Task 4
- 1. How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
- 2. Websites / online applications The websites/online applications that were used, were Internet Explorer/ Safari/ Chrome, Mahara, YouTube, OneDrive, SlideShare, Prezi and Office 365. The different internet browsers were used to access all online applications used for research and presenting the different steps of our three media products. We used Mahara to place our research onto our journals so we could refer back to research throughout the creation of the three media products. OneDrive was used to share files between the members of the group, this allowed us to quickly and efficiently work on lots of different parts of our media products at once, Office 365 was used for the same thing, however was often done for more text based file transfer. SlideShare and Prezi were both used to present the research found by different members of our group, this allowed us to quickly find the suitable information which correlated with the work we were doing at the time.
- 3. Software The software used to create our three media product were Adobe Photoshop, Adobe illustrator, Garage Band and Final Cut Pro X. Photoshop was used to make the magazine cover and posters picture sections with the files then being transported into Illustrator to add any text needed on the two media files. Garage band was used to create the sound track that went on the teaser trailer for ‘Christmas Cavern’, it was a version of Silent Night that I manipulated in Garage Band by speeding sections up and adding effects to it. Final Cut Pro was what the editing of the teaser trailer itself was done on, originally we imported all files from the camera onto the software and then cut and edited clips to create a conventional horror trailer. All of these different software's were very good at doping the particular tasks we gave them, however it took time to transport files between different pieces of software throughout the editing of all the media products, this was the disadvantage of all the different software types.
- 4. All computer equipment and devices The computer equipment and devices used to create our three media product were Apple Mac’s, Sennheiser headphones, an I-Pad, our mobile phones and our laptops. The Mac’s were used to allow us access to the different software types, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Garage Band and Final Cut Pro. The headphones allowed us to listen to the sound track being created in Garage Band as well allowing us to listen to various sound effects used in our final cut of ‘Christmas Cavern’. The I-pad, mobile phones and laptops were used to store various pieces of the three media products that were then put together to create the final products. Each of these pieces of equipment were good at achieving their individual uses, however due to us using many different pieces of equipment it took us lots of time to transport files between the devices, this was the disadvantage of using lots of different devices.
- 5. Digital camera equipment (Canon 80D) The digital camera equipment (Canon 80D)items used to create our three media product were Manual Focus and Auto Focus. The manual focus allows the camera user to focus to the desired location and depth, whereas automatic focus is when the camera decides on the best focus point for the picture or film and adapts on its own. We used automatic focus throughout the majority of filming of clips and taking pictures, however we used manual focus for a select few clips that we wanted to blur in and out of focus. This allowed us to create an eerie effect for the sections of our teaser trailer that needed added atmosphere for the audience. The disadvantage of using different focus types is that it took time to change between the two focuses and decide what clips would look best in what focus type. Also filming clips in manual focus took many attempts to do correctly. Automatic Focus Manual Focus