Here is our audience feedback and views on the final film:
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Friday, 20 April 2012
Final Finished Film of 'Killing Between the Lines' World Premiere!
Here is our audience feedback and views on the final film:
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Lewis Brookes: Evaluation Question One
1) In what ways does the media product use,
develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/brookiebuzzin/1-in-what-ways-does-the-media-prezi-12630331
(Unfortunatly the presentation I uploaded to this site dosen't allow you to listen to see the effects and my audio of the essay.)
Continuity was observed thoroughly by us both to ensure actions were matched and overall increase the fluidity of the
film. After viewing many projects from other colleges on Youtube we noticed
films that failed in some aspects of continuity and thus having a negative
impact on the film and viewing pleasure; therefore motivating us to ensure our
film didn’t fail on the same aspect.
Using the HD camera we were able to take
care with continuity by making sure it was in the same format. However, we came across the difficulty that
part of the filming was in a standard definition format rather than a high
definition format therefore we had to re-film the entire scene. We came across
complications such as keeping the camera level and steady for over the shoulder shots. Also match on action and reverse shot, but careful planning
and consideration allowed us to find the appropriate camera positions which
obeyed the 180 degree rule with these two shots.
Within the editing phase we came across other
difficulties, such as the match on action not entirely matching in different
shots. We overcame this by use of either cross-cutting or editing that allowed
for continuity to be in place. An example is in the film, the character Andrew
kneels down but in another shot he doesn’t kneel down far enough, this was
rectified by simple editing.
We also had to take notice of sound
continuity, we hadn’t paid as clear attention to begin with and there was often
‘crackling’ and background noises which interfered with the continuity.
However, through editing we managed to solve this problem, replacing bad audio
with audio that worked. Also, there was originally noticeable changes in audio
i.e. soundtrack. This was easily solved by using filters such as fades in and out,
this made the transition much more smooth and wasn’t too obvious. Also we cut different shots in time with the beat of the audio in the office scene to make the transition smooth.
There were many ideas of a film originally,
but we made a joint decision to choose a thriller. However, we were still left
with a plot and whether we were going to choose a hybrid of a thriller or a
sub-genre of thriller. We analysed many films and decided psychological
thriller would be best, therefore we researched what made a psychological what
it is. The dark mysterious character was influenced by characters used in other
films i.e. Jon Doe from Se7en and Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. I was
interested to create a character similar to Patrick Bateman after watching
American Psycho and seeing his characteristics. However, it was difficult to
replicate a character such as him in five minutes and keep it original.
We used elements such as Andrew not knowing
everything that was going on which is a common convention of psychological
thrillers and there were other uses such as crime and murder. However, to make
it unique we gave Andrew a characteristic of OCD and that he was being drugged
by his wife all along and that it was in fact she who was committing the
murders. We used tension which is associated with thrillers to give it an
exciting edge and the narrative was quite dark, but we used it minimally to
ensure the audience didn’t guess the twist in the end.
We deliberately subverted expectations of
the film; the film was built up to imply that Andrew was the dominant character
and the killer; however we had a twist where Maria was in fact the killer. We also gave a more bouncy relaxed soundtrack, when Andrew is at work to play with the genre s code and intentionally lower some tension however we did this to show Andrew's fustration as the music got louder and quicker, with close-ups of his anger. Then we quickly built back up to the tension with the second killing straight after to thrill and shock the audience.
We can apply Richard Dyer’s theory of
entertainment and Utopia to our film. Dyer explained that if your life is not
ideal then a film can take you away from this and place you temporarily in
‘Utopia’. ‘Intensity’ is a feature of this theory, in our film we use a build
of tension and action i.e. the killings and fast editing that creates an
intense atmosphere. If the audience feel that there life is boring/mundane,
watching our film will temporarily allow them to feel excitement. Initially
the audience may feel contempt towards the character of Andrew and would think
he is perhaps a sociopath, however once they find out the truth of his
character they may feel sympathy towards him.
Also the audience will get pleasure by scopophilia meaning 'love of looking' by Laura Mulvey's pleasure and narrative theory. Our audience will be interested to discover someone else's life from there perspective, in particular Andrew's. To achieve this we created voice over narration to give the audience a secret glimpse of what goes off in his mind and allows them to interact within
his life. We are confident we have achieved this with the different types of mise-en-scene presented such as dark clouds and clothing, eerie music and dialogue, a variation of shots with moody lighting and the shocking suspense at the end of the film.
