By Alex Toumazou

1. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? By Alex Toumazou

2. Aim of this Presentation • The aim of this presentation is to explain the use of Media Technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluative of my written communication of the G321 media Portfolio

3. Objectives of this Presentation This presentation will present how I used specific Hardware and Software in: • My Research of my own 2 minute film • My Development of my own 2 minute film • The Production of my own 2 minute film • The Evaluation of my own 2 minute film

4. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Media Language – Cinematography For the research of my Cinematography, I created a website from Weebly and dedicated a page to Cinematography specifically and explained how three horror films conform or deviate to the typical genre conventions of horror and how those three films influence narrative and visual development of my own 2 minute horror film. I Demonstrated the typical cinematography conventions in Horror by uploading images from Google of these three chosen films as well as video trailers and clips from Youtube of those films.

5. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Media Language – Cinematography For the research of my Mise En Scene, I created a website from Weeblyand created another page just for Mise En Scene specifically and explained how three horror films conform or deviate to the typical genre conventions of horror and how those three films influence the narrative and visual development of my own 2 minute horror film. I Demonstrated the typical Mise En Scene conventions in Horror by uploading images from Google of these three chosen films as well as video trailers and clips from Youtube of those films

6. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Media Language – Editing For the research of Editing, I created a website from Weebly and created another page for editing and explained how three horror films conform or deviate to the typical genre conventions of horror and how those three films influence the narrative and visual development of my own 2 minute horror film. I Demonstrated typical editing conventions in Horror by uploading images from Google of these three chosen films as well as video trailers and clips from Youtube of those films

7. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Media Language – Sound For the research of sound, I created another page for editing and explained how three horror films conform or deviate to the typical genre conventions of horror and how those three films influence the narrative and visual development of my own 2 minute horror film. I Demonstrated typical sound conventions in Horror by uploading images from Google of these three chosen films as well as video trailers and clips from Youtube of those films

8. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Institution The research of institution include creating another page for editing which explained what institutions I believed would distribute my film. I also explained how this influenced the narrative and visual development of my own 2 minute horror film. I also discussed Warp films as I believed they would be the most reluctant to produce my film

9. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Genre For the genre research, I created another weebly page, and I discussed typical genre conventions of horror, psychological horrors and documentary style horrors. I analyzed three films in relation to their genre conventions and discussed how I planned to implement that in to my own film.

10. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Representation In terms of representation, I answered several representation questions on three films on my choice and I discussed typical representations of social groups in the genres of my choice on another weebly page.

11. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Audience For audience, I created another weebly page which consisted of my explaining what type of audience my film would attract and researched audience theories such as the hypodermic needle.

12. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Ideology For the research on ideology, I created another weebly page and analysed three films in terms of ideology and discussed how I planned to implement my analysis in to my own short film.

13. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the research of my own film: Narrative For the narrative section of my research, I dedicated a page to narrative which consisted of researching typical narrative codes in horrors and documentary style horrors. As well as this, I analysed narrative in three films in relation to their genre.

14. Hardware and Software used in the research section of my portfolio Software • Safari • Weebly • Youtube • Google • BFI • IMDB • Warp Films Hardware • Apple Imac computer • Iphone 5

15. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the development of my film: Logline and Synopsis For the Logline and Synopsis, I created a Word Document and wrote down a logline consisting of 25 words and a synopsis that consisted of 212 word synopsis. I then created a page on my development section of my weebly website and implemented a file which consisted of this document.

16. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the development of my own film: Treatment Considering the treatment was more of a narrative form than a visual, I created another document which consisted of a 433 word treatment which I uploaded as a file on to my treatment page of my development section of my weebly website.

17. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the development of my own film: Script The script of my film was another narrative structured part of my development so I did the same as I did with the treatment and created another word document of which I created a script for our film. The process for writing the script was a long process as we ended up writing 3 versions which I all uploaded onto the script page of my development section on weebly

18. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the development of my own film: Storyboard For our storyboard, We took photos of the film as we were shooting and managed to print them out and stick them on A3 paper on which we wrote the slugline below each picture. We then took a picture of the story and uploaded that to weebly.

19. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the development of my own film: Shot Plan We first drew out our shot plan on a table of which we took a picture of. We then uploaded this to a PowerPoint presentation which we made to present an aerial view of the cinematography. To present our shot plan on different slides. Each slide consisted shots of our film and had a description of the shot in terms of cinematography.

20. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the development of my own film: Shot List For our shot list, we created a word document where we uploaded our pictures we took of our film. We then arranged them to illustrate the shot plan

21. Hardware and Software used in the development of my own film Hardware Software • Apple Imac • Iphone 5 • Canon 600D • HP Printer • Steady Cam • Microsoft Word • Microsoft Powerpoint • Safari

22. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the production of my own film: Camera In terms of production, the camera that was used to shoot our 2 minute horror film was the Canon 600D. This is because we had easy accessibility and the versatility in the interchangeable lenses.

23. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the production of my own film: Accessories The accessories we used included the safari tripod pictured on the right as well as a steady cam. Like the camera, we used these equipment because of the easy accessibility however in the final product, we concluded that we didn’t need the steady cam.

24. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the production of my own film: Editing software • The editing software used was Final Cut Express as it had all the necessary tools and effects we needed to edit our film with. There was also easy accessibility to it.

25. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the production of my own film: Audio Equipment • In terms of audio equpiment, We recorded the voice over in our film with Logic Studio where had a vocal track with the audio. We then bounced this to itunes which was then put into the file of our film in Final Cut Express and integrated them together to produce the final product.

26. Hardware and Software used in the production of my own film Hardware Software • Apple Imac • Iphone 5 • Canon 60oD • Safari Tripod • Steady Cam • Final Cut Express • Logic Studio • iTunes

27. Description and illustration of the Hardware and Software used in the Evaluation of my own film • For the evaluation of my film, I created an evaluation section on my weebly website which consisted of 7 pages for 7 questions which I anwsered using different multimedia formats.

28. Hardware and Software used in the evaluation of my own film: Camera Hardware Software • Apple Imac • Iphone 5 • Safari • Prezi • Microsoft Word • Microsoft Powerpoint • Weebly