Evaluation question 4 script

*Notes -  I've been having issues with my PC over the past week and have been unable to record the response for question 4. I am very sorry and if can record at a later date will do so but until then have uploaded the script*

Evaluation question 4 script

In this video I will be talking about the new media technologies and equipment I have used during the research, planning, construction and evaluation of this project. During this I will describe briefly what each thing is, both the physical hardware and software and how it has helped me to produce what I have. I will also conclude what I think about all of the media equipment and how I feel its effected my product both positively and negatively. I will also briefly explain what web 2.0 is as its relevant to my overall task.

First of all I will be starting off with physical media equipment that has aided me in creating my product. starting with the cameras we used, both being the Sony handy cam and the Nikon DSLR.

The reason we decided to use two different  cameras was down to the quality of the footage both cameras could produce as well as the overall ability to shoot what we wanted too.

When it comes down to quality the obviously choice is the DSLR because of its function to shoot in its highest quality automatically and to play on a high quality directly off the camera onto an editing program without any quality changes needing to be made to the footage. The lenses we had for the camera also made getting some shots we wanted to get much easier and of a higher quality than that of the Hany cam. This camera is defiantly the choice for quality shots however when it comes down to fast paced action shots like tracking during chasing shots the Sony handy cam has to take the win. This is because of how light and compact the camera is as well as how it’s held comparted to the DSLR being much bulkier and fragile. The handy cam also fixes to the tripod very nicely making running shots easy to shoot. Speaking of these types of shots we also used a tripod for a variety of different shots both still and moving. This is due to some of my background filming knowledge jerry rigging the tripod into a makeshift steady cam for running shots.

When recording audio we tried using the built in audio recording in the cameras however a lot of it wasn’t very clear and had to be re-recorded on a handheld recording device. This was very helpful because it helped us to easily and professionally produce high quality audio that could then be edited directly on top of our clips.

We also used two different PC systems during the creation of our products both windows and Mac. Windows was used for things like photoshop to create or advisement products like our posters and magazine covers, Whereas the Mac being much faster and superior at editing  being used to produce and cut together the trailer itself. Working on different machines was also very efficient, getting serval things done at once as a team and individually.

It’s also relevant here to quickly mention that a variety of USB sticks portable hard drives and SD cards were used in the transfer of audio and footage from different machines and equipment.

Next onto the programs and software used.

First I’ll start off with Premiere pro the editing software used to produce the edits for the trailer and to create the final cut of the movie trailer. This program after a few mins of getting used too is very easy to navigate and use and was very good for professionally producing a trailer of industry standards. We also used another Adobe program, After effects to produce the title cards and transitions that were then edited into the trailer through Premiere Pro.

The last Adobe Program we used was Photoshop and this was used to all the image manipulation and photo editing we needed to do for the poster and magazine. Both of these products were produced inside photoshop using the variously tools to produce a high quality product and exported as a JPEG image. Photoshop is defiantly the most superior image editing software and its with that that helped me to produce industry standard products.

Da font a website database of fonts was also used when collecting fonts to use on both the magazine cover and movie poster and was installed temporarily to use in photoshop with a semi-permanent program called Font viewer.

During the research programs such as Word and PowerPoint were both used to produce documents and slideshows for  things like prop lists, risk assessments and write ups for the story and plot during the movies planning stages. These programs alongside of SlideShare an PowerPoint uploading side for sharing documents, Flipsnack a PDF sharing site, and both Prezi and Emaze both online presentation websites were also used during the evaluation stages to produce responses for the questions in a smart looking and professional design.

YouTube was used when researching for other horror trailers as well as gaining assets such as copyright free music and sounds to use in our trailer. YouTube is also what we used to upload some of our media such as our draft and final trailer, and a few of our media questions such as this one now.

(Some programs were used online such as YouTube converter  to download some of the free music fast and effectively to use in our trailer.)

Google forms was used to source information for creating our trailer through creating a questionnaire for our audiences. This was chosen over survey monkey because linking to my google account made it much fast and assessable for gaining information or making changes where needed. Blogger is another google ran site that has been used throughout every stage of the project to document and upload all of the word produced from start to finish right up to the end of the course.

In conclusion a variety of software and hardware have been used throughout every step whilst creating our products, and it is thanks to these media technologies that I have been able to produce such professional industry standard products. Everything mentioned in the video has in one way or another benefitted the production, planning , research and evaluation in one way or another and although none of them are perfect they have all helped towards producing products that I’m happy and proud of.

Thank you for watching and listing this has been my response for my Media evaluation Question 4