Though we feel we have an original idea, it
would be false to suggest there were no influences from other films. The
voiceover for Andrew was influenced by the character of Alex from The Clockwork
Orange; we used ideas/thoughts of Andrew that were comparative to the character
of Alex. There were techniques i.e. camera techniques that were likely to have
been subconsciously influenced from many other films like Hide and Seek (2005) with close-ups being the key to a psychological thriller. The writing in the diary was
influenced by the opening credits of the Se7en, we felt that the jittery
text effects and writing made an effective title sequence and so used elements
from this film. However despite of these challenging conventions we have developed our own original ideas and used these to create a gripping genre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY
Presentation
http://www.slideshare.net/brookiebuzzin/1-in-what-ways-does-the-media-prezi-12630331
Using the HD camera we were able to take
care with continuity by making sure it was in the same format. However, we came across the difficulty that
part of the filming was in a standard definition format rather than a high
definition format therefore we had to re-film the entire scene. We came across
complications such as keeping the camera level and steady for over the shoulder shots. Also match on action and reverse shot, but careful planning
and consideration allowed us to find the appropriate camera positions which
obeyed the 180 degree rule with these two shots.
We also had to take notice of sound
continuity, we hadn’t paid as clear attention to begin with and there was often
‘crackling’ and background noises which interfered with the continuity.
However, through editing we managed to solve this problem, replacing bad audio
with audio that worked. Also, there was originally noticeable changes in audio
i.e. soundtrack. This was easily solved by using filters such as fades in and out,
this made the transition much more smooth and wasn’t too obvious. Also we cut different shots in time with the beat of the audio in the office scene to make the transition smooth.
There were many ideas of a film originally,
but we made a joint decision to choose a thriller. However, we were still left
with a plot and whether we were going to choose a hybrid of a thriller or a
sub-genre of thriller. We analysed many films and decided psychological
thriller would be best, therefore we researched what made a psychological what
it is. The dark mysterious character was influenced by characters used in other
films i.e. Jon Doe from Se7en and Patrick Bateman from American Psycho. I was
interested to create a character similar to Patrick Bateman after watching
American Psycho and seeing his characteristics. However, it was difficult to
replicate a character such as him in five minutes and keep it original.
Also the audience will get pleasure by scopophilia meaning 'love of looking' by Laura Mulvey's pleasure and narrative theory. Our audience will be interested to discover someone else's life from there perspective, in particular Andrew's. To achieve this we created voice over narration to give the audience a secret glimpse of what goes off in his mind and allows them to interact within
his life. We are confident we have achieved this with the different types of mise-en-scene presented such as dark clouds and clothing, eerie music and dialogue, a variation of shots with moody lighting and the shocking suspense at the end of the film.
Though we feel we have an original idea, it
would be false to suggest there were no influences from other films. The
voiceover for Andrew was influenced by the character of Alex from The Clockwork
Orange; we used ideas/thoughts of Andrew that were comparative to the character
of Alex. There were techniques i.e. camera techniques that were likely to have
been subconsciously influenced from many other films like Hide and Seek (2005) with close-ups being the key to a psychological thriller. The writing in the diary was
influenced by the opening credits of the Se7en, we felt that the jittery
text effects and writing made an effective title sequence and so used elements
from this film. However despite of these challenging conventions we have developed our own original ideas and used these to create a gripping genre.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEZK7mJoPLY
Lewis Brookes: Evaluation Question Two
VIDEO
2. How effective is the combination of your main product and the ancillary texts?
Different ancillary texts should take time and
great detail to produce as these are vital to promote our film in many ways.
After having a written idea for our film and what we wanted to represent and
convey to our audience made this an important media concept.
After analysing these different posters, I used my experience from ones I have seen in the past we used our creativity and unique ideas to create our own.
We believe the
poster we created greatly complements the film and is effective in a dark and
sinister way. This gives a strong contribution to the films overall promotion.
The main character Andrew Francis is sat writing in his diary giving dark
sinister look. This suggests to the audience he is the main character with a
dark, mysterious personality. With Andrew being placed within the centre of the
poster it suggests that his character needs to be the main focus for the
audience, playing a large part in the film. The bubble effect around Andrew connotes his
unpleasant thoughts and emotions when he is writing in the diary.
