Thursday 20 October 2016

Making your TV Drama 'The Fall' textual analysis relevant to your coursework

Post your powerpoint on your blog with the following paragraph:


Although I completed this as part of my study of the representation of gender for my AS exam, it is relevant to the my coursework as, in planning for this, I will need to consider how the representation of gender is constructed through the use of camera shots, mise-en-scene, editing and sound. This will hopefully enable me to represent characters in a variety of different ways in my film opening.

Monday 3 October 2016

Creative use of technology

Ok - these change all the time but here is the latest list of methods of presentation that I know of and what you can do with them.
Any others you come across please tell me. I haven't used them all so can't vouch for how good they are - please let me know if they're rubbish or not rubbish or slightly rubbish.


Ways of presenting mind maps/thematic links/mood boards etc:
wordle.net
bubbl.us
pixton.com  online comic creator
mixbook.com online scrapbook tool
mashuparts.com   photo mashup tool
mindmeister.com mindmap tool
smartdraw.com create 3d graphs or spider diagrams
serifdraw
spicynodes.org online organisation tool for websites
easel.ly way of presenting
visual.ly professional methods of presenting information
https://issuu.com/ digital publishing site
http://www.videoscribe.co/  Create your own whiteboard videos
pixlr - photo editing software
Adobe Draw - Free illustration app
Serif Draw
Slidely - Photos in a slideshow
Slidebean


Editing software
picmonkey.com
IMovie : The New iMovie app is really good for £3.99 - lots of templates
pixton.com online comic strip creator
worditout.com  online word cloud generator
visme




Uploading powerpoints to your blog
slideshare.net
google slides

Apps / Photo and video editing
piccollage
http://videostarapp.com/
canva - really good site with a wide range of templates and interesting fonts for presenting infographics, completing posters etc.
VideoFXlive
YouCam Make Up
Superpower FX
Repix
Snapseed (photo editing for Android and Apple)
goanimate.com  create animations for free
Clipper video app for iPhone
Filmora app
animato.com create 30 second short videos out of photos, images or videos

More detailed:
prezi.com
gliffy.com  flowchart creator
evernote.com
emaze.com
springnote.com  create group notebook online
glogster.com
tinyscanner
projeqt

Using copyright free audio in your productions

Copyright Free Music/Audio Sites


(Note: not all music is free to download from copyright free sites – there are download fees)
    Free Sound Effects from PartnersInRhyme.com:
    Many, many more sites are available just ‘Google’ ‘copyright free music audio download’ or ‘free audio editor software’