QUESTION 3; HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION, RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?
CAMERA
The camera was the most important media technology we used throughout the process of creating our trailer, alongside final cu. We used this camera as this enabled us to film better in the dark - this was something that was shown majority in our trailer, so it had a good purpose for this.
The camera also produces a large amount of data. Without the camera we wouldn't have been able to produce the majority of our dark shots. The camera was also used to record videos and take photos (to use for planning, evaluation and our magazine/poster) |
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WEEBLY
We created our website on another site called 'weebly'. We used this website to show and explain our blogs, research, planning and evaluation. It is a site that enables us to portray our coursework clearly. Weebly has default themes for websites but for a horror we had to chose our own template and adjust it to what we felt was most appropriate for a horror based website. we had to create our own toolbar and its contents.
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FINAL CUT PRO
Final cut pro was the software/programme we used to create and edit our trailer 'voodoo'. We had an advantage of using this programme due to all of our media group having used it in the past to create a variety of media, including our opening title sequences which we made last year. This meant we all knew particular shortcuts to use making it quicker and easier and performing them correctly. We had to create a new project with final cut pro so we had somewhere to save our work. As we started putting clips together we had to create a new timeline so we could edit our clips (effects, transitions, speed) and start putting them all in the correct order. Final cut gives us many opportunities to get really creative and allows us to explore a lot of things. This is an advanced programme which makes us create the best possible trailer.
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We also used final cut pro to make our titles within our trailer. This allowed us to change the font as well as the positioning. We could also change when each individual word came up on the screen; as for our titles we didn't want the whole title coming up at once. With this programme we were able to set them where we wanted on the screen, our background colour, our colour text, our font and how they came on the screen in our trailer.
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VIDEO EDITING
There are many edits you are able to do in video clips such as putting effects on them to make them a particular lighting/colour to fit the day or type of mood you are trying the create. you can also slow down or speed up your clips to add more effect. While constructing our trailer we had to edit our clips to make it look more like a trailer rather than a bunch of clips just put together. For example where Sarah is screaming we made a jump cut effect to make it more devil like and scary, like she was going out of control. We decided to add the effect on it to make the trailer look more professional and to portray Sarah as going mad.
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