We chose the
background colour of the poster as a simple and effective dark black. This
suggests the genre of our film to be a thriller that is tense dark and fill of
suspense. We made the title big and bold so the audience quickly knows what the
films called. We made the word ‘Killing’ the colour red for two reasons:
11) Because the colour red suggests blood,
violence and death. And…
2 2) The word ‘Killing’ is a pun on the
word writing, showing a twist to the audience on what is happening within the
storyline.
Our poster was created to catch the audience’s attention by giving them little glimpses of excitement without giving the storyline away and I believe our poster does this by creating dark mystery.
We then started to create the radio trailer which was fun and easy to make using Garage band. We wanted our radio trailer much like a film trailer to have important moments within our film to give the audience a little taster, without giving the story away. To achieve this we gave some voice-over narration from
the production and many sound effects like the punching and the
gunshot. This will let the audience know someone has been killed but creates mystery as to who. Also we added new eerie music giving the audience a sense that the film will be a tense thriller.
I also voiced-over additional information that wasn’t
given in the film poster such the release date of the film and what various
other media concepts said about our film such as The Guardian giving our film
5*. This would have hopefully targeted a wider audience to see our film to a
different class of people who may not be interested in psychological thrillers.
Looking at the three different types of media we created shows our diverse
creativity to target a wider audience. We were dedicated to make the public see
our film through these advertising techniques. Finally both ancillary texts
compliment the film perfectly by giving the audience the genre and intriguing
points of the production, without relieving too much of the storyline. Lewis Brookes: Evaluation Question Three
3) What have you learnt from your audience feedback?
The main principle of a films success is based on the
audiences feedback. When we were creating our film we had a good idea on how we
wanted our audience to feel such as suspense and emotions we wanted to betray.
We knew that for our target audience to tell others about a film they had to
enjoy it therefore we were providing tense music and intense sound effects like
the gunshot, when hoping for good audience feedback. 
I produced a questionnaire, which I asked various people to complete. This allowed both of us to gain feedback on
whether our film would be interesting enough, for many people to see it. We
were then able to customise our film around this feedback such as the different
genres of film they were interested in and there opinion on the certificate
they thought the film would be.http://www.blogger.com/blogger.gblogID=8751492390644401569#editor/target=post;postID=1356088383301738487
We also undertook research by filming other people, by asking further and detailed questions therefore giving more detailed feedback. Such as what they thought of our idea and what films are if any, similar to our own. People compared our film to saw as this has really tense music and keeps you in suspense. We wanted to create this in our own.
By using all of this gathered information we used it to make our film. Because our footage was under the limit of five minutes we asked people how they thought we could make it longer and interesting. They said they would like to see Andrew Francis at work to see how he would act in a different environment. After the first post-production of our film we thought we needed to ask people in our class, friends and family about the first draft. People fairly gave us critical feedback on parts they thought we could improve such as clearer titles, a voice-over to allow the audience to interact more with Andrew and more tense and powerful sound-effects.
These
changes were urgently made afterwards. We then posted this to different medias
like FaceBook (www.facebook.com) and YouTube (www.youtube.com) and gained much feedback from various people including our target audience. There were parts in our film which did confuse our audience such as cutting from the killing to Andrew’s house but this was intended as flash forwards for the audience to interpret what was happening, to fit the pieces together. They also said that the second killing was perhaps too dark but we wanted this mise-en-scene as it’s a critical part in the film.
By getting further feedback from others amongst audiences
including family and friends, classmates and our teacher, this received much
praise for our efforts believing it would be a success and we had no negative
feedback on further changes.The point of asking for feedback is to improve the film and it can be easy to ignore. We could have been ignorant and not listened to the comments from our audience believing it would succeed. Because I have been involved with everything in the film (editing, planning and filming I had to take into account things woudn’t always go smoothly. Therefore you must be self critical and say ‘we need to change that!’ as the audience knows what they want.
Lewis Brookes: Evaluation Question Four
ESSAY and DIAGRAM
4) How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
a) How did digital technology enable you to develop creatively and are there examples of the technology obstructing or preventing your creativity?
I used several new media technologies such as, a iMac apple computer, the internet, YouTube, a DVD player, Facebook, blogger, script making software Celtx, a digital camera, final cut express, a voice recorder, free copyright music CD’s, a flash camera, radio making software, and Photoshop. This software helped me to develop my creativity in my research, planning, construction and evaluation stages of my project. I did come across some problems with this digital technology but I eventually overcame these issues allowing me to develop my initiative and understanding of these products further.
