Script for Q6
Planning & Research:
BLOGGER
Blogger is a website that I had never used before. It’s associated with Google and allows people to publish blog posts on their own personal profile. This is where I have been able to upload all my findings, evidence and progress of the planning, filming and editing and evaluation of the media product that I have created .Blogger is hugely important regarding my media studies work as it contains my whole foundation portfolio. Every piece of work I completed would be uploaded in chronological order publicly for anyone to see. It is extremely useful and I have learnt the ability of using embed codes to stream technological advanced pieces of work e.g.from YouTube or Prezi and the ability to use Blogger in general.I previously have never used blogger before but I have learnt that it is another simplistic way to contact and communicate with others from around the globe. Other websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and YouTube are connected to blogger and made it very easy to make my blog interactive so I was able to include images and videos of my progress. Completing my work online has also shown me how the technology and media convergence is growing. I have really benefited from using this website as it is easily accessible, self-explanatory and easy to use, I would most certainly use Blogger again.
GOOGLE DRIVE
I used Google Drive to receive all my lesson information to help me with my research and work. Then I stored all my research, photos and videos that I could possibly use in my work on Blogger or on my main brief. Google Drive was an excellent storage site due to having the ability to also share all this information at the same time with the colleagues in my group. This made it a lot easier to complete work and share ideas, allowing us all to edit at the same time. Google also offers to create questionnaires through Google Forms, a unique and easy way to create forms of any sort. This was useful as allowed me to create questionnaires quickly to then be able send them via email to anyone I wanted or to published on social media, giving us a large variety of responses back relatively fast. Furthermore, I also used Google Slides, another aspect Google offers. I used Google Slides to produce a pitch for our main brief Blackout with with my team. Both these extras allowed me to gain a better picture of my main brief and a better main target audience.
YouTube & Netflix
Netflix and YouTube was a vital source of research. I used these sources to mainly watch the opening scenes of horror films. However I also used them to watch other genres to look at credits and opening layouts, as well as tutorial videos and sound sources from YouTube. The problems I faced with this is that they didn't always have the films I would of liked to analyse. However, this was easily adaptable due to the millions of films to be an alternative. So for these textual analysis I spotted the codes and conventions and the micro elements they conveyed. I then posted some of the textual analysis' on blogger; The Woman In Black, Scream and Blade.
Filming:
CAMERA
The camera I used to film both my mini brief and main brief was the Canon DLSR. For experience, I have used this camera before for my year 11 GCSE Media studies work. However, I still faced the same problems which were; the manual focus and manual zoom. Despite having these problems they were not hard to overcome and in some ways helped with filming. This is because it made us think and double check our shots which resulted in some very intriguing and different shots, mostly in great quality. Due to filming in an elevator, there were many dark and shadowed spaces, but the camera was great as it managed to still catch high quality shots.
Editing:
WE VIDEO
We Video was the software I used to edit my footage. I have never used We Video to edit before, however I have used similar software such as imovie and Adobe Premium. These software's showed similar qualities therefore I could transfer my knowledge, allowing me to have a head start in knowing how to edit. The storyboard mode was even easier which made it more simple to edit clips, adding effects, animations and sounds. I also learnt that you can share the media project to my whole group, then allowing us to all edit separately but using the same media. It was also better than the other softwares I have previously used because I could access the editing software at home or anywhere, just as long as I had a compatible device with Google Chrome, making it a lot easier to work on the main brief.
YOUTUBE
We had to upload a large proportion of our final work to YouTube. From this we had to embed a code to be able to convert and post on our blogs. This made it quick and simple to transfer material. Also, YouTube provided a large variety of sound effects. This was also useful as had button to convert to mp3 making it easy to upload on our main brief and evaluation questions. I learnt that YouTube is very useful and will certainly be using it again and it did not phase me any problems.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Adobe photoshop was a post filming software I used on my own for our main brief. I was familiar and used to this software because I used it throughout year 10 & 11 media, therefore this editing stage did not cause me any problems. With a lot work put into the main brief I was able to finalise editing a video clip for our brief. This was to make the eyes of our antagonist completely black, for our horror effect. I also used it to remove backgrounds for our main brief credits. Photoshop will definitely be used again as i'm experienced in the software and generates great results when used properly.
FONTSPACE
Fontspace was a website that had many pre-generated font styles that are free to download. No problems were faced. It was easy and quick to find different fonts. I just spent time looking for a particular font I wanted so that it suited our main brief. After saving the image, all I did was use photoshop to remove the background leaving just the credits to then use in my main brief.
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