible whilst most of my colleagues edited at a much slower pace. I was confident even though I started editing late.
Used to edit all the clips for the music video together
It was the best software to use for editing. It was easy to use as well as easy to understand. The features were familiar to me.
Used in our digipak and magazine advert
We used photoshop to remove all the white areas and then use on our prodcuts.
We had a large variety to choose from
Used for the digipak and magazine advert.
It was used to later add to the digipak as an art feature.
It is quick, creative, and visually appealig
Sometimes remembering certain shortcuts was difficult, but I simply googled and revised what I forgot.
Every time Sam exported text from dafont to photoshop he had to spend long periods of time removing the white spaces in the letters.
If you do not have the text typed up online, you have type everything out which can be time consuming at times.
Post Production Technology Used Photo Booth
Microphone
Imovie
Used for Filming myself and sam for part four of our evaluation
Why
Successful
This was the best programme It was quick and filmed in on the imac to use for filming little clips which we edited with the webcam together
Unsuccessful You could not click on other documents or the desktop whilst filming which was difficult due to the fact that we had a script on Microsoft word
Recording our voices for part two of the evaluation
It was the best option of recording our voices, using photobooth wouldn’t have been clear.
You can directly plug it into the imac
It was very heavy, so we had to take turns and breaks holding it.
Used to edit the clips together to create our final piece.
simple yet efficient enough to edit parts of the evaluation together.
The simplicity of imovie made it easy to edit our Photobooth footage together. It is good to use for footage which is not HD.
It deletes any footage you delete, which I was not used to after using final cut pro as it usually saves every piece of filming no matter what.