Just like last year we used YouTube to upload both the draft and the final film to YouTube which then allowed us to put these on to our blogs. YouTube is easy to use and because I have used the website before, it was simple for our group to upload the videos and it is also easy to link these videos and put them on to our blogs. YouTube is the most popular video sharing site and used by millions of people everyday and so it is the best way for people to see your videos and pieces of work while being completely free. Also it is very popular with our target audience and so YouTube is an important way of the film trailer being seen by a large audience globally and this way it can also be shared on social media. Other online services we used included Blogger, Gmail and Facebook, all of which we used last year. I kept all of my notes and ideas together via blogger and it also helped me to monitor my own progress with evaluations and posting ideas and research from other thriller films and their trailers. I also posted my first draft of the film trailer on blogger which allowed me to get feedback from other members of the class and then use these comments to improve the film. I could also post any ideas that I had but decided not to use in the final media product. Gmail was key in sending items that were important in the creation of our products such as pictures, design ideas and planning ideas. It is accessible on phones and laptops so is accessible and always available. Facebook was used to communicate with the rest of the group as we had a group chat that allowed us to plan a schedule to film, where to film and the roles that each of us would take.
Adobe Photoshop is one piece of software that we used last year and again this year. It was used in order to make our new production company logo and also to create our ancillary tasks which were the film magazine cover and the poster. This software is quite detailed and can be complicated to use, however, having used this before I was able to do many of the basic skills which then allowed me time to practice some more advanced skills to help improve the look of my ancillary texts. It was accessible on any of the computers in the school and so was easily accessible and meant that I could work on the texts whenever I wanted to. The camera itself was a HD video recorder which allowed us to capture the footage in the best quality possible and this made the film trailer better quality. Making the film trailer quality the best we could would suit the genre as the target audience use modern technologies that have the options to have HD on and so lots of teenagers in today's world use HD whenever they can. Having the film in HD would appeal to the target audience more than if it wasn't in HD. Also the camera was small, light and wireless. This made it much easier to film in places around the school and outside of school. A disadvantage to this was that the camera had quite a short battery life and needed to be charged frequently.
Using my phone allowed me to communicate with others in my group via Facebook during the planning process of creating our film trailer. I also used my phone (YouTube and the internet) for researching about other thriller films and film trailers and the conventions they have. This was helpful as I know how to use my phone quickly and effectively and so it was easy to do the research for my own film trailer. This is also useful as I can access blogger and Gmail via my phone which are key ways of communicating.
Freeplay music was one website that was particularly useful while making our film opening. It allowed us to search for copyright free music that would be appropriate to use. We could access it form any computer and so looking for the right song did not take long. During our film trailer we use one track that is taken from Freeplay music and it was important that we got this right as music can help to set the genre of the film and the mood. As a group we had used this website before so we knew how to work so once we had found the music we wanted to use, it was quick and easy to put this into our product.
Last year we used Final Cut pro to edit our film opening however this year, due to circumstances, we had to edit on Adobe premier pro. This meant that everyone in our group was a beginner on this software and so we had to get an understanding of the basics first before we could try anything special like effects on titles. There were problems with this software and computer combination as the footage and video would often not completely render or would take a long time to load completely and so slowed the progress of us editing. Once we got used to this software though, it was relatively simple.
No comments:
Post a Comment