Transcript Evaluation Question 4

Qu.4: How did you use new media
technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation
stages?
Ryan Jones
Web 2.0 describes World Wide Web sites that
use technology beyond the static pages of earlier
Web sites. The term was coined in 1999 by Darcy
DiNucci and was popularized by Tim O'Reilly at
the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late
2004.
Although Web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World
Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical
specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the
way Web pages are made and used.
A Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and
collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as
creators of user-generated content in a virtual
community, in contrast to Web sites where people are
limited to the passive viewing ofcontent. Examples of
Web 2.0 include social networking
sites, blogs, wikis, folksonomies, video
sharing sites, hosted services, Web applications,
and mashups
Digital electronics, or digital
(electronic) circuits,
represent signals by discrete
bands of analogy levels, rather
than by a continuous range. All
levels within a band represent
the same signal state. Relatively
small changes to the analog
signal levels due
to manufacturing
tolerance, signal
attenuation or parasitic
noise do not leave the discrete
envelope, and as a result are
ignored by signal state sensing
circuitry.
During the research and planning stage of this task I used a range of websites
so I could increase my understanding and knowledge of the crime genre
(Mainly British Crime). The first website that I started to look at was IMDB.
Internet Movie Database (IMDB) is an online database of information related
to films, television programs and video games, taking in actors, production
crew, fictional characters, biographies, plot summaries and trivia. Actors and
crew can post their own résumé and upload photos of themselves for a yearly
fee. Users can also view over 6,000 movies and television shows from CBS,
Sony and various independent film makers. This was a very useful website
when it came to actually looking at the films I was interested in and looking at
trailers, poster and more.
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a charitable organisation established
by Royal Charter to:
Encourage the development of the arts of film, television and the moving
image throughout the United Kingdom, to promote their use as a record
of contemporary life and manners, to promote education about film,
television and the moving image generally, and their impact on society,
to promote access to and appreciation of the widest possible range of
British and world cinema and to establish, care for and develop
collections reflecting the moving image history and heritage of the United
Kingdom. This website gave me a bit more detail in to how the films
where made and when and it also gives you detail knowledge about the
actors and director which lets me look to see if they have done any work
in anymore crime films.
British Film Institute: http://www.bfi.org.uk
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/
These are links which you click on
to find out more about the person.
When I had to do the trailer analysis and look at how different films like
mine did there trailers the main website which I used was YouTube.
YouTube had all the British Crime film trailers on it so it made it perfect
when it came to interacting with the trailers and pulling them apart
looking at different aspects of them. Also as YouTube is a 2.0 website
and the trailers were all uploaded on the site, it became a very useful
way to promote you films because about 400,000,000 videos are viewed
per day.
Another website which I used to help with the
detailed research of films within my genre
was box office mojo and Box Office Mojo is a
website that tracks box office revenue in a
systematic, algorithmic way. It gives you
detail about the characters and the money that
was made from the film. Also you can look at
the trailers and it also compares the film your
looking at to films that are similar.
Box Office Mojo:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com
YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com
When it came to researching different magazines so that I knew how to lay out my
magazine cover and so that I knew what magazine my film would fit into I found that
the magazines official websites were actually the best to look at. There are many
different film magazine which I could have looked at but I didn’t have time to look at
all off them so the main ones which I looked at was Empire, Sight and Sound and Little
White Lies.
On the Empire magazine website they
talked about the film and what its like then
they rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 stars and
then there is a key showing what the stars
mean.
Empire is a British film magazine
published monthly by Bauer Consumer
Media. From the first issue in July 1989, the
magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney
and published by Emap. Bauer purchased
Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is
the biggest selling film magazine in the
United Kingdom and is also published in
the United States, Australia, Turkey,
Russia, and Portugal. Empire organises the
annual Empire Awards which were
sponsored by Sony Ericsson, and from 2009
sponsored by Jameson.[2] The awards are
voted for by readers of the magazine.
Empire Magazine: http://www.empireonline.com
The picture above shows the gender and the
age of the people that read empire and this
really helped me when it came to picking a
magazine to put my film in. I really liked the
way that empire promotes films but it’s a big
mainstream magazine and my film has more
of a independent feel to it so I wont be using
empire as my magazine.
“Sight & Sound” is a British film magazine, published
monthly by the British Film Institute. It was first
published in 1932, before being taken over by the BFI in
1934. For the majority of its history, “Sight & Sound”
has been published as a quarterly magazine, except for
a brief spell as a monthly magazine in the 1950s and
from the 1990s onwards. “Sight & Sound” is marketed
as a high-brow, consumer magazine.
Sight and sound don’t actually have there own proper
website, instead they are part of the BFI (British Film
Institute) website.
We are going to use Sight and Sound magazine to
promote our film as we feel it looks more at the director
and the people making the film rather then just looking at
the main actors starring in the film.
This is the price of
the magazine and
if you live in the
UK you get it
cheaper which I
think is really good
and also it isn't that
much money for 12
months.
Little White Lies is a bi-monthly, British
independent movie magazine that features
writing, illustration and photography
related to cinema. It is published by
London-based creative agency The Church
of London who also publish Huck
Magazine.
The little white lies website is
very easy and basic but this isn't
always a bad thing because it is
very simple to use and everyone
who wants to use it can use it.
Also you can see in the bottom
right hand corner that they use six
different web 2.0 sites (Facebook,
Instagram etc.)
It is a small independent magazine and we
felt that it wasn’t big enough to promote
our film therefore we didn’t go with this
magazine when it came to promoting our
film.
Production Stage
We used a DSLR camera to film our shots, using a digital
camera was very useful as it allowed us to easily and
quickly upload the footage from the camera onto the
computer and this helped us get on with our work right
away. Along with the camera we also used a rig, slider,
tripod and track when we went out filming. These helped
us to get effective and exciting shots from interesting
angles that we wanted which I think improved our work
loads.
To gather sound effect for the edit I used YouTube and free
SFX. By downloading a few I could then choose which
would sound best in the trailer. YouTube was good for this
as it had a wide range of effects. The copyrighted effects I
was less inclined to use as there was more hassle to their
download, but luckily YouTube had many effects that had
not been copyrighted.
To edit our shots and create our trailer we used the editing
software Adobe Premier Pro. This software allowed us to
cut shots, change the colouring and contrast of the image,
add in sound effects and soundtracks, and add in special
effects such as Fade to White.
Evaluation Stage
For evaluation question 1 we recorded us one at a time all speaking
about our use of mise-en-scene, narrative conventions, and filming,
editing, sound and titles in our trailer. And my part was to talk
about the sound and titles within our final piece of work. We used a
recording device and a SD card, so we could upload our
commentary to the computer and then use adobe premiere to editing
it all together. This was helpful because we had a short clip which
we could use to help us when we needed it because its us talking
about the main parts of out trailer and how they work.
For questions 2, 3 and 4 I used Microsoft
PowerPoint. This software was very useful as it
is very quick and easy to use, it is also very easy
to upload and share PowerPoints with other
people/websites and then for question 1 I used
word which is a nice simple way of doing a big
piece of writing.