Evaluation Q.4

When creating a trailer with a low budget and with limited hardware and equipment it is not easy to make a good looking trailer, but it is not impossible. The use of simple home software such as “final cut pro” can be used to produce decent products (Just look at “The Coen Brothers”) and thanks to all the free online services such as You Tube, Blogger and Flickr independent film making is so much easier. Were it not for the technological advances of today creating and marketing a film would be considerably harder.
The various features available on web 2.0 allowed our group to create and edit our film trailer a lot more easily. By using You Tube we were able to create a source of viewing of our trailer so that we could present it to the class and gain some feedback. Blogger and Flickr allowed us to post all of our work in a place that is easily accessible for other members of our group and allowed us to keep all of our research and data safely backed up. These sites are all very simply to use and navigate one’s way around them. My only criticism of Blogger is how you upload images against text neatly.
The equipment we used for highly important to us as it allowed us to film our trailer. The camera and tripod is tricky to get use to, luckily for use though one of our group members was adapt in using them and another member of our group was able to easily export our footage. Throughout the project I have become more familiar with how to use Macs and their related software. Personally I prefer to use PC’s, not so much for creating a trailer but for the various over features you can find on a PC such as the wider range of compatible software and video games.
The various advantages of web 2.0 have helped us to create a considerably better trailer and have developed our creativity, skills and knowledge of media studies, without the use of them we would not have been able to creates, edit of screen our trailer. Using Macs has changes how i feel about them in comparison with PC’s but I still say that PC’s are easier to use and have a wider range of features.