Firstly, I undertook much research to give me inspiration for my groups film, however to help me accomplish this I needed assistance from media software much like, the iMac PC. This helped me to purse not only my research but my creativity within all aspects of this project. This included multi-media programs on the PC like Celtx, YouTube, Facebook, Photoshop and the newest editing software Final Cut Express. This inspired me to develop my creativity from the start, as it allowed me to use many of the different programs that were already available on the PC. The iMac has also made me more aware of the wide variety of media software you can use to help produce something excellent. Furthermore the PC has learnt me different ways of using a computer such as copying and pasting links
under the edit toolbar and taking screenshots by holding down the apple, shift and ‘4’ key. Also it helped us with the construction for our project. We tried to bring more creativity by creating our own music however after little success on this and the internet, we inserted free copyright music CD’s into the iMac computer. An obstacle to this was limited help from the secondary sources and the CD’s would not always be accessible in the PC. So to overcome this we had to stay consistent in our search.
The iMac PC helped me with my research greatly by allowing me to surf the web online with a much unheard internet provider known to me, named Safari. This increased by knowledge of other media companies instead of using an obvious choice, say, internet explorer. Having used a diverse number of multi-media search
engines like ‘Google’ and ‘Yahoo!’ the internet allowed me to help me get creative through the different ideas and genres I discovered upon it for our film. I would say this hindered our creativity slightly with sometimes blocked web addresses and a slow web connection. To overcome this obstruction I had to stay consistent and patient with my search. When we decided the genre of our movie the internet allowed me to access a variety of sites to research different examples of what a psychological thriller should look like E.G.: camera shots and music, giving me imagination for our own.
www.youtube.com
One of the sites that greatly assisted me with this was YouTube. (www.youtube.com) The website has many videos on the same genre which gave me creativity and countless ideas by analyzing the mise-en-scene, lighting, diagetic and non diagetic sound for example of different short thrillers. YouTube also gave me creative ideas on how the credits of a film should be set out; how tense opening title sequences should look and how our theatrical poster should be represented to our audience. The one prevention I had with YouTube was that when I wanted to embed a video to show the footage easier, it may sometimes have been disabled or faulty. So to overcome this I notified the provider of the clip to allow me to use the link or if I wasn’t allowed I could at least use the URL link.
Digital technology of a Blue-ray DVD player let me continue my own research further by looking at my own films. This gave me more inspiration and creativity by watching different aspects of a thriller. The DVD player allowed me to take notes on interesting features within the film by playing in slow motion, pausing and re-winding to important, influential scenes. The DVD ‘Black Swan’ also gave me knowledge of the reasoning behind different non-diagetic music and shots through audio commentary.
Lastly, the social networking website helped me to find out what the public would like a psychological thriller to show to our audience. For example, the music, a twist in the plot, how the characters should be represented. This gave me creativity to create our characters personalities to really make them connect with our target audience. This universal website gave me great creativity from a wide variety of people from age, sex, race and religion etc. A problem I came across from this piece of media is perhaps the views from people on the site ranged that much, it was hard to please and accommodate everyone’s input.
www.blogger.com
I had much technology and software to help me with the planning stage of our media production. The multi-media website blogger (www.blogger.com) helped me to organize my work and help our film come to life. It allowed me to input multi-media products such as images, videos and audio to make my ideas more creative and exciting. Blogger gave me opportunities to share my creativity with other groups so we could give each other inspiration. However to all the positives this format gave me there were a few issues with the site. One was the fact that recently the sites layout and design had changed making me adjust very quickly to using the technology. But this improved my creativity on using a different layout. Second to this was that the Blog would sometimes not let me publish or save by posts, both of these hindrances caused delays. Therefore I had to stay consistent with my hard work and patience throughout. Another problem was that the images and videos I published would not display in the correct places on the page, therefore making posts difficult to edit. This obstructed my creativity to what I wanted to display on the blog, so to overcome this I would sometimes describe my ideas in more detail. In all, this media software allowed me to express my creativity thoroughly through different media formats, fonts, and bright colours.
To help me create and plan our film further we used the script making software Celtx. I got creative with this technology by using a clearly displayed layout (with titles, type of speech, dialogue and stage directions) to easily show our actors how they were betraying their characters. It gave me several creative thoughts on the effective ways our characters could connect with our audience through a dramatic script. To help me get more creative this media technology simply allowed me to create a tense plot by allowing me to express my ideas with no boundaries. This software also helped us to create a tense radio trailer for the construction of our movie by using a similar format. Therefore Celtx helped us greatly to plan our creative ideas within different aspects of the media. This didn’t prevent my creativity it only expanded it.
