How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and

evaluation stages?

Phones and Communication

As both of us have Iphones we used them to our advantage.. They allowed us to message each other if we needed something e.g. Equipment, or even up coming up with new ideas. Taking pictures of locations we came across independently and sending them to each other for opinions on potential locations we could film at. Communication is and was vital in making our Film opening, it sped up the process and allowed all of us to be involved at once, and even how we would film if one of us wasn't in school that day..

Our smart phones were also vital because I kept notes on mine like how we should do a certain thing, people scripted lines, the storyline. I did this because If we lost pieces of paper that we needed it would be helpful to have had all the notes, although the batteries did die a couple times because we was filming for so long.

What we used

Creating our media project we used and learnt about different technologies which contributed to the final product of our film trailer whilst editing. Such as

Final Cut Livetype Garageband Audiotool Motion Aftereffects

Music in a trailer is one of the most important things, it holds many conventions relating to the thriller genre. Sound is used to create tension with eerie or intense music being played either as diegetic or non-diegetic material within the scene. High pitched sound is often used as it makes the spectator uncomfortable and shows how the scene might not be pleasant or something unexpected might happen. Many other uses of sound are used in thrillers and even within dialogue is usually unique to other genres as inner monologues or perhaps narrators can be found in many thriller films which create a more direct tension to the spectator making it seem as if they are experiencing the film from the characters point of view.

Motion : the application

Using the Apple Macs to create our media product we came across many different applications we could use, We used Motion to create our institutional logos and improve the lighting for our footage, Motion and Final Cut work hand in hand where clips can be sent to motion through final cut and saved straight on to final cut. On Motion we learnt how to input lights, move them around and make them apply to our film opening through playing around with them and watching them back. We also learnt how to create shapes, animate them, make them move and apply effects through adding behaviours, motion paths, recording movement and adding things from the library. We used it to add lights to intertitles and scenes of the trailer which upon review and uploading looked different in final cut

Final Cut

Using final cut we were able to upload our footage to the programme and edit it all together. As a group we picked up skills on how to use tools such as the cross fade pen which we could fade audio as it is very effective in film trailers and editing our clips into each other, e.g. if we wanted to show ‘time had passed’ or fade out the audio in our film opening also speeding clips up or down by right clicking them and setting a speed time. Our media project Learning to use final cut will contribute to our skills of making media projects and speed up the process in the future.Our skills from last years project meant that we could edit quicker independently with more knowledge and skills from what we achieved last time with feedback which we acted on

Fading audio and footage

Audiotool

At first we attempted to use Audiotool an online copyright free music tool which you can use in the browser, it allowed us to edit our track anywhere/anytime with our login, the problem we faced was not being able to record sound on the application and edit from there.

But we did learn how to use the online music kit, for future use, such as Loops Kicks Claps Machiniste Minimixer Synths

Garage BandWe used Garage Band to create our music For our film opening, we learnt to use the instruments, for example the

different keyboards, we used the sound effects and looped them, the ambient dark drone noise in the background. the tools allowed us to move around the audio to where we wanted. We found the ambient noises on there which really made a difference to our trailer, for example an eerie sound over the intertitles adds suspense.

Live Type

We used live type to create our titles for our film opening which would come in and out, but after making them and getting some feedback we realised we use use a different programme making them look much better, installing fonts that the mac didn’t have, adding light to them and making them move made them look so much better.

However I did learn how to use both programmes In live type I learnt how to use the different effect for texts, sizing, colours, fonts and timing. This knowledge allowed us to have our titles coming in fading which created mysterious titles to benefit us and fit the genre of our film opening. Through Trail and error we had difficulties with the framing between two different programmes, final cut and Livetype. The framing for each programme was different and didn't fit together which made the titles look pixelated. And also using live type it was difficult to use the framming settings and took us time to figure out the frame settings to match those of the camera.