1. Evaluation Question 4
How did you use media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
2. • An Apple Mac was probably the most important piece of
media technology I had to use. This is because all of the
websites that I also used would take place on here,
along with iMovie, which only apple macs had. Therefore
being able to navigate around was important in order to
speed up time and produce good work.
3. • I used blogger to upload all of my posts. As my
coursework gets viewed on blogger, it is crucial to
upload new posts and make improvements on a daily
basis. Being able to understand how blogger works is
important because as well as just producing text, you
can upload pictures and videos, as well as creating
audience input posts such as a poll.
4. • iMovie was used to edit my filming. It is a relatively easy
program to use, which made it easier to edit. Due to the
numerous amounts of functions that are found in iMovie,
doing the preliminary filming was very helpful as it
allowed me to practise editing first, before I went straight
in to edit my actual film.
5. • YouTube was used to upload my videos that are part of
my coursework, to then link it with blogger. Doing this
allows the quality to improve, as the quality of the videos
are lowered if you upload it straight from blogger. I used
YouTube to download ambience for my film. As well as
this, I used it to carry out some research, such as for
deconstructing other short films and viewing tutorials.
6. • Prezi was a program I used frequently, as I like the way
that it displays my work. I was able to create paths
between each piece of text/picture in my Prezi
presentations to allow easy navigation for the viewer.
The viewer also has the option to navigate around freely,
so they can look where they would like to.
7. • Slideshare is a good program to use to present
PowerPoint's. It allows PowerPoint presentations to be
uploaded to, in my case, blogger. Some of the research
which I carried out involved slideshare presentations, so
this was a good program to use due to the fact that
many other people use it.
8. I used Adobe Photoshop to create my ancillaries. For my
Year 12 coursework I used this program to produce my
music magazine covers, therefore I could confidently create
my ancillaries. This is because I know all the functions
within the program, so this allowed me to add lots of effects
that would make my front cover and magazine review look
more like the horror genre.
9. A digital camera similar to this one was used to film my short
film. It had a high quality resolution which was perfect for
producing pieces of video. I captured my film in lots of short
clips, then imported them into iMovie to bring them all
together, and delete the clips which I wasn’t happy with.
10. The title of my film was written in a font which I downloaded
from a website called dafont.com. This allowed me to
explore many different fonts which all relate to the horror
genre, which Microsoft word and Photoshop don’t have.
Therefore I made ‘Vengeance’ to look like a suitable horror
looking title, from the font I installed.
