(1) Adobe Garage Band - This piece of softwae was used to record a scream sound effect that we would later add to he soundtrack of our horror teaser. It also allowed us to create our music soundtrack so that we could have copyright free music.
(2) Adobe Photoshop CS4 - This was used for the ancillary texts. Both the film poster andthe magazine cover were made using this software.
(3) Dafont.com - This website provided me with the font I used on my poster. It also created the "Skin Deep" intertitle in the teaser displaying the films title.
(4) Digital camera - With this I took my stills for the ancillary texts.
(5) Digital video camera - With this we filmed our teaser trailer.
(6) Adobe Final Cut Pro - This software was used for the editing of our software. It alowed us to upload all of our rough footage and edit it into the final trailer
(7) Youtube.com - This was used for a lot of research into existing teaser trailers. Trailers found on this site was ver useful to view to get insperation for our own trailer. Several have been analysed on this blog. Our final product was also uploaded to this site to self distribute.
(8) Blogger.com - This is the site that hosts this blog. It has alowed for a more modern way of producing and displaying coursework and allows for multimedia inputs.
(9) Adobe Livetype - This program was used to create the intertitles for the teaser trailer. They were then imported to Final Cut Pro.
Google has also been very useful for earching for information as well as researching existing horror posters and film magazines. Social networking sites such as Facebook have also been useful to gain audience feedback. Flickr.com has also been used to annotate images.
Adobe’s Final Cut Pro was used for the editing of the teaser. This program allowed us to upload our group’s footage from each shoot. Once uploaded on the system, we could then view it in the left-hand-side video player shown above. Once decided upon which shots should be included in the trailer, we used the “in” and “out” tools to select which parts of the shot is needed. This was then placed onto the timeline, which can be seen at the bottom of the screenshot above. The footage that had been cut and place on the timeline could be viewed on the right-hand-side video player. Effects were placed onto several shots to make them look darker. To give a night time look, we darkened the shots and added a blue filter. The speed of several shots was changed, depending on how slow of fast the shot worked best. Different edits could be chosen including: cuts, fades and dissolves. Cuts were mostly used for continuity editing. Fades were added to intertitles. Intertitles were added to the teaser. These gave the films title and the text, “beauty is only skin deep”, “A knife goes deeper”.
The soundtrack was also added during the editing process. A main score was added through the duration of the teaser. Sound effects placed to match with certain shots, such as the car break sound. Many of the tracks overlap playing at the same time. Adobe Garage Band was used to record a sound effect of a scream. This was simple to do and was then imported to the timeline, to match with the correct shot. Final Cut Pro was quite difficult for me to use when we began the project. However, as I used it more frequently, I became more confident. By the end of the project I was able to use the software with ease.
Working with Blogger allowed a more modern way to complete the coursework. I feel that completing the work via internet is a clever way to integrate as much media into the project as possible. Blogger allows images to be added to the blog to provide visual aide. This is very important when analysing existing products and when producing an audio-visual project. Videos from youtube were embedded to the blog. This allowed me to analyse the text, and provide the examiner with what is being discussed. This prevents having to write a plot summary as they can view it themselves; it allowed me to get straight to the analysis. Our finished product – the teaser trailer – was also posted which was very useful. I feel that using Blogger allowed to extent my creative ideas, instead of pain blocks of text that are seen in essays. A more traditional form – such as an essay – may have helped during the evaluation stage. This would have ensured that I would have spent more time on the structure of the evaluation. This may have made the points to work better together and to build to make a better analysis. By using Blogger, I sometimes do not think about what I am going to write before hand, and just start to write the post. This may have had a negative effect on how strong the post is.
It's a good start but this is all really too short. What was FCP like to use in the construction of your project? Post a pic of your project window and talk about each of the areas a bit (timeline, canvas, tools etc). Also, in doing your evaluation did you find working with a blog and flickr helped you extend your ideas, or be clearer, or did you think that using a more traditional form like an essay would have been better?
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