To start the construction of our film we used a digital camera to capture all the action in HD. We filmed various shots enabling us to get creative by establishing
medium, long, and many close-ups to bring our creativity forward. A few hindrances we had were the size and heaviness of the camera. We found it difficult to maneuver the filming equipment to each location. Also some shots we produced were not very professional such as panning, due to the difficulty of steadily moving the camera. We eventually got through this with practice. Another aspect we found tricky to get right was to get the white balance on the camera clear to start filming. We had to redo many shots due to the lens showing different shades of colour. The real lens on the lens would often keep spinning rather than stay linear to keep our shots focused therefore we had to make sure we kept our camera movement steady. One of the biggest problems we had to overcome was making sure our locations had enough light in the rooms to make sure our shots weren’t too dark. We had to spend much time re-filming some scenes and borrowed some lighting equipment to overcome this obstacle. In all, the digital camera allowed us much creativity by exploring different shots and brought our film to life.
After filming we used editing software of the newest version, Final Cut Express. This allowed me to get creative through basically, breaking our footage apart and placing the pieces back together again to make our film look the very best to our audience. This media technology also gave us the opportunity to get creative by speeding up the footage to make the shots tenser and cross cutting the shots to give the viewer more excitement and a sense of insecurity. This software gave me the chance to express my creativity with different features within this program, such as adding coloured filters and sound effects to create a strong empowering film. The only obstacle we had is that we accidently shot some footage in DV (digital video) so this wouldn’t display in the software. Therefore we had to re-film the footage. This broadened my creativity with editing resources by learning new skills and how to use many techniques within the software.
We also used digital sound recording equipment (zoom recorder) to produce the voice over narration speech throughout our film. This gave me creativity by using new media technology for the first time and to try something different. I learnt how to use this software and how to connect with our audience through the timing and tone of Andrews’s speech. One obstruction we did have was that sometimes the quality of the sound was sometimes not clear so we had to swap the equipment.
After taking photos with a Canon flash camera, Photoshop was then a great influence for my creativity by developing two theatrical film posters. This allowed me to use many different editing features on these photos such as, bold text, retouch techniques, light effects, and colour effects to draw make the final product draw instant attention. It gave me creativity to use programs I knew very little and developed my knowledge of media software.
Another product of media technology that helped me get creative with my work was the zoom recorder to help create our radio trailer and Garageband. This gave me creativity by creating a tense voice-over and placing sound effects and key moments from the film to create an appealing trailer.
Lastly social networking websites like YouTube and Facebook has helped me to get feedback on the evaluation of my work. This allowed the viewer to give me positive and negative feedback on my work and therefore use this for my own creativity to make changes. These two accessible websites meant it would be easy to spread the release of the film by mouth-to-mouth communication and by sending friends a quick link. YouTube website gave me a better idea of the films success with a comparison between the like and dislike button. Also an advantage by using YouTube is that this gave me wider feedback than from only the people I know on Facebook. I was also able to use the multi-media website blogger to show peoples views by creatively posting videos, links and screenshots.
In conclusion all the new media technology available to me allowed me to express my creativity in many ways from using an iMac PC to research different films to a digital HD camera to construct our own. Software such as Celtx and Photoshop has given me the opportunity to discover different aspects in how to create media also. The obstacles placed in front of me did prevent parts of our project to be put on hold, or encourage more hard work and patience but I seem to have overcome this with help from my team mate. In all, I feel as though this technology has brought out the creativity and ideas within me to develop a project to the best of my ability.
4) How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
a) How did digital technology enable you to develop creatively and are there examples of the technology obstructing or preventing your creativity?
