Sunday, 3 April 2011

4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages.





It was very helpful during our research and planning stage to use our blog to communicate with each other.  We found it was very effective to make a record of our research such as the conventions of a soap trailer and our questionnaire results. 
Before A2 we had not used Final Cut Pro, therefore we had to familiarise ourselves with it before we began.  We found that it was fairly simple to use and that the software was capable of anything that we required from it, like effects and transitions. 
Sound track pro was useful for additional sound effects  such as the sound of a heartbeat and breathing to emphasise the life threatening nature of one scene, we had not used it before A2 but as it was similar to Final Cut Pro in set up it was not too difficult to understand once we had grasped the workings of Final Cut Pro.
The ancillary tasks; the TV listings magazine and the poster were created in Microsoft Publisher, software that we are all familiar with from AS and from school work prior to that, hence we had no problem using it to construct these texts.

To film our trailer we used a canon camcorder which we found simple to use however the battery life meant that we were limited in the time we could film out doors.

The Sony digital camera we used for the main front cover image on the TV listings magazine did not give us the quality of image we had wanted, therefore we used other cameras such as a canon digital camera for the poster and other images.

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