During the creation of research, planning and evaluating stages i used new media technologies to help me get the best out out my final media product. I used various pieces of software such as I-Movie, i used this when i was producing my anitial annamtic at the very begining gathering up my idea using still images and then combining my idea with others to come up with a final idea. I also used it when making my rough cut, i did this because it was easier to short my clips into the correct order and put text with each clip to describe what is actually happening. One of the main reasons in which i used I-Movie was so that i could import all of my clips which i had filmed using the video camcorders, so then i could cut them down to there correct size and get then ready to put into Final Cut ready to add transitions and other types of effects.
Secondly i used Final Cut when making my final product. This piece of software is vey new and has given me lots of oppurtunities which I-Movie cannot offer. The ways in which i use this piece of software had a big impact on my final product and also in my planning as it offers more tools such as all the complex video transistions, the dimming of sound levels and also not forgetting the basic cutting and pasting tools. So my planning for the film allowed me to be more creative by thinking of new inventive ways on how to get the best of my final short film.
After using the editing piece of software i used a piece of software called I-DVD, this was used to construct my DVD title page and introduction choosing my pictures to music to play within the intro. I also constucted the DVD by adding buttons which one off them plays the film production i have made. This piece of software has helped me so much and with out it we would have just burnt the film onto a blank disc so the overall product would have not looked proffesional at all.
During the planning stages i wanted to be more creative when producing a title for my film so i decided to use a piece of software called Live Type. This helped me a lot as i was able to be creative during the planning stages instead of using the editting software which i was using. This piece of software gave me lots of ways in which i could design my title to suit my film using interetextual references and signifiers.
I also used a piece of software called Photoshop Elements which i found very usefull in the planning stages especially when i was producing the ancillary texts as lots of the designing elements for the posters were used on this type of technology. This is a new technology which has helped keep my production consistant as the house style is the same throughout using the headlight image with the car theme at night. It provided me with many tools such as all the brush elements i was able to choose from when fading the characters faces in the poster. Also i found the layers pallet very helpfull as i could select different features of the poster at diferent time. Overall i am very pleaseed with the posters which i have created but this piece of software has played a big role into this as some of the design elements have made me construct them with such eas using different design elements.It has also helped me when i was planning out my production logos giving me lots of elements to choose from and construct one that fits the purpose and supports the type of genre my film locvates itself to.
Lastly i used garage band, i used this to help me create a soundtrack for my film towards the end, i found it very helpfull as it was very easy to use, but gave me a wide variety of sounds and tracks to choose from to help me construct my own piece. I used this in the research stages becuase i had planned to use a sad tune towards the end so i decided to look for some sad slow music, so what i did was take the research and look what types of instruments were used within this type of tune. So Garage Band was the correct piece of software to use as i selected out each instrument to give me the correct sounds to choose from.
For the whole construction of research, planning and evaluating i have done this by using Blogger which has helped me record all the the things which i have took out when in the making of my product at different stages as it has let me provide images and even videos. Also another new media technology which i have used is Scribd which has allowed me to show off documments i have created on other pieces of software such as my screen play and storyboards etc. I have also used Photo bucket which has allowed be to upload videos onto my blog, this is just like Scribd, it has been a big help as it has made the quality and construction of my blog much better.
The main new technology i have used has to be the internet as it has allowed me to record all my work on Blogger and it has been the most useful resource for example watching short films on line, reading about other new and up coming film productions but mostly the fact that when i got confused with something on Final Cut i could go look for a tutorial to help me out or go on a forum etc. Using the internet as a whole has allowed me to use specific search engines as these have been one of the main parts why the product has been constructed as this played a big role within the research and planning stages. I used resources such as wikipedia, IMBD and the BBC etc.
A piece of hardware which i used which is a new technology as we used DV tapes for the cam corders, however they are no normal DV tapes they are only compatable with digital DV tapes which make the quality of the filming more to a high standard.
I have used other types of technologies such as Youtube to look at different examples of short films and also used it to find certain types of audio e.g music. I have also used Facebook where i have put my short film onto so i can show it to my friends who are in the target audience and so i can obvioulsy gain audience feedback. Below is a screen shot of my Facebook showing the video which i have uploaded.
Overall the new technolgies which i have used have been the main reason why i have produced my production because if i wasnt able to engage with these technologies i wouldnt have been able to record any work and my production would have been useless, or maybe there would be no production all togather. As we have produced this film on no budget at all so we have had to use all the pieces of technolgies which are already available to us so from a point of view of producing i think that the overall product would be much better if we could have a higher budget, in a way we are like Warp X in the real film world but really we want to be like Working Title. This would mean that exibition and distribution would be alot more easier however we have to do most of this ourselves with what we were given.Below there is a video in which i have constructed to show what digital technologies i have used throughout the project.
you need to make sure you really home in on some examples of specific tools you used within each programme, and demonstrate what these helped you achieve (screenshots would be useful for this)
ReplyDeletedon't forget as well that you are working within the emerging tradition of digital film-making: think Warp X etc as producers, plus the new means of distribution and exhibition