EVALUATION QUESTION 4

For my preliminary task, I used a hand puppet and took pictures of it and moved it slightly after time I took one. This made it look like it was moving across the table. I then made it look like it ate a piece of bread.

Preliminary Task

We filmed our soap with a video camera borrowed from college, and one DSLR that belonged so someone in our group.

Construction

4.

We watched soap trailers from similar soaps to ours on youtube, we researched the conventions by doing this and made our soap accordingly.

Research

4.

I used BBC iPlayer to watch episodes of Eastenders, to find out the conventions of certain soaps. I also used the search engine Google to find images and posters from similar soaps, and had a look through tv magazines.

Research 2

After we had got our footage, we gave the Camera to our media teacher who was going to export the videos onto one of the computers, but due to a mix up with the cameras our footage got deleted and we had to film it again. It was a minor slip up but we managed to get the footage done again with little inconvenience to ourselves.

Saving The Video Files

Choosing a Soundtrack

Once I had chosen the song I wanted to use, I found it on youtube. I then used the site ‘www.video2mp3.net’ to convert the song into mp3 format. I then used iTunes to save the song, and imported it into my trailer.

I used photoshop to take the tape and logo from the E4 style guide. I used the magic wand tool to get rid of the surrounding area around the tape and then saved it as a JPEG file to import onto my poster.

The E4 tape and logo

I then dragged the tape into my poster and placed it where I wanted it. I did the same for the E4 logo.

Uploading to YoutubeAfter signing in to youtube, I clicked the upload button on the left of my username.I was then taken to this screen, and I clicked on ‘select files from your computer’. I found the file and proceeded to upload it.The video was then saved on my profile.

Embedding the Youtube video into my blog

To embed the video, I copy and pasted the HTML code into a new post on blogger under the ‘edit HTML’ tab.

I decided to use Microsoft Powerpoint to evaluate my work. I chose to use this because I am familiar with it and have used it to evaluate my work in the past.

I used the function to insert text boxes and copied and pasted screenshots and images to accompany the text I wrote.

Evaluation