How did you use media technologies in the

construction and research, planning and evaluation

stages?

The main media technologies that we used for our research: Google

ImagesYoutube

BloggerInternet Explorer

INTERNET EXPLORER

‘Internet Explorer’ is the internet browser that we used to research ideas for our trailer, poser and DVD cover. The internet is accessed by many people worldwide and enables everyone to surf the net for

whatever they want to find.

YOUTUBE

www.youtube.com

We used ‘youtube’ for a lot of our research. This site enabled us to find many different horror film trailers that inspired us greatly. From watching a variety of clips, we could gather ideas and develop them

in our trailer.

GOOGLE IMAGES

http://www.google.co.uk/imghp?hl=en&tab=ii

We used ‘Google Images’ mainly for research into horror posters and DVD covers that already exist, so that we could base our ideas on ones that we liked. It was a useful ‘tool’ as it includes millions of

potential pictures for us to view worldwide.

BLOGGER

www.blogger.com

We used ‘Blogger’ as an excellent way to look at other peoples blogs and to also post our own blogs. As well as it being free, it’s really easy to use and is great when it comes to writing about our work

and evaluating.

The first step in constructing our video was to record all the footage

needed on a Sony hdr-fx7 video camera. We then used a USB

cable to transfer the footage from the memory card to the computer

When we first uploaded the footage we realised we had quite a lot of footage to cut down to roughly 2

minutes of the video. In order to do this we used Adobe

PremierPro and was able to create and edit our whole trailer using this software. We could also add effects such as extra lighting or changing

the overall wash colour of the shots.

Constructionof our trailer

Constructionof our poster and DVD cover

The first step in constructing our Poster and DVD cover was to take

photographs to use for both. We used a SLR camera to capture the images.

We then used a USBcable to transfer the footage from the

memory card to the computer.When we uploaded the photos we

used the programme Adobe Photoshop to edit and arrange the

photos how we wanted them to feature on our poster and DVD cover.

Evaluation

Our evaluation consisted mostly by verbal feedback but we have

uploaded all three of our products to ‘Blogger’ which makes it possible for them to see it all again without the need to be at the same computer as

me.

Overall the most frequent and helpful media

technology used, other than the obvious of Adobe PremierPro and Photoshop to actually create the

finished product, was the internet and in particular YouTube to help us

in all the research we did.