Thought-out the planning, research,
construction and evaluation stages of my A2 media studies coursework I used a
range of different online and computer programmes in order tom complete
everything that needed to be included within the coursework. The programs and
applications that I used to do this include:
•Blogger
•YouTube
•Prezi
•Final
Cut
Express
•iMovie
•Garage
Band
•Photoshop
The Media technologies used within my
coursework can be split into two categories. These are the online applications
and computer programs. Online application include websites that I used to help
me with my coursework such as Blogger, YouTube and Prezi. Computer programs are
the programs on the apple mac computers used to research and create the three
products within my promotional package.
To start with, I used Blogger as a
digital way of presenting all of the work I did on my promotional package for
my A2 Coursework. This included presenting all research, planning ideas, stages
taken in the creation of the three products within the promotional package, as
well as presenting my final pieces and displaying evaluation questions. Blogger
was a suitable application to use for this because it was available online
which meant that I was able to access my work from anywhere, which allowed me
to complete more work outside of school.
Blogger also allowed me to present a range of different medias on my
blog including images, videos and links.
Another media technology used within y
coursework includes YouTube. I used YouTube in the early stages of my
coursework. This
was so that I could research into trailer conventions and view trailer that
were in the same genre of the trailer that we were creating for the coursework.
YouTube allowed me to view many trailer of films and learn the conventions seen
commonly within thriller films and conventions tat al genre of trailers
contain.
Finally, the last online application I
used within my coursework was Prezi. Prezi is a website that allows you to
create a interesting presentation similar to PowerPoint. With Prezi I was able
to answer on of my final four
evaluations questions and display it in a technological way. Prezi shows
different pages in a moving presentation show. Using this allowed me to use a
different piece of technology to display a question answer in a unique way.
The other section of programs used within
my coursework are the computer programs. These programmes include Final Cut
Express, iMovie, Garage band and Photoshop.
They were all programs installed onto the Apple Mac computers within
school. We used each program in a different way and all were used towards the
creation of the three products within our films promotional package.
To start with I used Final Cut Express as
the technology programme to edit the clips captured for my trailer together. We
chose this programme because we were familiar with how ti use it and it allowed
us to complete the editing procedures needed to create our film trailer. This
includes positioning clips, cutting clips, transition, inserting text Etc. In
the past we had never had any problems using Final Cut Express. Whilst creating the film trailer as part of
my A2 Trailer me and my group experience difficulties that meant that we had to
change the editing programme of our trailer at short notice. We had to start
fro scratch with our trailer because When we opened our trailer in Final Cut
Express on day to continue editing we were not able to see the footage filmed
the sound was playing but the video was not. To resolve this we changed the
programme we were using. We started the trailer again using iMovie. This
program offered us a less complex way of editing our film trailer together. We
experience no problems with this program. Although it is less complex that
final Cut Express, it still offered u all of the features that we needed to
create our trailer. This was the biggest problem hat we were faced with during
the creation of our promotional package and once over come we were able to
compete the products to a high standard.
Another program used as part of the
construction of the film trailer was Garage band. We used this program to
create the soundtrack for the film trailer. This offered us a range of pre recorded sounds
that we could place in an order to create a soundtrack for our film
trailer. We used a range of orchestral
sound to create out soundtrack. Once we had created our sound track we were
able to export our song out of Garage Band and place it into iMovie where we
positioned the soundtrack into our trailer in the correct place.
The final program used was Adobe
Photoshop. This program was used as a way of editing the photographs taken and
used within the magazine cover and film poster created as part of the films
promotional package. We were able to removes areas of photos that were not
needed, change the lighting levels of photos to make the right light level for
the theme and genre of our film. We were also able to compete simple edits on
the photos of our characters to remove blemishes and marks that we did not want
within the photos. The main reason we
used Photoshop within out coursework was making the keyhole shape within one
photo used I our poster visible. This program was easy to use and offered us
all the photo editing features needed.
Overall Within my A2 Media Studies
coursework I used a range of different media techniques to complete the
required tasks. All programs were user friendly and once the basic controls
were grasped, I was able to use them with no problems. Over coming the editing
programme issues was the main issue that I encountered during the creation of
my coursework. I would recommend the use of these programme to people who wish
to create similar styles of media products because they we all suitable and
compatible with the product means that I needed.
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