How did you use media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Throughout these stages of developing my media texts I
used a number of types of technology, these included Television, Digital SLR
Camera, Photoshop, IMovie. Technology has been one of the most important part
of produces this project. It has allowed us to be able to improve are Trailer
in many ways and also create a magazine cover and a poster to an effective and
eye catching way. Technology has helped us to anchor images to the text in turn
meaning we can effectively aim are media texts at our target audience. YouTube was also used as an important site to
upload our trailer. Facebook was also used to upload our trailer to; these are
great sites as they allowed us to receive audience feedback the media texts.
When
producing these media texts I needed to do a lot research before hand to
understand the most effective way of filming a trailer. The Internet was a huge
resource for information. I used the Internet to view other trailers and clips
from movies to give me a greater understand of the codes and conventions of our
trailer. Without the internet and YouTube clips I would have struggled to know
what needs to be involved in our media trailer, and how to make it a successful
trailer which appeals to our target audience.
When
making our trailer there were aspects which I found challenging such as the use
of software to edit our trailer but other aspects which I found a lot more
second nature. For example the camera was very simple to use. The camera was
touch screen, which made it a lot easier to move through videos and track down
the right clip from the many on the SD card.
The stand, which we used, was a very simple but effective tool. It
allowed us to film shots from a steady angle and improves picture quality
compared to if you were using the camera free hand.
When
filming we used the Nikon D3100. This is a very good camera to use for what we
wanted to do as it had all the important technological aspects to it such as
touch screen, fast shutter speed and many others. Also we were familiar with
this camera as we had used it before for our practice trailer Big Fat Sweaty Coppers.
We didn’t use the camera
only for filming our media trailers. It was used to take photos for our magazines and posters. We did this by
organizing a photo shoot which took place in various places inside and outside
of school. We managed to get some very
effective photos for what we were looking to portray. In our front covers and posters. For my
magazine front cover I wanted to have a strong image on the front to attract
the audience. There is three pictures of Jeremy razzell, (the main protagonist
in the trailer) he is holding a gun in one of the photos, this emphasizes that
the genre is action/ thriller and lets the audience into a taste of what the
movie is about and how much action is in the movie without viewing the trailer.
But I had to make sure not give too much away from the magazine. The poster is
expresses different things compared to the magazine. I have used a gun wheel
and added a screen shot from the trailer into each bullet holder. I believe
this Is a good design for a poster as it not only looks eye catching and
interesting it makes the decoder want to take an interest in the film as it
gets the decoder imaging what the storyline is about.
When
constructing my magazine cover and poster I decided to use Photoshop rather
than the recommended Corel Draw. This is because I have more experience with
using Photoshop and it is a lot simpler to use as importing images into the
software is a lot easier, adding text to images in an attempt to anchor images
to the text is a lot easier and finally, the editing of images and enhancement
of images is much more effective in Photoshop.
Blogger is the website we used to display all
our work, I found this a very helpful site to use as it kept all your work organized
and available to be looked at by anyone. This made it easy for my teacher to
mark and evaluate my work. It also allowed other students to give feedback on
our work for example our film trailers. The
website is a very modern website which is easy to use and to set up. All you
need is a email address and password and the majority of people used there
school email which made this very simple.