Week 9

WEEK 9 - (POST-PRODUCTION: INTRODUCTION TO VIDEO-EDITING)

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

We used online technological websites such as the use of http://www.pixlr.com/ . Not only did we use this as a quicker alternative to Photoshop software, as it was easier to understand and required less technological knowledge. But we also found it interesting in providing different types of effects that we needed in order to make our trailer look more successful and professional. We used http://www.pixlr.com/ for creating our storyboard.

Using the 'retro vintage effect' we were able to select different colour versions of the image to provide different results. Because we wanted to show the use of our bright oranges and reds to get the feel of the characters, we used this website to our advantage. Creating images like the ones below.

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

To add to the comedy feel, we also added transitions that were taken from the other trailers I had looked at during the pre-production stage where I had researched real media products. Using transitions such as fade out and wipe made our trailer look more professional. Here is how we added it onto our timeline.

I clicked Edit > Project that was selected from the different options on the top of the screen. Then this window appeared:

You could simply click and drag the effect to either the beginning or end of the timeline.

How I decided which effects I were to choose was from watching the trailers, for example, analysing Anuvahood gave me a fair idea of what we were going for and what was to be the result.

The arrows were put on to make it easier for me to understand which direction the screen was to move. This also helped me decide which transition I was to put on e.g. 'wipe up' or 'wipe right' etc.

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

Another part of my audience feedback during adding the sound effects to my trailer was to see what my target audience expected to hear from the trailer. So I asked 10 people one question which allowed them to have multiple answers:

After calculating the responses I had created a bar chart to make it easier for me to view which sound was to be most expected and what sound was to be least expected:

Judging from the results the most expected sound expected was a record scratch sound, drums, fast paced music and woosh/swoosh sound effect. I considered this and this is how I came to the conclusion by downloading these sound effects found on the website along with other effects I thought would go well with the storyline.