Evaluation Activity 4

How did you use Media technologies in the construction ad research, planning and evaluation stages?

we have taken pictures of us using some of the equipment involved in the making of our trailer. it is important that we know how to use the equipment so that filming can run smoothly. this would be very important in a high budget film as it need to be well planned out and every second filming is costing money and time that would have been planned out and needed to be kept to.

 This is Charlotte with one of the tripods and camera that was used while filming. Charlotte learnt how to adjust the tripod which was important in order to achieve the shot types that we wanted. when we were filming in the park it was important that the camera remained at the same height even though we moved the position of it. This is important in order to keep the continuity of our trailer.

This is me with the tripod and camera. i learnt how to pause clips while filming and learnt how to upload the footage to the right format for the editing software we used. we came across some problems at first uploading the clips onto our editing software but overcame this by changing the format of the clips.

 

having the tripods were very important in ensuring we have smooth and steady shots. This made our trailer look more professional. There were times that we did not use the tripod but this is because we wanted a hand held camera effect to create an unsettled feel in our trailer.

We used adobe photoshop to make our film poster and magazine cover. At first we had difficulty with adjusting the size of an image but we soon learnt how to do it, we need to free transform the image and we were then able to adjust the size without loosing focus. we also had problems with inserting the text but keeping the background surrounding it. howver we over came this by learning how to select different layers and then able to delete the ones that we did not want. this then brought the text to the front but kept the background picture in the background. We feel this was a really good software for creating the magazine and poster as it allowed us to blend the different layers together and it also allowed us to select the exact colours we wanted to represent our trailer.

 We used adobe movie maker for all the editing in our film. this worked really well and we were familiar with this software. this allowed us to adjust the sound which was important for creating more dramatic effect towards the end of our trailer as we allowed the sound to gradually build and increase with the pace of the trailer. we were also able to layer our sound which is something that cant be done with some other software that we though about using, such as 'windows movie maker' if we were not able to layer our sound then we could not include our voice over and the sound of the car moving starting and people talking at the same time as the music. this would have effected the flow of our trailer as the music would have to keep stopping, furthermore this would effect the building of tension and this is an inportant convention of action trailers. adoboe movie maker also allowed us to include fade to blacks which made our trailer more interesting and this conforms to other action trailer sthta we looked at. The fade to blacks help to build tension and make the clips flow better. we used a wide variety of locations and without the fade to blacks the changes in shots and location would have ment the trailer would not flow well.

 

We used youtube as a way of showing our target audience the trailer. it is easy to access and this made it easy to advertise to our audience. we also made it public for people to be able to write their own comments about our film and this is a brilliant way of getting audience feed back as a wide variety of ages use youtube and therefore we could get comments from all different types of people. youtubes main target audience is a siular target audience that we were basing our film at and therefore this is a brilliant way of advertising it.

 

 

We also used twitter and facebook as a way of communicating with our target audience. we would post tweets and facebook posts to update people what we were doing and would upload small clips of filming. this allowed the audience to build suspence and excitment over our film and this is very important in capturing an interest frm our target audience. Furthermore we were able to get ther opinion on the footage that we had done and this allowed us to develop or change anything that they felt was not interesting or succesful.