Evaluation Task 4 - How did you use new media technologies in construction & research, planning & evaluation stages?

Hardware

Above is an image of all of the equiptment we used - A camera, tripod, computer/ laptop. We also used cellotape to secure the camera to a car in part of our teaser so that we could get different camera angles and without the camera shaking.

When capturing the animatic, I used a Epson printer which has a high quality scanner so that we could have good quality images of our drawings to use for the animatic, rather than using a camera as it will not focus on the paper properly, therefore meaning a less sharp and lower quality animatic.


We used a Nikon D40 camera to capture the still image of the demon character in our film, the images of location, actors and film diary images. The reason for using this camera is because of the high quality, rather than using something such as a phone camera. We also used this to capture our images for our film poster and magazine, so again they are high quality images.

Software

YouTube was used frequently throughout our research, planning and final film stages.
In our research and planning, YouTube was used to research and display film trailers on my blog by embedding them and different institution logo footage. It was also used to display our animatic and then our final film. It is affective dislpaying these on Youtube as videos there are easily acessable and can be viewed in high quality, also to fill a whole screen. By having it with a higher quality to our film it will ensure it is enjoyed more.


Blogger is the most used software in this whole process, as it is used to store all of the research and planning and then to display our final film all in one place. Tools of Blogger which are essential are the fact images can be included, but also that videos from YouTube can be embedded to be displayed there.


We have used Adobe Premiere for editing our final film, but it has also been used for creating our animatic so that we could add transistions we would like to use for the images and then upload it as the correct file type to YouTube. For our final film we used many editing transistions which are avaliable with Premiere such as dip to white, dip to black and the avaliability of the text tool.


Adobe Photoshop has been used for editing the still image of the demon character which is used in our final film. Also Photoshop has been used for making our magazine and poster. There are many tools which are helpful for high quality editing, primarily the dodge and burn tools for completely changing the look of an image.


Adobe Illustrator was used for experimenting creating a magazine cover, though I used Microsoft Publisher instead as I believe it suits creating a magazine better than Illustrator does.


I used Microsoft Publisher combined with Adobe Photoshop to create my magazine and film poster. Microsoft Publisher is useful for adding text and shapes, as it has many different types which are easy to apply on top of an image.