Throughout the course of this project there has been a great deal of technology used in order to research and plan and even in the evaluation stages and of course the actual making of the product. First of all research and planning, perhaps the most obvious means of research was the internet this provided a great pool of resources for myself and James to pull on we were able to find alot of good examples of the “metal” related media and so hence able to base our product around these that we found. However at times we did not always find the internet the easiest thing to use, the genre we had chosen to do is not one of the most popular genres in today’s society and so at times it made it a little bit difficult to try and find some of these obscure albums and adverts for us to have a look at. In the end we did find a selection of album covers and album back covers and discs on the internet, however for the adverts we sought to photocopy them from a magazine this made it easier for us in a way as we knew they were genre specific but at the same time it proved that the internet cannot always be the easiest technology to navigate hence why in certain cases it was easier to just use the photocopier. As with last year’s project all of our research and planning was posted on the blog using blogger, the good thing about using blogger is that once me and James were following each other’s blogs it made it very easy for us to quickly flick onto the others persons blog and consult their research or for us to post something then the other would be able to see it instantly in this sense blogger was a great help to see what the other partner was doing. In relation to the creation of the ancillary products the main credit must be given to my partner who came along greatly in the use of Photoshop and so it lead to clear discussions about what we wanted then we would go away together to Photoshop and make the products, in particular James found a tutorial explaining to him how to create lightening on Photoshop this became the background of our advert and something which added a really good effect to our piece. An advantage of using Photoshop was that by the time James had shown me the basics it became very easy to replicate the pages of the Digi-Pack we were able to copy the layers of the texts and the glow effect from one project to another ensuring overall that there was a level of consistency among the pages making it look more professional. As for the video we mainly used adobe premier pro, for the majority of the project this worked well, both me and James had experience from the previous year so it did not take us long to begin learning new tricks on the system. Toward the end of the project I began to look into adobe after effects to create a fire or explosion effect. At first this proved a challenge after viewing several tutorials I began to think it impossible however eventually we found a tutorial that was doable on the version of after effects we were using, after a while I had the hang of putting the fire onto the video and after several go’s at it no longer needed the tutorial to guide me through and by the time me and James had come to decide that we wanted an explosion at the end I was more than prepared to create that explosion and even teach myself a few thing by playing around with the software I even managed to make the explosion turn green which I was really proud of. As for the filming of the project me and James used cameras and tripods however as we were filming on a short deadline, due to unfortunate events in the project, we decided to use three cameras and triple the footage we got, neither me or James had worked this many cameras at once and so it was an experience to do so and we definitely learned how much more of an advantage using more than one camera can be. In terms of the evaluation there is the obvious use of blogger to post my written evaluation, but there is the evaluation in front of our peers and also the evaluative interview with our teacher finally the audio commentary being recorded by use of my phone recording system and instead of premier using Windows Movie Maker. Overall I would say without a doubt my knowledge and understanding on media technology has increased once again this year by both help of experience, the help of my partner who taught me all about Photoshop and the use of internet tutorials to explain some of the more complicated software.
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