Youtube was perfect for researching, it helped us to find examples of short films, as well as drug scenes that we could take inspiration from. As the project was a huge challenge for us, and no one else in our class had taken the same efforts, we didn't really have anyone to turn to to ask for ideas, or how we should do things. This was where YouTube came in, it helped us to see exactly how it should be done. If it wasn't for Youtube, I doubt we would have had half of the research that we have now, and the short film wouldn't look anywhere near as professional as it does.. So thanks YouTube!
"DepicT! challenges filmmakers on any budget from anywhere in the world to show their stuff in just a minute and a half. We want your tiny films – submit your super shorts online and be in with a chance of winning priceless industry exposure and exclusive prizes."
There are literally hundreds of films on Depict that anyone can see, it was another great resource for our research, and was in fact one of the main suppliers for previous product research. Although these short films are only 90 seconds long they all had a fantastic story, and we as a group were amazed that they could fit so much into 90 seconds. So Depict was another website that helped us throughout this project.
Web 2.0 is just a fantastic thing, and I believe that this project would have gone no where if it wasn't for it. It's given us everything we need, millions and millions videos that we can gain inspiration from, feedback options so that we can easily leave and recieve feedback, and most importantly, blogger, a place to store everything!! Where would we be without it?!
We were lucky enough to have Adobe Premier Pro installed on some computers at our college. It's definately one of the easiest video editing programs to use out there. And if you're familiar with Photoshop, well it's even easier! This is how easy it is....
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Blogger has made all of our lives easier. Originally everyone would have had to have used power point.. and just jazzed it up a little bit. But blogs make research and advertising your product way more fun, and much more simple. It also means that we can connect our blogs together, they're so easily accessible it means that we can share our work, and make sure that we are all on the same path, rather than having to open up a massive power point document we can just open a web page :)
It also means there is hardly any chance of all of our work being deleted, the web can store our work for hundreds and hundreds of years, whereas if we run out of memory on our computers... our power points may have to be deleted, meaning we won't ever be able to look back on our work again.
Blogger makes our work seem more professional, the layout we use can match the same themes that we have used across the whole project. It also has the amazing Gadget feature which means we can link our Flickr, and our Twitter to our blog and even create polls to gain audience feedback.
These two beauties are the equipment that we had available to use. With new technologies being designed and released so quickly in these modern times, it's so easy to get hold of a DSLR or MINI DV CAM. They give us the quality that we need to make a amateur project look professional, at a fraction of the price.
Overall we're lucky to live in such an advanced age, where all of this technology and all of these resources are literally at our fingertips!
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