G324 Advanced Portfolio

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

-Discuss your use of the Blogger

Blogger was the perfect blog website for me to use. Nothing was hard to use or understand, and the layout was very simple you use. By using Blogger, I was able to meet the criteria set out by the course and the lecturer. Finally Blogger was the best website for my Research and for doing my Evaluation.

Evaluation Question 4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Part 3

Limitations of Technology:

The limitations for the technology was that I have never used any of these pieces of equipment before. There was a learning curve required in order to be able to use them. Another limitation was that we have to digitalise the recordings from the cassette onto a DV tape, then onto the Mac's and FCP. This process took ages to do, and if I used a a plain Sony handycam and a SD card, the process would had been a lot quicker.

A final limitation was trying to get the equipment. Many a time where I go ask the technician, he either wasn't there or the equipment was already in use. This meant that I had to constantly change the production plan, and this ultimately left me with less actors then I could had had.

Evaluation Question 4 - How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Part 2

Prezi featuring the Technology I used:

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.

Evaluation Question 3 - What have you learned from your audience feedback? Part 2

My view on the feedback that the audience have given me.