Here you can see all of the different technologies that I have used.
1. The first image is of the tripod that I used. I found this incredibly helpful in taking shots that do not look like a home-movie. They came out smooth and clear with the help from this, also the panning shot of the army officials taking away the male protagonist looked effortless with the help of the tripod.
2. The next image is of the computer I used. For my media publications I decided to use, as mentioned before, a mac book. This was because these computers have the technology on them, e.g iMovie, that enable you to easily and quickly edit movies to create an end product that is of the highest possible quality. Without the use of this computer I would not have been able to complete any of the research planning or evaluation parts of the end product. I may have had to hand write the information that I needed to keep, which would have also meant that I would not have been able to use any of the other technologies listed, blogger, google, photo shop, video studio, iMovie, and also the digital camera. The whole process would have been far more time consuming and would have most probably that I would end up with an end product that isn't of a very high quality.
3. The next image is the Blogger sign. From using Blogger I have been able to document my progress, the troubles and changes I have needed to make, and the entire process of creating a promotional package for a film. I have also learnt that looking at other peoples problems, through their blogs has helped me with my own project. In the same way I have also been able to gain inspiration from others blogs for example embedding YouTube clips. When I began using blogger I did not even know this was possible, but from looking at other blogs I found that this was a useful tool and made the entire project more animated and therefore more user friendly. Without Blogger I would have had to either hand write each post which would have meant that if I wanted to edit a post I would have had to re-do the entire text. Alternatively I would have had to type each one as a word document. This would have also been more time consuming as each post would have to be saved individually and also printed out which would have been wasteful and time consuming. It probably would have also meant that I would not be able to do as many posts and show my research, planning and evaluation stages as thoroughly as I have.
4. The next image is the 'Google' sign. I have used google from the beginning of my project. I used this to research my genre, and find websites e.g imbd.com, which are incredibly helpful in aiding the research and planning process. Google is a search engine which enables you to type in key words that you type in to find out about a certain subject. Google then takes less than a second to go through every page available on the website and prioritises each website according to relevance to the key words I typed in. This was incredibly useful in the research stage as I was able to find out a lot about the conventions of romantic movies, I was able to google reviews for movies of similar genre's which gave me far more information that I needed for my research section. Without the help of google I would have had to use books and search for references in individual books which would have been time consuming and could be completely un-useful. Google enables you to search through millions of pages that have the similar relevance as what you are looking for which ultimately leads to a better quality production and a better understanding of your target audience and the genre you are looking for.
5. The next image is of the still camera I used. This is a Nikon D50 SLR. This camera is incredibly useful, it takes high quality shots and is easy to use. From using this I was able to learn the extent of the effects of different lighting's which was very important for the end product in creating an image that suited the rest of the project. I was also able to quickly take pictures and view them on a computer. The use of a digital camera was very important when taking the pictures for my poster and magazine cover. It enabled you to instantly view the picture and know whether or not you needed to take more pictures or not. The use of the camera also does not need to develop each picture. If a different camera was used I may have had to use a dark room and develop each picture individually only to find the two shots that I really wanted to use. This would have been terribly time consuming and would have also meant that I would not know until all the developing was done whether I had the required picture or not.
6. The next image is of Corel Video Studio pro 12. This is the program that my school has on all of the computers, so I used this program to edit the interview recordings. This enabled me to cut the shots to edit any un-useful parts and to change the sequence in order for the audience watching the interviews not to get bored of watching the same person for a long period of time. Through the use of this technology I was able to quickly cut frames out of the interviews and move them around (cut and paste) which would have other wise been very difficult without another movie program. I was also able to edit the sound quality to make it louder or more clear in order for the end user to understand the speaker more easily.
7. The next image is of iMovie. Deciding to use iMovie instead of Corel Video Studio was a very good decision for me. I found iMovie so easy to use and so easy to add in effects that you never even knew were possible. I was able to learn how to change the brightness and hue of all of the shots, I was able to change sound levels to enable gun shooting sounds to be heard in the shots of the male protagonist on the front line, and I was also able to quickly and easily edit my sound track to fit with the background music, but also so that it ran smoothly. Just through playing around with the different features that iMovie comes with you learn so much and the ease of use that it has makes it incredibly easy to go back and change or to do again to other shots. All in all I learnt a lot from iMovie and I think using this programme benefited the end product of the film teaser trailer. Without the use of the iMovie programme I would not have been able to edit the film trailer as easily as I was able to do. Otherwise I would have had to use a film reel which would have had to be hand cut and pasted together, this would have been incredibly time consuming and would have required a skill which I would have had to learn before beginning the editing of the trailer.
8. The final image is of the Panasonic SDR S50 that I used to shoot the clips that make up the trailer. I found this very easy to use and was very helpful in reviewing clips before actually putting them onto the computer to edit. The flip out screen is very clear and I also found that you could take stills with the camera. Although I did not actually use any in the end product I did find that this was very useful to look back at the different sections of filming. I have found the use of the digital camcorder very useful in being able to look back at the scenes just filmed and being able to analyse whether a second third or even fouth take needs to be done immediatly. Without this the filming process may have been extended and it could have resulted in filming the same scene repeatedly on different occassions which would have caused tension among the people involved.
Another programme I used, which isnt featured in the collage above was Photoshop. I used photoshop to edit and improve the images used on the Movie Poster and Movie magazine. With photoshop I was able to learn how to improve the colourings of the picture, make it clearer, brighter, and more appealing to the eye. I learnt how to use the background eraser to move them to different landscapes or other backgrounds. Without the use of tools like this I would have strugggled to create the finish that I have now. I would not have been able to edit any of the pictures used which would have meant I would have had to take pictures which were perfect all over, which would have ben very time consuming and difficult to achieve.
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