Sunday 24 March 2013

Question 6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

Websites/Blog
Before starting media as an AS I had never been near any software involving film editing, sound, font types or anything media related so coming into the AS I was nervous to say the least. The first thing I tackled was my blog. My first view of blogspot.com was frightening, it was all very new and daunting to look at, however once I got started, I found the blog to be the easiest thing to handle. What I like about the blog aspect is that it's very modern, you get a sense of community as you can share information to anyone and through cnsmedia.blogspot.com you can look at other previous AS media examples as well as your own classmates. Not only this but it's relevant to the industry as, as the world of technology is progressing more and more information is being publicised over the internet as, unlike books, this can be updated all the time to fit with the constant change that days bring.
Firstly, I started by copying and pasting pictures and using text for a blogpost. From this I progressed into converting Youtube videos onto my blog by taking the embed HTML code from the site and converting it onto my blog. Progressing further I experimented with different websites to strengthen my blog posts and make them more interesting to look at. From this I used sites such as: scribd.com, prezi.com, screenr.com, photopeach.com, beeclip.com, dafont.com etc. 




The two sites that I have use the most within the making of my thriller opening are: prezi and scribd. Prezi is a really intricate and exciting way of making a power point presentation much more diverse. It allows you to be free with creativity making video, images and text all combine together with different paths of looking at them. I find prezi quite simple and effective to work with as by making different levels within the prezi (for example starting with one picture, zooming in to a section and we have text, zooming further out and we are introduced to a different image etc.) you make a simple presentation more pleasurable to watch so to speak. 
The editing process of prezi
With the use of scribd.com I was able to embed powerpoint presentations and word documents in particular to my blog to show multimedia uses within one blogpost. So for example in one blogpost I could use a word document, with a few images and text, powerpoint and a prezi to combine all together the strengthen my multimedia aspect. 


However, during the evaluation section of my thriller project I started to tire of using the same websites for my blogpost's and wanted to stretch my knowledge further and challenge myself with different software's. This is when I experimented with the websites: photopeach.com, beeclip.com, dafont.com and screenr.com. Photopeach.com was an aspect completely new to me as it was a website that made a video that you could edit with text and image, similar to edit like my thriller opening however a lot more simplistic. Beeclip.com was a updated/progressed/different version of a powerpoint, I used this to show the aspects of the character of Edward and this came as a useful presentation technique. I used dafont.com to research the fonts that I was going to use within the titles and opening title sequence for the thriller opening and this was a easy and simple website that I would use again as it has multiple choices on different styles of writing. Finally, screenr.com was a website that allowed you to add a voice over to a section of your screen. I elaborated this by making a prezi and then adding a voice over to expand the bullet points that I had on the prezi and allowing more in depth analysis (micro analysis). 

Shooting/Editing Thriller

Research Resources


1 comment:

  1. You use a range of technologies well here, Sophie (rather appropriately, considering the question) to explore some of the ways in which technology has enhanced the production and creative process. On the last two points of your prezi you begin to reflect upon some of the ways in which media technology is empowering, and I'm pleased to see you taking this approach.

    Strong post.

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