Evaluation Question 4- how did you use media technologies in the construction, research and planning and evaluation stages?

RESEARCH

Primary research- Finding short films on Future short channel to analyse in terms of narrative. Giving me ideas for my own.

Tutorials for Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 and Adobe Photoshop CS5.5.

Used to find feature length films trailers that I could not find the film for on You Tube. That were based around dreams.

Primary research- I also used this for searching for feature length films to understand narrative more easily.

Also used for secondary research-looking at other students work to see if there’s worked or not.

ONLINE

SOFTWARE

Microsoft PowerPoint was used to gather research of poster and film review analysis’. To upload onto slide share.

VLC Player used to watch and take snapshots of the shorts that I was unable to upload onto Tumblr.

Prezi used to present a couple of film analysis’.

PLANNING

ONLINE

SOFTWARE

HARDWARE

Facebook was used to organise filming dates

Microsoft Paint was used in the creation of poster designs.

Celtx was used in the creation of the final script.

Bubbl.us is an online tool that can be used to create a mind map which I have done so for the planning stages of the poster.

Microsoft Word was the main piece of software used in creating first drafts of the script and shot lists. However, with the creation of the script I found that it took a long time to get this done, sticking to the layout of a script so I went on to use Celtx as it already had preset indentations to use which sped up the whole process of creating this.

I used my Samsung GT- S5230 Edge Quad Band phone to also organise filming dates through texts but also used to take pictures of possible locations to film.Possible images for the ancillary tasks but

found that when uploading them onto Tumblr, the quality of images were not that great.

CONSTRUCTION

SOFTWARE

HARDWARE

VLC Player was used to preview footage before uploading onto premiere to edit them.

It was also used to preview the short before uploading the final version onto YouTube

Adobe Photoshop CS5 was used to create the poster applying the colour splash affect and a title.

Microsoft Word was used in the creation of the film review. There were alternatives to this like Adobe Illustrator as that would have been able to make it look more professional but had no knowledge of how to use this and felt that I could use word.

A canon 550D camera was used to film the footage for the short. Filmed in 720p at 30 frames a second. With a manual zoom and focus.

The camera was placed on a tripod to keep the camera steady while shooting.

This was also used to take the pictures required for the ancillary tasks of a poster and film review.

A Sony digital recorder was used to record the sound from the library for the end section of the short.

Adobe Premiere Pro CS5.5 was used to edit the footage I had taken and sound. Using a leave colour effect during the dream section of the short, leaving the main character in colour with the rest in black and white. Using continuity editing with cross dissolves and fades.

EVALUATION

ONLINE

SOFTWARE

Glogster was used to present the second evaluation. So I could compare both ancillary tasks to the short film to see how they are effective as a combination.

Prezi was used to present the first evaluation to show the conventions that I have used, developed and challenged.

I used YouTube to annotate the final piece in terms of what my audience feedback said.

Facebook was used to send the short to people with the questionnaire to get feedback from

Microsoft PowerPoint was used to present this evaluation question.

With all research, planning, construction work and evaluation questions uploaded onto my blog on Tumblr.