YouTube: I used YouTube to upload my preliminary task, animatics video, my rough cuts and final product. Using YouTube as the main technology for these, and also to search for sound effects and inspiration from other Media A Level work, I realised that it is one of the easiest ways to share any material or media projects that individuals may be working on and just as easy for individuals to view these things for their own benefits and viewing purposes. YouTube was a large help in gaining inspiration and putting my material out.
Final Cut: I used final cut to edit everything that needed to be uploaded to YouTube. As I had never used Final Cut before, everything was very advanced to me and so I had to learn more about this software than I did with any other technology. Throughout the course of using Final Cut, I had learnt how to: add titles to my material, edit videos effectively, add sound to my material and add transitions to my material. Using Final Cut allowed for more creativity and clarification to be put into our material.
Prezi: Prezi was used as a presenting tool for our horror film opening ideas. We created a Prezi presentation to easily display our horror film opening pitch where we presented where our inspiration came from, who our target audience is, our ideas for locations, our ideas for props and costumes and how we would overcome any problems. Prezi being a virtual canvas to map out ideas, let me know that it is important to gather and share ideas for products in order to really get a clue for what may work and what may not work and what ideas could be improved and what could be removed.
Blogger: I created a blog where I was able to share all my research and planning and also view my teachers' blog created for A Level Media students in order to view homework and coursework etc. I learnt how easy it is to publish material on Blogger and so it encouraged me to do more research and analysis.
Free SFX: I created an account on Free SFX to search for most of the sounds used in our horror film opening and legally download them for free so that they could be be inserted into our material on final cut. I was able to find all the Foley sound and most of the diegetic sound needed for our opening on the Free SFX - this made the search for sound extremely easy and straightforward. Before finding the website I wasn't sure about the policies to copyright sound and how we would find free sound, so searching for websites that provide free sound notified me that there are many sources for sound all over the internet that are copyright free and easily downloadable to use in each's own material.
Survey Monkey: Being able to create a questionnaire on Survey Monkey to gain information in order to help construct my product in a way that would cater to my audiences horror film preferences was very helpful when brain storming conventions we would challenge and use in our horror film opening. Creating a survey taught me how essential it is to gain preferences and expectations of any material that I am constructing in order to appeal to a mass market.
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