Week 11

WEEK 11 – (post-production: introduction to video-editing or re-drafting layouts)

How are you using media technologies in the post-production stage of your product?

Ingesting is a general term for capturing, transferring, or importing video, audio, still images, and metadata to your computer’s hard disk, which creates media files. You can ingest media files at any time, although most footage should be ingested before you start editing. We made sure this was done to avoid any problems.

We used technologies online that were used for emergency back up at short notice moments. For an example, using Hotmail sending service helped us to retrieve our sound and image files and it was a good internet resource to use considering that it was portable and could be accessed on any computer including internet at any time. There were no restrictions, and those factors was what made the internet page useful.

All the media technologies previously mentioned worked for our trailer and all successfully worked with some exceptions.  However we realised that if we hand the funds for the most expensive technology and resources, the quality of our trailer would have been better. Nevertheless, we made an excellent final piece.

In what ways will your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?

Too add special effects to our trailer, we wanted to add two things

1) We wanted the trailer captions to have more movement



2) Add some special effect noises and transitions for the camera snaps towards the end of the trailer

Using Pixlr and Paint Software, we made a mug shot effect. Gathering sounds from freesound.org, we made this more realistic by adding ambient noise searching for 'Camera noises'.

We used Adobe Premier to make our captions have more movement to make the trailer look more exciting as this better demonstrates the youth (active and fast pased). With this we added 'Woosh & Swoosh' sound effects from freesound.org

What have you learned from your audience feedback?


The audience found the footage eye-catching and comical which was what we were going for. I recieved some positive critisisms such as the trailer seems realistic and appears to look like a real product that was being advertised in the market. I also got some negative critisisms such as the trailer should be shortened by a few seconds and there were some uneccessary dialogue that could have been cut shorter to make the trailer flow better. I took this into consideration and proceeded to make my trailer better.