Evaluation Question 4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Part 1

Programes used

- Photoshop

Photoshop is a programe that I used before, of which I first started using back in year 9, four years ago. I'm used to the process of using Photoshop so it wasn't difficult for me to use. All of the work that required Photoshop was done quickly with no problems at all. Here is a Photoshop tutorial that was uploaded onto Youtube. The way I used photoshop was using the blending tools perdomoninatly. It was the best way to merge the images together, as well as keeping one of the images as the main background. Another thing I used on Photosjop was the crop tool. This was used in order to crop out the background on a picture, and to then be able to use the picture on the canvas. That's final part of Photoshop that I used was the colour ranges, which was used in order to make the Storyboard, pictures and poster black and white.

Final Cut Pro:

Final Cut Pro was very difficult to come accustomed with. I didn't know how to do anything on apart apart from splicing the clips. However as time when on, I learnt the basic like how to insert credits, sounds and stuff like that. Luckily for me, basing the movie of the 50's TV show, not much stuff had to be altered in post. Therefore the basics of FCP where good enough for me and to use in order to edit the film. Here is a Final Cut Pro tutorial that was uploaded onto Youtube. The tools I used on FCP where the sound enhancment tools. This was used so I could alter the sound for it to be louder or softer, as well as adding the music required. Another tool I used in FCP was the cutting tool. This was used in order the cut and serperate clips, the most important tool of FCP. I also used to effects bar to change the scenes from colour to black and white. This was easy as you create a pre-set in the effects tool, then you can drag that pre-set onto all of the clips, and they automatically change colour. The final tool I used for FCP was the text bar which is located in the effects bar. I used this to create the title and end credits for the film. Something that is mandatory and essential for every film.