How did you use media technologies in the construction ad research, planning and evaluation stages?

The most immediate program that was used in these stages was blogger.com. This website allowed the creation of a blog in order for the various stages to be written about. This has led to it becoming something that i have become very familiar with over the two years i have used it.

This is the camera that was used for filming the trailer, as well as taking various screenshots for use in our other two projects.  This was a very good camera for our film trailer, as it showed pristine quality video's, which could be made into HD footage. This would allow for less grainy shots, which would improve the overall video quality. Zooming however was an issue that we struggled to rectify, as zooming, especially in low light, did show some amount of grain, which could have decreased the overall video quality.  












Rather than use adobe premier elements, we instead decided to use a program called imovie. This was because there was a mac to hand. Imovie contains many more options for editing type, as well as having the advantage of it being arguably more user friendly. Another thing is that imovie gives lots of ways to add sound effects to projects and we can add your own music from your music library, which is faster and more efficient than various alternatives








Photoshop was very important in regards to the creation of the film poster and the magazine front cover. Whilst, at first, fairly complicated to use, it soon became rather fun to discover the various ways in which you could create and change the posters them selves. I was taught the basics of photo shop by my project partner Connor, who is very good at photo shopping, and with his help, came up with the eventual products featured.



Youtube was used as a tool, not only for uploading the trailer onto the website itself, but was also used to have a look at trailers for the analysis step of the project. While this was to be expected, I also decided to look at the comments sections of the trailers that I was analysing in order to understand how similar films were rated and considered by audiences,and how we could incorporate the feed back from the trailer into our own work.