Evaluation Question 4
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The document discusses the various new media technologies used at different stages of a filmmaking coursework project. Word was used for planning, scripting, diaries, questionnaires, and analysis. Prezi allowed for creative presentations, especially for movie poster analysis. BUZZAN was used for mind mapping during research and planning, especially for character profiles and initial trailer ideas. Animoto created stylish videos by importing images. Slideshare distributed PowerPoints online. Wordle visually represented common words and icons from research. YouTube distributed the film and allowed research of conventions. Blogger documented the project from brainstorming through development. iMovie edited the trailer. An iPhone provided photography and filming. Photoshop created the poster and magazine cover. External
Evaluation Question 4
- 1. Q4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
- 2. Word was an essential part of our coursework. We used it to script, to plan, and print out things we needed whilst filming. It helped as a diary where we wrote things we needed to do and what to do next. We used word to make a questionnaire and even used its chart section to analyse the questionnaires. Prezi allowed us to create dynamic presentations. It gave us ways of presenting information more creatively than slide share and acted as another way by which we used new media technologies to share our research. It was particularly helpful when I was analysing movie posters. BUZZAN is an online mind map program which allowed us to creatively and effectively plan our film in early stages of research and planning. We used it put our thoughts down, especially when thinking about the character profiles and initial trailer idea. Animoto is a software that when you import images it creates a dynamic and very stylistic video. When used with text we are able to create a different way of showing codes and conventions of our British Social Realism genre. Slideshare gave us a way of embedding our many PowerPoints onto our blog and distributing them online. Slideshare works as a more visual way than word and encourages us to stop putting large amounts of text into a word file and posting it too ‘text heavy’ Wordle is a fairly simple program that visually represents texts. I specifically used it when I was researching the most common iconographic features of our genre. I also used it to show the most common words that newspapers used to describe young people (our target audience). The most popular terms like “yob” “unemployment” and “crime” were in the biggest font. YouTube allowed for easy distribution of our film and gave a new way of sharing information during research and planning. It was not only useful for practical work but also acted as a way of researching similar media products and researching their conventions. Blogger – we used blogger throughout our coursework. We used it right from the brainstorming of ideas, through the development and onto our final finished pieces. We could easily embed pictures and text for visual posts.
- 3. IMovie was where we did all of the trailer editing. It is modern and contemporary so we had very up to date software that made editing a smooth and reasonably painless process. IPhone. Through the use of technological convergence the IPhone gave us a very high spec camera that was always with us, allowing for very easy use. We took photos for posters and filmed our feedback in post production. It also has filter and cropping abilities. Photoshop was used mainly to create our poster and magazine cover. It is the most effective way of turning regular photos into professional looking images. Panasonic HX-DC2 is the camera we used when we began filming. However, after reviewing the footage we realized how bad the image quality was. Its short battery life also caused us many troubles throughout the filming process. External Hard drives. All throughout our coursework we were dealing with large video files. Often regular memory sticks did not have the capacity available to transport all of our files, especially towards the end of the process. Therefore we had to use a ‘WD elements’ 1 TB storage device.