I used several new media technologies such as, a iMac apple computer, the internet, YouTube, a DVD player, Facebook, blogger, script making software Celtx, a digital camera, final cut express, a voice recorder, free copyright music CD’s, a flash camera, radio making software, and Photoshop. This software helped me to develop my creativity in my research, planning, construction and evaluation stages of my project. I did come across some problems with this digital technology but I eventually overcame these issues allowing me to develop my initiative and understanding of these products further.
under the edit toolbar and taking screenshots by holding down the apple, shift and ‘4’ key. Also it helped us with the construction for our project. We tried to bring more creativity by creating our own music however after little success on this and the internet, we inserted free copyright music CD’s into the iMac computer. An obstacle to this was limited help from the secondary sources and the CD’s would not always be accessible in the PC. So to overcome this we had to stay consistent in our search.
engines like ‘Google’ and ‘Yahoo!’ the internet allowed me to help me get creative through the different ideas and genres I discovered upon it for our film. I would say this hindered our creativity slightly with sometimes blocked web addresses and a slow web connection. To overcome this obstruction I had to stay consistent and patient with my search. When we decided the genre of our movie the internet allowed me to access a variety of sites to research different examples of what a psychological thriller should look like E.G.: camera shots and music, giving me imagination for our own.www.youtube.com
One of the sites that greatly assisted me with this was YouTube. (www.youtube.com) The website has many videos on the same genre which gave me creativity and countless ideas by analyzing the mise-en-scene, lighting, diagetic and non diagetic sound for example of different short thrillers. YouTube also gave me creative ideas on how the credits of a film should be set out; how tense opening title sequences should look and how our theatrical poster should be represented to our audience. The one prevention I had with YouTube was that when I wanted to embed a video to show the footage easier, it may sometimes have been disabled or faulty. So to overcome this I notified the provider of the clip to allow me to use the link or if I wasn’t allowed I could at least use the URL link.Digital technology of a Blue-ray DVD player let me continue my own research further by looking at my own films. This gave me more inspiration and creativity by watching different aspects of a thriller. The DVD player allowed me to take notes on interesting features within the film by playing in slow motion, pausing and re-winding to important, influential scenes. The DVD ‘Black Swan’ also gave me knowledge of the reasoning behind different non-diagetic music and shots through audio commentary.
www.blogger.com
To start the construction of our film we used a digital camera to capture all the action in HD. We filmed various shots enabling us to get creative by establishing
medium, long, and many close-ups to bring our creativity forward. A few hindrances we had were the size and heaviness of the camera. We found it difficult to maneuver the filming equipment to each location. Also some shots we produced were not very professional such as panning, due to the difficulty of steadily moving the camera. We eventually got through this with practice. Another aspect we found tricky to get right was to get the white balance on the camera clear to start filming. We had to redo many shots due to the lens showing different shades of colour. The real lens on the lens would often keep spinning rather than stay linear to keep our shots focused therefore we had to make sure we kept our camera movement steady. One of the biggest problems we had to overcome was making sure our locations had enough light in the rooms to make sure our shots weren’t too dark. We had to spend much time re-filming some scenes and borrowed some lighting equipment to overcome this obstacle. In all, the digital camera allowed us much creativity by exploring different shots and brought our film to life.
After filming we used editing software of the newest version, Final Cut Express. This allowed me to get creative through basically, breaking our footage apart and placing the pieces back together again to make our film look the very best to our audience. This media technology also gave us the opportunity to get creative by speeding up the footage to make the shots tenser and cross cutting the shots to give the viewer more excitement and a sense of insecurity. This software gave me the chance to express my creativity with different features within this program, such as adding coloured filters and sound effects to create a strong empowering film. The only obstacle we had is that we accidently shot some footage in DV (digital video) so this wouldn’t display in the software. Therefore we had to re-film the footage. This broadened my creativity with editing resources by learning new skills and how to use many techniques within the software.
We also used digital sound recording equipment (zoom recorder) to produce the voice over narration speech throughout our film. This gave me creativity by using new media technology for the first time and to try something different. I learnt how to use this software and how to connect with our audience through the timing and tone of Andrews’s speech. One obstruction we did have was that sometimes the quality of the sound was sometimes not clear so we had to swap the equipment.
Another product of media technology that helped me get creative with my work was the zoom recorder to help create our radio trailer and Garageband. This gave me creativity by creating a tense voice-over and placing sound effects and key moments from the film to create an appealing trailer.
In conclusion all the new media technology available to me allowed me to express my creativity in many ways from using an iMac PC to research different films to a digital HD camera to construct our own. Software such as Celtx and Photoshop has given me the opportunity to discover different aspects in how to create media also. The obstacles placed in front of me did prevent parts of our project to be put on hold, or encourage more hard work and patience but I seem to have overcome this with help from my team mate. In all, I feel as though this technology has brought out the creativity and ideas within me to develop a project to the best of my ability.
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