"How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? "
Podcast Script
Research Stage (Kyle)
While researching, I used Apple Macs and YouTube to improve
my knowledge of conventions within horror trailers. I watched the trailers and
studied the way that they used conventions, such as low angle shots to
establish power, which I eventually used in my trailer. Before creating my
trailer, I created a music video to familiarise myself with the Canon camera
and the iMovie app, both of which would be used in the filming and eventual
editing of my trailer. I used the website Blogger as a resource to record all
of this research as this would ensure all my information would be in one place.
I used Google Chrome to access any necessary online research, as Google is the
search engine that I am most familiar with.
Planning Stage (Zhong): For my planning I started with a
storyboard and created a draft story on paper, and then further developed it in
I-Movie. In I-Movie it allowed us to model each frame, for example how long the
shot was going to be and allowed us to add text to explain what that shot was
going to be. I have planned a few different locations to film in at the start I
was considering to record at. The first area that I came up with was central
park, but I realised that the location was unsuitable as it was not dense
enough in trees to accurately represent a forest. Furthermore, the second area
I have looked at is the tower grounds, this was suitable for my film because my
film is mainly set in a forest. Due to the fact that it takes us time to walk
to tower grounds I have mostly planned Saturdays to go filming as we don’t have
much time to get there during the school day.
Construction Stage (Jamie)
The Camera that was used when shooting the film was a Canon
camera. This was an expensive camera, and therefore this led to a decent
quality of image, which helps when trying to make a decent horror trailer, or
any trailer for that matter. When it came to the editing of the film, I used I-movie
for Mac OS, which gave me several tools in which to enhance my film. Firstly, I
incorporated different filters in order to improve the look of certain shots.
For example, there is a brief action shot that when editing, looked too bright
for the type of trailer I am creating, which is horror. So I decided to use the
filters in order to make the shot more appropriate, eventually choosing the sci-fi
filter, which worked in my trailer. Another tool I used was the text tool,
which was really useful in creating elements of the trailer that are considered
conventions, such as the title of the movie at the end and the cast list. This
tool proved to really useful as I could change the font from a comic style to
one that more appropriately suits my genre of film. Overall the progress I made
in construction was made possible by my research on trailer conventions and
their features, as well as my planning by learning how to effectively use
I-movie.
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