Evaluation Part 3: How did you use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

Evaluation Part 3

In my research and planning stages I used various media technologies.  The first of which was Blogger, which was used to upload all my work. Being that Blogger is free to use it's not expected to be incredibly easy to use, but something that I tried to do were just not possible, or unclear as to how to do it. I wanted to simple make all the images from 1 label to show on the same page, but it won't let you have more than 8 to a page, making navigating my blog harder.Overall I found Blogger very hard to use, but when you get to learn how to get around the things that you can't do in browser it becomes a lot simpler ( such as making a custom banner). 

YouTube was also used, both for research and to upload the focus group screening. Youtube was very simple to watch and upload, the only problem was that you had to sign in to see some videos that were age restricted such as the Evil Dead trailer. IMDB.com was useful in finding various actor's names and dates that were required for referencing in my research and planning stages. IMDB was very simple and there was literally nothing complicated about it at all.

In the construction phase of my trailer I also used various other media programs. The main program being Adobe Premiere Pro. Premiere Pro is used in some professional film companies to edit movies  due to its versatility. Premiere Pro was used to edit the clips that we shot and to add sounds and intertitles. In this program we were able to crop the shots to suitable time lengths for our action horror trailer. The intertitles were actually made in Adobe After Effects, then exported to Premiere Pro, where we put them in sequence with the rest of our shots. The sound effects that we used we took from a site called freesounds.com which contains copyright free downloads of various different music tracks and sound effects.

To finish off, I used Garage Band on the college's iMac to create the soundtrack. It allowed me to use a mixer to plug in my guitar and record real time to a drum loop.

In the evaluation stage of creating the trailer we used a HD camera to film the focus group, and the file was then transferred to a mac through the SD card reader and uploaded to YouTube. YouTube was also used to screen all of the groups final trailers. Flickr was used to evaluate both my magazine cover and my poster. I found Flickr to be very simple and was impressed at how good the annotations look and how they appear when you hover over various tagged areas of the image.