Evaluation task 4

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EVALUATION TASK 4 ADYN POLLOCK

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EVALUATION TASK 4ADYN POLLOCK

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RESEARCH AND PLANNINGYouTube

For my research and planning I mainly used YouTube to research film trailers from a similar genre to mine. This was very helpful as I could easily look at an array of film trailers and look at codes and conventions of the trailers and then apply it to my own trailer. Due to web 2.0 people can post film trailers for the world to see, it made the whole process so much easier as I could do it literally at a click of a button! I also used YouTube to research music to try and find the perfect soundtrack for my trailer, I even played songs over my trailer to see if any fit.

The Internet

Although this sounds fairly obvious but it did a great deal of help when researching and planning my media products, mostly the ancillary tasks. It obviously helped me with my trailer as I could access YouTube through it. But for my ancillary tasks I could use google images to research magazine covers and film posters to again look for codes and conventions of the tasks and apply it to my own tasks to make them as realistic as possible.

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RESEARCH AND PLANNINGExam Time

Exam time was the best programme I came across that creates mind maps. It was very easy to use and I could make the mind maps as big or small as I wanted. I used this in my planning as I could write down my initial ideas for themes and basic storylines for my film trailer based on what I had already researched. I then referred to this when making a final storyline so I kept to conventions of my genre.

Facebook, Texting etc.

These were the best tools to use when trying to organise my actors and see if they are free. I could always access them on the go so it was relatively easy to work out a date when everyone was free. I could also run by what shots I wanted by my actors so we can go the ideal predetermined place to be as time effective as possible. The best way was to make a group chat so I could let everyone know at the same time what the original plan was and also what I wanted them to do, they could then talk to each other and let all of us know when we were free. This was the best way to plan in respect of the actors themselves!

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MAKING THE TRAILERiMovie

I used iMovie when editing my film trailer once I had finished filming it. This was fairly new to me this year as I was on my own so I had to edit it mostly by myself. This media technology took a while to get used to but with some help from teachers and YouTube I managed to use it independently towards the end and managed to use it quite effectively by successfully adding in sound effects and soundtracks (which we didn’t do last year)

Logic Pro X (and equipment)

To try and give myself a bit of and edge I decided to try and create my own soundtrack for part of my film trailer. I did this at the beginning of the trailer where there is a voiceover. This was the time where it almost had a horror feel to it and suspense needs to be built so I tried to reflect that. I was quite new to this programme before so it took some time to learn how to use oscillators etc. But once I knew how to effectively use the programme it gave me complete freedom to create the sound that I wanted to make which could make the music for the trailer fit as well, or even better than a song off of sound cloud.

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MAKING THE TRAILEREquipment

In my A2 coursework I used much more hardware equipment than I did in AS. Firstly the quality of the camera that I used was increased to create a crisper shot and also change the focusing to make it look more professional. The camera I used was a Canon 700D, compared to the standard school cameras it was better tenfold. This time I used a tripod whereas in AS I didn’t, this enabled me to create still establishing shots to set the scene better. It also meant that I could move more smoothly in some shots (For example the movement in the church scene). Again I used the x grip but as I had used it before I could create freehand shots with a lot less camera shake so I could record moving action shots which would appear better on screen.

Sound Cloud

For my trailer I had to add in music for the last part of the trailer so I turned to sound cloud as it provides a lot of copyright free music made by amateur musicians. After a lot of searching I finally found what I was looking for and made it fit my trailer well to create a more upbeat, action-y feel to it.

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ANCILLARY TASKSPhotoshop

Photoshop is the main software that I used when editing my ancillary tasks, I had never used this software before A2 so it took quite a while to get used to it and I needed help from classmates and teachers but once I understood how to use it and used it pretty much independently. This gave me much more freedom to create the ideal film poster and magazine cover, I could tailor it to look how I wanted it to look and also similar to some real life posters and magazine covers. Overall once I kind of understood how to use the programme it was great when making the ancillary tasks, and I will definitely use this programme again if I need to do something similar in the future!

Equpment

Again for my ancillary tasks I used the canon 700D as this could both record and take stills really well with the picture being really clear. I actually had to take a picture for my magazine cover but for my film poster I used a screenshot from my trailer as it would make it link together quite well. Especially as the shot was used in the beginning and the end of the trailer so it would make the whole package stick out even more.

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EVALUATIONPresentation software (Prezi, Slideshare and blogger)

Prezi is a good way to present my evaluations, I had previously used this in my AS coursework but I was a little rushed so I didn’t get to use it to its full potential. Now I have had a bit more time I could play about with it a little bit and get a nicer looking presentation which can be easily followed. It also allowed me to create sub topics within areas relatively easily. Slideshare was also good to use as both PowerPoint and Prezi spiced up my blog a little bit as it would get really boring just seeing loads of text, and I used both these programmes throughout my A2 coursework in all stages. The slides are separated so you can go through topics with clear division so you know what I am talking about.

Blogger is where I put all of my progress, it makes it so it is all in one place so I can look through my past work and it makes it easy to reference. It is pretty useful to make the blog posts in various different ways but the programme itself can be a pain quite a lot of the time, especially when adding pictures to my posts as I can only do it at home!

But overall these software programmes are very good in varying the presentation of my A2 course and over time have learnt how to deal with it while simultaneously making it look more professional.