How did you use media technologies in the construction

and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Research and PlanningWe set up a blog using the site ‘blogger’ at the beginning of the process in order to keep track of our work.

We used websites such as YouTube during our research of existing trailers. This allowed us to gather codes and conventions of psychological thrillers, for example ‘Shutter Island’ and ‘Memento. This was essential in order to see how they were constructed and to see what was effective when producing our own trailers.

Websites such as Prezi and Slideshare were used in connection with my blog when analysing existing products, along with showing my progress of my magazine and poster.

Constructing the Trailer

A Fujifilm finepix s2000 video camera was used to capture the footage for the trailer.

Adobe Premier Elements is the editing software we used to create our trailer. We uploaded the footage where we then added intertitles, transitions and sound. This was also used when creating the animatic, therefore I was familiar with this software when it came to producing the trailer.

We also browsed a number of free music download websites in order to find music for our trailer, in particular, Freeplay Music.

Constructing the Ancillary Texts

I used a digital camera in order to take the main images for both my magazine cover and poster. These were uploaded onto the appropriate software using Adobe Bridge.

The camera was also used to producethe animatic.

Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop were the software used in creating both ancillary texts. I used layers to create the structure , apply text and image and other conventional components.

Gathering Audience FeedbackIn order to present our products during the focus group, we did so in the form of a PowerPoint Presentation using the interactive white board and projector.

The video camera was used to film the focus group where we uploaded this onto the editing software. Here we edited the video to use as part of our evaluation.

In the evaluation of my products, I will use a combination of Prezi, Slideshare, PowerPoint, and Adobe Premier to present this.

Evaluation