How did you use media technoligies in the construction,reseach,planning and evaulation stages?

Throughout this whole project, there was a wide range of technology that was used in order to construct, research, plan and evaluate my project.

Research: For the research we used a lot of the internet to look on youtube and look at other examples of previous years work. I used my blog to put up polls to ask the people what they like in horror trailers

and also there media work. By answering the polls we could get a better idea of what people wanted and also having an easier way of getting the answers.

After we completed all of our research and had a pretty good idea about what each media product had to include and also what the audience wanted, we then wrote a list in our book so we could keep going back to

it to remind us as well as the pictures we had already uploaded to our blogs which we analiysed and reviewed reminds us as well.

Planning: We all started by doing our own mini trailer on a sheet of paper to see all 3 o our ideas and how we could use a bit of everyones ideas. We then plan our trailer by using a sheet of paper that had a grid set out, we then manually drew our own initial idea's then came together as a group to decide our final idea's for our horror trailer which includes captions to explain why we done this

and how. We then scanned our storyboards using a scanner which then copied onto a memory stick, which we then c

opied from the memory stick onto the mac we was using. After uploading our storyboards, i created a mood board for the genre of film that the groups trailer would be.

Constructing our products:

Trailer:The first use of technology to construct my media project was a filming camera that allowed us to film

all the footage we needed for our tiler.This was a HD camera so the shots looks really clean and focussed nicely. To keep the camera

steady we used a tri-pod which came i handy as som

e of the roads.

We created our trailer usi

ng, premiere pro.We uploaded all of our footage onto premiere pro but before we did anything we looked through

all the shots it all and deleted some of the scenes that didn't come out so well. Before we uploaded the footage and start editing we had to uploaded the music we wanted from YouTube so we dragged the file into premiere

pro and cut it to the length we wanted it.We then dragged each bit of footage chosen into the upper lines and cut them to the length we wanted them.

We then added cross fades and dissolves so that all of the shots blend into each other. For the title and the coming soon i used photoshop to create the picture and added that into the permiure pro.

Magazine,poster:

To create our film poster and magazine cover, we used photo shop to do most of our main editing and we used a number of different techniques including the douge tool and the lasool tool to cut out pictures with no outlines so they look professional and good quality. From creating a magazine cover last year we had pretty good skills on photo shop and i also use photoshop for my other Alevele's so i was the best person to create our promo work. We used of the Internet to rescaled some of the pictures for our film poster and mostly copied and pasted images from the Internet for t

he advertisements of other films being promoted and used the magic wand tool then rescaled it and moved it around the page for where it looked most suitable. We changed the colour of the 'R' for the masthead our magazine cover title, we did this by using the wand tool again and then changing the colour so that only the one letter was a different colour and i didn't go over the edges and make it look untid

y. We already had our main image so all i had to do was fit everything eles around it.

Creating the film poster again we used photoshop to do all the work for us. I took the image from my Photography work that i originally had and thought that it was a suitable image for our film so i used photoshop to change the brightness and contrast to fit the description more. After the mian image of the location was perfect i got the silhouette and pram from the internet ad again used the magic wand tool to place them where i wanted them. I got the font from a website called dafonts.com and used the wand to

ol to make sure the outline was perfect. I also used the photoshop for the rest of the promo work to make it perfect.

Evaluation:

For my evaluation i used my questionnaire which i put onto my blog with the research questions.

To put this onto my blog i went onto the design, gadget, and added in my questions and changed the date when the poll is over so there is long enough for people to answer. I also asked people face to face to get there reaction and also so they could tell me what i needed to improve in detail and not over

a blog.

The main web

site i used for all of my blog work was www.blogspot.com, where i posted all my planning and researching

as well as the final products. I used a number of technologies for the planning, research and construction of my media products, from studying media last year also helped me to complete my media work this year alot quicker as i would not have know how to use most of the pro

grammes. by using all of these technologies and programme's on the macs i believe that the group's media trailer and ancillary task's have came out looking professional and therefore reflect the quality onto the amount of hard work put in.