These images above are all the software and equipment we used when making our teaser trailer and ancillary texts.
Web 2.0 is a term used to describe advanced technology and Internet technology. The advantages of using Web 2.0 for low budget film makers are that majority of the technology used is available free of charge, such as google, blogger and YouTube. Websites such as these enable us to distribute, research and promote our own media texts. Other advantages are that people are able to get actively involved in what they are creating and that the information required is easier and faster to get hold of, in all making the job less time consuming and less effort in which to achieve.
Photoshop - This programme was used when making both of my ancillary texts. Photoshop enabled me to insert pictures and fonts so that i could edit and manipulate them by using various tools and effects. By having 'layers' this meant that I could easily manage my images in order to create both my poster and magazine cover.
Flickr - This programme was used when completing research for ancillary texts and also in my evaluation. When researching ancillary texts we found film posters and magazine covers in which we thought worked well under the horror genre, we then annotated these on Flickr so that we could clearly distinguish key points in that we wanted to take across when it came to completing our own. I also used Flickr when evaluating my work as I think Flickr is easy to use and shows the points being made clear and constructively, therefore would be a more creative way of evaluating.
Blogger - This is the programme which all our coursework is recorded on. It allows us to create a background image, which ultimately represents the genre of the blog, this is then constructed with 'posts' which is what different parts of our work is posted under. Blogger allows us to upload images and videos, insert text and also enables us to upload our Flickr images which in a click takes you across to the Flickr website so that annotations can be easily viewed. Blogger has been the most useful media used as it allows us to demonstrate our coursework, not only in a practical way but also creative, which then makes the work far more interesting to complete and to view.
IPhone - This is my phone, this was used in the making of our teaser trailer to contact other members in our group when needing to organise and plan our shooting schedules .
Mac Computer - These are the computers in which we created all our work on and used the Internet.
Final Cut Pro - Final Cut Pro is the programme we used to upload our footage from the video camera and import files. This is then what our teaser trailer was created on. Final Cut Pro enabled us to grab various shots from our footage which would then be cut down and edited to fit our needs. With a timeline style format it makes the footage and sound easy to address and therefore pick up if to edit and change. A lot of our editing was a 'try and see' process because at first the software package appeared complex, however with time we got used to it which made our trailer easier to do and ultimately better with better editing skills.
Garageband - Garageband is music composition software which we used to create original sounds and also to distort rights-free music and voices. It enabled us to create an effective sound track by adding reverb and mixing instruments.
Video Camera - A video camera was used to film all our footage for our teaser trailer. We used props such as a tripod, this made our shots appear careful and still and also allowed us to do higher angle shots from a titled position. Majority of our filming was handheld as we felt this worked well with our horror genre and also fits in with the fact that our teaser trailer is a low budget British film which suggests that more technical equipment was not available to us. Another feature which we used was night mode, this is also genre specific to horror and gave it a scarier, darker feel.
Digital Camera - A digital camera was used when taking still images of our little girl which we used in our trailer, these images were used to make up our ancillary texts. The pictures were then either uploaded through a memory stick or sent through via email to our college address, therefore making the process less time consuming and easy.
My fonts.com - This is a distributor of digital fonts and is the website in which we created our main font and film title Alice.
YouTube - YouTube was used for many important areas throughout our coursework for example, research, planning, evaluating and audience feedback. In research and planning we were able to embed a teaser trailer from YouTube in which we then analysed to help us gain knowledge of various horror's and to be used to the horror conventions. Both our draft and final teaser trailers were uploaded onto YouTube, firstly to put onto our blog, but also to gain audience feedback. As YouTube is a worldwide website it proved to be the best source of gaining audience feedback as people are able to rate, like and comment the trailer. This was also played through YouTube when having our class viewing of our trailers which was our main source of audience feedback, therefore proving to be an important aspect of our production.
Google - Google is a worldwide search engine which proved useful in all aspects of making our trailer, poster and magazine cover. A few examples of what we used Google for are as follows -
- Film posters
- Film magazines
- Researching horror
- Logo's and many more.
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