How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
How to use Final Cut Pro
For the creation of our film work we used Final Cut Pro to edit the clips. For example this video will tell you how to use different filters and overlays to make the clips appear different to suit the setting. you can add colour correction tools and filters such as cold steel to make a lighter scene appear darker and more eerie. This especially helps us in the creation of our horror because keeping our film darker is essential to create a creepy atmosphere throughout. If we do not make use of these features, our film is likely to appear less like a horror and more like a basic thriller or murder mystery as all of the scariness is gone.
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How To Use Weebly
Within this video we explain how Weebly should be used to create a website like we have using this website creator. There are soo many customisation options for the creation of your very own site. The tools here are simple to use and just require you to drag, click or type in the information you wish to record. However if you want to have a more in depth description on how to use these functions then this video will help.
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How To Use Photoshop
Photoshop is a program that allows its users to manipulate and edit images to the users liking. They can do this by adding certain effects and using certain tools that can make the image appear much better than it did before depending on the users intentions. First of all you will need to edit the page size using its width and height tools to adjust it into sizes such as A3. You will need to bare in mind when making this decision that you keep in mind the size of the assets you will be using. For example if you upload a small image when compared to the page size, it will need to remain small to retain its resolution. This is because if you try to change the size of the image, it will become stretched which will reduce its resolution to a blurry mess. To avoid this it is best to use vector images. This is because a vector image is designed to retain its resolution no matter what size you change it to. \
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Within Photoshop you can import many different images using its ability to add them into layers. This means that every single image can be dedicated to its own section that can be edited on its own and can be changed completely separately to the other images. You also have the ability to add different text effects to the document. This is essential for the creation of our poster and magazine documents. For example you can add all sorts of different font types to suit the requirements of the user. For us we could add a nice bold font to suit our Empire style that the other popular magazine titles provided its real readers.
QuickTime Player
The QuickTime player is the program we used to film the video's on this page. This is because this program allows us to record the screen that is currently being used. Once we have finished, we could stop the recording and save it to wherever we like as a video file. This was good because we could then upload it to Final Cut: Pro to begin editing it before uploading it to YouTube.
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