What different types of technologies that I will be using for my evaluation task?

Technology 1: Prezi Presentation

The first question was “In what ways does your media product use develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?” I will be using a well common technology in order to present the answers given from the question based on analysing my final version of short film, in this case, our film is called ‘Karma.’

The technology is called ‘Prezi’ as it provides a wide range of themes and design that will appear creative yet appealing towards target audiences in order to engage them to read on. Also, the user interface is easy and simple to use as mostly anyone is able to use it sensibly as it is straightforward, after having to sign in and making an account.

The use of having different designs and themes for Prezi is fun and exciting as I am able to choose a particular theme of horror/thriller based of themes in order to include it onto my evaluation so the type of theme of the Prezi presentation would be able to link to the genre of our short film; for example, being able to choose a blood/gory themed of design on Prezi so it works well with the genre of the short film, horror/thriller.

In addition, the use of Prezi enables me to create thousands of presentation that would provide a lot of features including, adding images, text boxes, different font styles and sizes, heading font styles and many more. This would be able to help me create an effective use of technology whilst answering the first question for the evaluation task.

Technology 2: Slide share

For this second type of technology, I have decided to use slide share in order to answer the second question from the evaluation task obtained. The second question reads, “how effective is the combination of your main product and ancillary texts?”

I will be talking about how my three media texts operates as a whole package & how three texts uses similar themes, content, house style, ethos, imagery, tone/language. Using slide share, I will be able to work productively as I have used slide share before so I know most of its own features, e.g. text boxes, images, font styles, structure design templates from Microsoft PowerPoint software.

Like I mentioned above, I would first of all create my presentation based on the second question given and be able to choose a suitable template design in order to link it to the genre of my short film, which was horror/thriller. Then, I will be able to add appropriate images for example, screen shots from our final poster design in order to showcase the types of font styles and house style we have used for a specific genre of short film; in this case, horror/thriller.

Slide share would be a straightforward software when it comes to presenting different images and ideas in depth and it is not limited so you can carry on adding slide one after another (as many slides as you want) so it would be in depth including some appealing images as well, to engage the readers/target audiences.

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Furthermore, I will be using another technology for the same previous question because I wanted to use a unique yet professional technology in order to engage the readers in more. Tumblr is one of the top social media network in our generation today as it is a “micro blogging platform”. Users are able to follow other users’ blogs as well as making their own blog in private. And it is a website that contains common features like dashboard interface and being able to post either a photo set or gifs. Tumblr is very common for teenagers.

I will be able to create our own Tumblr page for our short film and call it, karmashortfilm.tumblr.com as teenagers would be able to take notice and gain a bigger target audiences then, this would be able to increase the number of views as well as fans if they like the short film that I have produced with my group.

Technology 3: A video (blog)

The third technology that I will be using is a video blog. A video blog is something unusual yet creative and interactive towards a set of your own target audiences. It gives a sense of production by using a voice recorder over a video using ADOBE Premiere Pro or any editing related software.

I have decided to use a video (blog) for the third question from the evaluation task as it reads, “What have you learned from your audience feedback?”.

In this case, I wanted to take various screenshot from our pre-production focus group video feedback from our target audiences, which was 16 year olds and above, which we have used our class mates feedback since they are well suited for the age group for our target audiences; they are 17 years old so it was perfect.

Also, I will be taking a short brief video of feedback by some people around my college that are in the same age group as our target audiences; being able to ask them what their thoughts are based on our final posters/film reviews and so on.

As well as, I will be mentioning some of the comments that we have received on YouTube, a video sharing website that can reach a wider target audiences around the world. I would be able to talk about some criticism as well as positive complements about our final version of our short film, poster and film review and how I can improve my production skills in the future.

Technology 4: SpiderScribe

For the final question, it reads, “How did media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?” In this section, I will be evaluating the skills that I have developed in camera, moving still image, editing and print production as a whole.

I have decided to use SpiderScribe as it is simple yet productive website which allows you to brainstorm ideas/take notes in depth. It is not limited as you can easily get work done quickly by having a straightforward user interface.

I will be able to add appropriate images in order to link to my notes and text boxes in order to make it appealing and clear at the same time. I also have to structure it well so the topics that I will be talking about would not get mixed up as this will only confuse the readers/target audiences. However, the images are only limited as you need to upgrade and pay if you want to add more images so I am only able to show a few evidence images to backup my points.

As for the font colour, types and sizes- I will only be using two different types of font styles and using the colour black and red which would be able to link to our original colour scheme for our final products and film reviews so it would look like the three media outlets in one.