How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation

stages?

By James Hodson

Apple•The computers I used for my construction and research, planning and evaluation stages, was the Apple iMacs and also the Apple Macbook.

•I mostly used the Macbook as I could take it home with me and do my work at home like using Final Cut Express for editing my Radio Trailer.

•Also the Apple computers were able to give us programs which are not available to Windows computers.

Final Cut Express

•I used this program for editing the different sounds and videos. Also it was very useful when I wanted to use different effects and I also found it very user friendly.

•It was mainly used for editing my radio trailer and also used to edit my film for the third question of my evaluation.

Adobe Photoshop CS4•This program I used for mainly my film poster which I experimented with to make my perfect poster for my film.

•It took some time getting used to this program but I was able to get the hang of this quite quickly as I have used this before in my AS film.

•I found this program to be very user friendly with Final Cut Express.

Equipment•The equipment I used was a Canon Legria FS307 with a professional tripod to shoot my film and also use for my ancillary tasks and also my evaluation. This was very easy to use since I have used this camera before in my AS production.

•Also I used artificial lighting in my production because in most of the indoor shots the lights in the bedrooms did not light the actresses face enough.

•Also a number of props were used like the letter and also the wine bottle, for example.

• This year I used Wordpress to publish all my pieces of work and also used it last year.

• I found this program very easy to use and also found it easy to post pictures, videos and all types media into each page.

• I also used YouTube and Vimeo to upload my film and radio trailer. I found it easier to use Vimeo rather than YouTube as it loaded the videos quicker but on YouTube you are able to load bigger files.

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