Evaluation Q4:

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

For this question we will be posting various images and screen captures of the new technologies we used, including softwares and evaluating there usefulness and how they contributed to our project. We will be explaining what we used them for and the reasons why we felt they were the best for the task we chose them to do.

The equipment

Cassettes are almost obsolete in the film industry as hard disk drive has taken over; but the is a disadvantage to this as work can be lost this way and there is no hard copy like there is with a cassette tape.
an advantage of using a tape is that you will always have the original footage, some it can be part of an archive; if any work was to be lost you can always use the raw footage as you will have it all recored on tape.

Final draft AV 2.5

The Final Draft AV 2.5 screenwriting software from final draft is a screenwriting suite designed specifically for screenwriters. The software allows you to work in a two-column workflow, featuring a dedicated channel for video and another for audio. Since it is designed for screenwriters, Final Draft AV will automatically keep these columns aligned correctly when text is added or deleted from either one. This is an excellent tool for anyone writing scripts that require separate audio and video columns. We used Final draft av to write the script for our film, having the separate audio and video columns are useful as the script flows better and is easily read for us as the creators and for our actors to learn.

Storyboard Quick 5

Storyboards are graphic organisers as a series of illustrations or images displayed in a sequence for the purpose of pre- visualising a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity. Storyboard Quick 5 is a storyboarding software application for creating and editing digital storyboards. used primarily in the film and TV industry by film directors, producers, writers, it is used to produce a visual layout of media projects for communicating with crews and/or clients before commencing the main product process. This is the use we had for storyboard quick as we planned out our film and using storyboard allowed us to add and abstract scenes we felt were not necessary or fitted better.

Soundtrack Pro

Soundtrack pro is a music composing and audio editing application, it has professional instrument loops and sound effects. We used Soundtrack pro to create our sound track to accompany our film. We chose the most suitable sounds from the array to best fit each scene and give the audience the right feel.

Live Type

Live type is a programme developed to create animated title sequences for video projects. We used live type because of the variety of formats it carries we were able to create conventions in our titles, as well has having a moving background of fog; keeping in tone with the genre.

Photoshop

Photoshop is a graphics editing programme, as an image editing programme, you can use photoshop to alter images like photos, downloaded icons and scanned artwork. Altering an image includes doing such things as changing the colours within an image, modifying the size and scale of an image., or putting one picture 'within' another. Alteration also includes technical modifications such as changing the mode of image compression from one type to another, or changing the number of bits used per pixel. But, aside from altering images, Photoshop has a vast array of tools that help you "create" images from scratch. On the web, you will often need to make custom icons, buttons, lines, balls or text art. Photoshop makes all of this excessively easy and fun. We used photoshop to create our film poster, the many tools available on Photoshop allowed our group to create the type of poster we wanted with the effect we felt right for our film.

Final Cut

Final cut express is an editing application it is designed for advanced editing of digital video as well as high definition video. It has the ability to keyframe filters, motion path and opacity keyframing; as well as ripple, roll, slip, slide, and blade edits. Other features are picture in picture and split screen effects along with chroma key. Chroma key is a feature of final cut we used for our film.
Chroma keying is a technique for compositing two images or frames together in which a colour from one image is removed, revealing another image behind it. We used this technique to create our news report, we placed a green screen behind our actress as a colour it is consider to be least like skin tone, if our actress wore any green clothing she would have been replaced by the added image. For our added image we chose a spiralling world which we thought most resembled already established news reports so we thought it most appropriate.

The Softwares

Quark Express is a software that we used to create our film review, the images are the logo for Quark Express and the other is Quark in use.

Quark express is a computer application used for creating and editing complex page layouts.QuarkXPress document contains text and graphics boxes. The boxes can be reshaped, layered, and given varying levels of transparency and text alignment. In addition to the basic functionality font, alignment, spacing, and colour, the package also provides its users with professional typesetting options like kerning, curving text along a line, and ligatures. The software allows both box positioning and graphic or text positioning within a box with an accuracy of one-thousandth of an inch.
It was a very useful software to use and with previous practice with the software easy to navigate for the creation of our film review; the software allowed us to recreate the plan we had of our review, and the idea we wanted to follow the theme of our film

Prezi

Prezi is a presentation application tool it uses a single canvas; text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames. We used Prezi to present our storyboard in a different way, each scene was added to the prezi in a different way and users can zoom in and out in order to follow the story in a fun and different way.

Divshare

Divshare is a type of host were you can upload videos, photos and other files; you can host them for as long as you like and free of charge. The files can then be embed anywhere. All of our groups audio files are hosted on divshare; audio from our peer feedback and our treatment presentation with question and answer are the types of audio held on there. It is easy with them all in one place so the whole group can access them and then post them to there own blog.

Scribd

Scribd is a document sharing website, which allows users to post documents of various formats and embed them into a web page. My group posted our rough draft and final treatment, along with our prop list, review, shooting schedule, and script onto scribd. Using scribd made it easy for the group to all access the work and be able to post it on each of our blogs. It is simple to use all of the work is hosted in the same place.

Youtube

You tube is a new technology that is a free platform for exhibiting our work; we used it for posting our animatic; first draft of our film, and final film. By posting them on youtube they are easily embedded onto Blogger. Youtube also provides feedback from a wider audience as people are able to comment on the videos.

Blogger

The application Blogger is a new technology presentation tool; Blogger is the application that we used to host all of our research and planning, along with the ancillary tasks, and the evaluation.
Blogger is a very useful application and the most efficient way to present our work. The advantages of using Blogger are: Blogger caters for multimedia artefacts so our group was able to embed our film, animatic and other videos and we felt relevant to our research. Along with being able to upload images from photoshop, and google etc. It can be accessed all of the time and automatically saves our work, so there is no loss of work; it is also easy to edit using Blogger without having to re write a whole post if it were hand written. The information can be shared through Blogger as well, so my other group member could see my progress and like wise I could see theirs.