Blogger
This was used throughout pre-production, production and postproduction.
It was used to be able to present all of our work that we have done throughout this unit.
Microsoft Excel
This was used during preproductions to be able to create our shooting script.
We used this programme because we needed to create a script rather than a story
This was a successful piece of technology used, firstly because it allowed us to present our work in various forms but it is also a very non complicated website to use and is very reliable. It allowed me personally to be able to type up my work quicker rather than typing everything out. Blogger allowed us to be able to present our work in a very modern way and being media students it fitted in very well. Using blogger throughout became very easy to me over time and has been a very helpful way to save and present work. This was successful because it made creating the script a whole lot easier. I think by using this we speed up the process of creating our script but it also made it easier by having everything ordered and set out appropriately for what we wanted. But because we had so many different steps we sometimes found it difficult to find where we were at getting lost a few
Having no personal experience with blogs and blogger being the very first blog I have ever used came across easy to me. Being able to learn about all the features it has and how to navigate around a page has come in handy when going on other sites which are similar.
Having experience with this before being able to use it again and develop my skills more made me have a better understanding on the programme I was using being able to do new things on it and feel more confident when
Microsoft PowerPoint
Issue
YouTube
board and this programme allowed us to create a script and had all the correct features that we needed. I used this This throughout programme pre-production seemed to to be able to do be the various tasks easiest one set. to use and had the best format to set my work on. This was used It was used in preto be able to production preview different documents on our blog in a simple way. This was used This was during preused to be production able to post my audience research.
times but overall I think this piece of technology was perfect for its purpose.
using it.
This programme I say was probably the most successful to use mainly because it allows you to be able to do a lot of things that you need to for certain tasks. It allowed you to be able to present your work however you wanted and made things easier because I was very familiar with this programme before. There was nothing unsuccessful when using this programme and fulfilled everything we needed to do. This programme had its difficulties at first being something new, that I have never used before at first it came with difficulties trying to learn how to use it and what each function meant on the page but after some time I got the hang of it and it started to become something I used more regularly with ease.
I didn’t really gain that much experience from this because I was very use to using the programme before. I didn’t really learn anything new when using PowerPoint again.
YouTube being a very popular and successful website was the perfect one to choose to be able to save videos and post them on our blog. Using YouTube came with ease and there were rarely any problems. The biggest problem would be the amount of time it would sometimes take to post a video but other than
Personal development through YouTube wasn’t much because it’s a website that I use a lot and the uploading process is very simple and anyone can learn how to use so there wasn’t much personal
A lot of development has happened with this because this being the first time I have ever used it, I was taught how to use an entire new website and found it easy to use after some time.
Flip cam
Digital camcorder
This was used during preproduction
This was used during production when filming all of our scenes.
To be able to record out audience research
that it wouldn’t take as long. This mainly only had one purpose and which was to record our audience feedback. It done the job well but the one thing we had to do was keep stopping it at 10 minutes and starting again to make sure everything was there and considering our audience feedback was 30 minutes we had to keep track of time. And straight from the flip cam we uploaded to YouTube without any editing which was quick and easy for us.
It was a convenient way to be able to record and allowed us to be very versatile when recording in different locations, due to its small size.
development with YouTube. There wasn’t much personal development here because all you had to do was push a button.
This was very successful because we had no troubles when it came to filming at all with a camera. The quality of shots that were filmed came out very well. Being able to have clear shots made our work look better and the quality when it came to certain shots like close ups or mid shots help made our sequence look more like a BSR film.
Personal experience when it came to using a camera was very little firstly because from doing media in GCSE I was taught how to use one of the school cameras plus my own knowledge. Although I have improved on my camera skills and being behind the camera having a more steady hand etc.
iMovie
Live type
This was used during post-production.
This was used during
This program was used because it was the best thing to be able to edit our opening sequence on.
This was used to be able
Having used iMovie before from previous projects I had gathered up a good understanding on how to use it but this time we were using a newer version of iMovie but things were practically the same for me so I didn’t notice a huge difference. Using this programme it allows you to do all that you need to do and because we are creating something which is BSR themed the editing did not have to be something that was very fancy so all we basically needed to know was how to cut. Using this piece programme at first I found
Using iMovie again allowed me to increase my experience that I already have with it. It has made me become more confident with the software and I can now use the new iMovie just as well as the old one.
Live type being a new
post-production.
Final Cut
This was used during post-production.
to create our credits.
hard to use with all different options on how to use different things I was very confused in the beginning. But over time after being taught I started to learn how to use it properly. Using this programme rather than other ones helped our graphics turn out cleaner and allowed us to be able to experiment and have more options when it came to designing graphics. We used this to edit some When using this it allowed us to do some of our videos together things which we were limited to do using and out opening iMovie, although we found the programme sequence. complicated and tricky to use at times by using it, it has made out videos better.
programme to use I have developed my skill in this programme, especially when it comes to designing and typography I have improved.
Again this being a new programme that I have used it has helped develop my editing skills being able to do new things with my video making them look better.