1. Question 6
What have you learned about technologies from the process
of constructing this product?
2. Stages of production…
In order to make my media product I went through 3 stages:
- Planning and research
- Construction
- Evaluation
Within this presentation I am going to talk about the different technologies I used when constructing my
media product in each of the stages and what I have learned from using them.
3.
4. Technologies During Planning and Research
During our research and planning we used a variety of technologies to get an insight in to our
chosen genre (Zombie). For example we used IDMB and ‘The Numbers.com’ to find out
statistics and film information on our genre to help show that our film had an audience and to
find out past numbers from past films e.g. ticket sales. It also helped us find out who our
target audience was which we finally decided was 16-35 year old males and females in middle
class. We also used BBFC to establish what age rating our film should be. All of these websites
were easy to use and clear to understand so this made researching very easy to do!
We also used websites such asYouTube in order to look at other film openings from our genre.
This helped us find generic conventions in film openings and therefore helped make our film
opening look better an d attract the audience more.YouTube was easy to use as I have used
this before but the school filtering system stopped us accessing some videos so this was
frustrating as we couldn’t watch some of the videos that we wanted to.
In all of our research and planning we recorded our findings on blogger.We did this in a range
of ways .e.g. blog posts, Prezi's or essays on Microsoft word. I found blogger easy to use and I
think it makes my work look neat and professional, although for some reason blogger
wouldn’t always let me put photos on my blog so I haven’t got as many photos as t what id
would’ve liked to have.
5. Technologies Used During Construction
At the very start of making my film opening I had a lot to learn. I had to learn how to use the cameras and
tripods and the editing software (Movie Studio Platinum and Photoshop). I found the camera very hard to
get used to as there was so many different buttons and I kept pressing the wrong ones, although I had used
the camera in my preliminary task it still took a while for me to get used to it.The editing software was easy
to use once I got taught, I found that with a bit of practice I could edit easily and effectively.
Movie Studio Platinum-This is the software we used to edit our film opening.We did things such as fade
in/outs, added sound and sound effects and video effects to add filters to the film, we also added in slow
motion scenes. I ended up having to do most of the editing alone so this meant I got quite good at it in the
end.
Photoshop-We used Photoshop for many things, for example we used it to make our studio logo, our titles
and also the overlay for the news report scene. At first I found Photoshop very hard to use as it was new to
me. It also lost a lot of our text and titles and we couldn’t get them back so we had to spend more time
making these which was very frustrating. After I got used to using it, it was easy and I think it looks very
effective in my film opening.
8. Technologies Used During Evaluation
During the evaluation of my film opening I used a variety of websites foe example Prezi, Powtoon, Slide share
and blogger. I used all of these for the evaluation questions and each of them helps make the evaluations
look professional and stylish. I also usedYouTube to find videos to put in my evaluation e.g. target audience
interviews, and this helped make my evaluations look and read better. I then put my evaluation questions
onto my blog, but sometimes used slide share to do this. Slide share was very difficult to do as the school
filtering system wouldn’t let slide share work so I had to upload all of my work at home which I found very
frustrating and time consuming. From adding to my blog it made it look effective and blogger has a
comment section so this meant I could receive comments from my teacher on how to improve my work and
to find out what grade I got. I like this feature as it meant I could make my work the highest standard
possible.
9. Lighting and sound….
In order to make my film opening effective I changed the lighting and added sound.To do this I had to use
different technologies.
Lighting-To make the lighting effective I used artificial lights to create high key lighting and I think this
contrasted well with the low key lighting.The lights were easy and simple to set up and use and I am glad
we used them!
Sound-There is a lot of non diegetic sound used in my film opening, most of which is music or sound
effects.To get the music and sound effects I used a website called freefx.com.This website was very easy
to use and had a range of music and sound effects and I'm glad I found this website as I believe without the
non diegetic sound my film opening wouldn’t be as good. I also added in a voice over and to do this I had to
use a voice recorder and microphone.This was easy to use however the first time we used it we forgot to
turn it on so we had to go back and record the voice over again! Nevertheless it sounds good and adds to
the enigma in my film opening.
11. Overall……
In conclusion, I used a variety of technologies in the process of
constructing my film opening, for example;YouTube, blogger, Prezi,
Powtoon, slide share, movie studio platinum, photoshop, cameras,
tripods etc……
From planning and researching, constructing and evaluating my
film opening I have used new technologies and learnt all about
them, some I found very temperamental but some were easy to use
but everything has helped me make my film opening and I think it
looks professional and very effective.
