E V A L U A T I O N Q U E S T I O N 4

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

M E D I A T E C H N O L O G I E S W E R E V E R Y V I T A L A N D U S E F U L I N T H E S E T W O S T A G E S

B E C A U S E T H E I N T E R N E T A L L O W E D M E T O D O E F F E C T I V E R E S E A R C H I N T O V A R I O U S

A S P E C T S S U C H A S T R A I L E R S . A L S O F O R T H E P L A N N I N G S T A G E , M E D I A T E C H N O L O G I E S

W E R E U S E F U L B E C A U S E I W A S A B L E T O P R E S E N T T H E D I F F E R E N T S T A G E S O F P L A N N I N G F O R M Y M E D I A P R O D U C T S

T H R O U G H W E B S I T E S S U C H A S S L I D E S H A R E A N D P R E Z I .

Research and Planning

I was able to use YouTube in order to watch several Horror trailers and look for codes and conventions within them which would be helpful for my own trailer because I was able to look at the common ways in which

horror trailers are made and use this in my own product. Similarly Google was very useful for me because I was able to further research into trailers, posters and magazine covers and find conventions of these three

things.

The main form of media technology that allowed me to present my coursework online was Blogger. Through this I was able to show my

research, planning, construction and evaluation stages. Also presentation websites as shown above helped me throughout my

research and planning because it allowed me to organise my planning effectively so I was able go back and look at anything that I needed to.

Likewise for my research it clearly showed the development of my knowledge of horror trailers.

M E D I A T E C H N O L O G I E S C A M E I N T O V E R Y G O O D U S E B E C A U S E I W A S A B L E T O U S E

E D I T I N G S O F T W A R E S U C H A S A D O B E P R E M I E R E P R O A N D P H O T O S H O P I N O R D E R

T O M A K E M Y T R A I L E R , P O S T E R A N D M A G A Z I N E C O V E R .

Construction

For the construction of my products I used Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop. This was useful because I could have taken a simple route

and used Windows Movie Maker but because I have already used Premiere Pro at foundation portfolio I was aware of the different aspects

of the editing software so I knew how to use it to make my trailer. However this was my first time using Photoshop so it took me a while to

get a hang of it but once I did I was able to use the basic features. Therefore due to my inexperience I don’t think I used this effectively

because I didn’t experiment with things.

D I F F E R E N T P R E S E N T A T I O N S O F T W A R E S U C H A S P R E Z I A L L O W E D M E T O P R E S E N T M Y

E V A L U A T I O N I N D I F F E R E N T W A Y S S O T H A T I T D O E S N O T A P P E A R R E P E T I T I V E B Y U S I N G

T E X T O N L Y O N T H E M Y B L O G .

Evaluation

I used various presentation software such as Slide.es and E-maze in order to present my evaluation questions. This allowed me to move away from the simple type of presentation such as text and image and try out

other websites even though they may appear similar to one another. However I feel as if I didn’t use media technologies as much as I should have at this stage because there were other ways I could have shown my

answers such as making a video with voiceovers.