What technologies did you use in the research and planning.

Construction and evaluation stages?

Question 4

Research and Planning

The Weebly website has accommodated me and made it easier for me to post all my work in one place. It has different ways for you to present your work such as JPEG, images, texts, html links, documents, YouTube and others.

It also allowed me to add pages onto my blog meaning my work would be organised making it easier for me to access but also for people viewing my blog.

Research and Planning

• For my research, I used Powerpoint as it helped me present my work in and organised and easy way and it uses you to have simple designs.

• This helping me present my work in a concise way.

• I also used Slideshare which meant I could upload my work and use the HTML code to embed on my Weebly, meaning other people could see it.

• YouTube allowed me to find existing soap trailers in order for me to analyse them then use to them help me create my preliminary task.

Due to it being embedded on Weebly, it accommodated people who could watch just on the site instead of going off onto another website.

As part of my planning I used Word to do a shooting script, I used Word for all the paperwork which I then posted on Weebly.

Construction

A tripod – stabilizes the video, this meaning you have your hands free meaning you can pan from side to side and zoom, keeping it steady at the same time.

Boom mic – enhancing sound overall as the camera may not be able to pick up some sounds.

DSLR Camera – meaning you can get a good quality video which adds to the professionalism of the trailer.

Ancillary products…

• For my ancillary products, I used Adobe Photoshop to edit as well as create the products.

• As a group we made a front cover for a magazine and a billboard poster.

Magazine cover..

I used a green screen meaning I could use one colour for my background, sticking to the typical conventions of a TV Magazine.

Firstly I took the images I wanted to used and then erased the background using the eraser tool.

Construction

I used the horizontal type tool to add text to the page.

I also used a drop shadow effect, making it look more professional but also so it stood out more subtly.

By using the transform tool this helps me be able to easily rotate and move text to the shape and size that is similar to the typical style of soap magazines. I clicked edittransform rotate, so I could tilt the text to make it link with images.

I also made certain parts stand out more, for example ‘DRUG ’I did this by making the inside colour fill white and the border red. This still links with the other pieces of text but adds more attention the storyline even if the image is small and a secondary story.

Construction

I used the magic eraser and background eraser tool to erase the white background, replacing this with a blue background. This made the magazine look more professional and made both people stand out on the cover.

Construction, before and afterFirst I edited some of the images that I was going to use, I used the background eraser and quick selection tool to get a detailed edit of the characters. I used this tool to make sure all the images didn’t have any background around them. I wanted it to look as professional as possible. Here are some of the images I edited before and after.

Construction

I used a colour fill to add the blue background. This made the image stand out more and would contrast with the yellow and red text.

I then added the circle shape to add the days of the week at the side of the magazine cover. I clicked the shape tool ellipse tool which would create the circular shape I needed I then chose the colour that would be best suited and added the white border around it to make it stand out.

Construction

• I clicked on the colour picker, then went through the colours, I then selected a colour.

• I selected blue for my background front cover.

Construction

• I added secondary images and added glow around some images.

• This making them stand out, which engages the audience drawing their attention to it more.

• I also rotated images using this Edit > Transform > Rotate.

Billboard Poster

• Firstly I edited all my images using Photoshop. I have done this before by using the same tools

• I used the same tools to erase the background, I also used this for my front cover.

Construction

This was our mock billboard, before we made our final cover.

For each character we used different facial expressions to reflect part of the characters interest and persona.

I put all the images together and then used a brick wall as the

background using File > Open

Billboard For the billboard poster, I used individual images and did the same Photoshop technique for the background. I then put a brick wall in the background to make the characters stand out.I then added a channel 4 logo to tell the audience where the show will be broadcast on. I created the logo by using Times New Roman text in Photoshop, by using the text tool and typing “Oxford Road”, I added a white colour fill and made the shape be a rectangle but with rounded edges to look more of a realistic road sign.

SOUND For the theme tune of the trailer, I used Honeyblood-Bud from YouTube. I copied the url to then paste into a site which could turn the link into a mp3 document so I could add this over my trailer when editing. This made it easier to add the sound over the trailer. I wanted to have a different unique trailer so decided not to use any sound effects except for the voiceover at the end of the trailer so the audience still is familiar with a convention of soap opera. This is always at the end of soap trailers and I wanted to make a link for the audience.

PREZI

I used Prezi as it was a new format to present my work on. It was the most creative way of presenting your work.

It allowed me to present it through different paths, enabling me to move from one location to another e.g. from a piece of text to another image.

Prezi

It allowed me easily to add different frames and arrows to present my work more creatively.

Prezi has also allowed me into insert images easily by clicking the insert box.

Powerpoint

• I also used Powerpoint to present my work. It was simple and easy to use to create my presenations.

• I then had to upload it to Slideshare, making it easy for people to access it.

Evaluation

I used Weebly to display my evaluation work. I made a page for each question so it was easier to acess.

QuickTime Player • We used QuickTime player

to do a short screen recording of how I used iMovie to create my trailer for one of my evaluation questions.

• This has allowed me to easily demonstrate how I used iMovie and what I did in order to create my trailer.