EVALUATION: PART THREEBY AIDAN KEENAN

For my research and planning, I used many sources of new media. Google was my

main search engine, helping me find magazine covers and posters to draw inspiration

from, helping me find fonts and effects to use on Photoshop and Premier Pro and

helping me research the most effective ways to present my finished products.

Websites like IMDb (Internet Movie Database) and Wikepedia allowed me to research

the plots and backstories of various films that helped inspire the creation of our trailer

and my film poster and magazine cover.

Youtube was used to host the rough cut and final cut of our trailer and also to host the

trailer feedback video of the class giving us spoken feedback on our final trailer. I also

used Youtube to search for trailers to help inspire our trailer. Movies such as Resident Evil

(2002), Zombieland (2009) and Cabin In The Woods (2012) were along the trailers I

watched to draw inspiration from.

How did you use media technologies with the construction, research,

planning and evaluation stages?

During the construction of our main product and my

ancillary products, two programs were mainly used.

Adobe Photoshop was used to create my film poster

and magazine cover and Adobe Premier Pro was used

to create our trailer. In Photoshop, I adjusted the levels

and hue/saturation of my photographs to enhance the

lighting and darkness in them. I also changed the layer

style of duplicates to screen, multiply and overlay to add

textures over the top and again to adjust the lighting

levels. I also used the crop and free-transform tools to

adjust my photographs to the correct size and to place

the text and brush effects in the correct areas.

In Premier Pro, we adjusted the brightness and contrast

in the video effects to enhance the feel of the clips,

adding to the darker feel of the trailer. When we added

the music, we deleted the already present audio and

then placed ours down, before cropping the film clips

and deleting the ripples between clips to match the

action to the music.

During the evaluation of my work, I used several sites and programs. My

blog on blogger.com houses all of my coursework for easy viewing, editing

and adding. Blogger also allowed us to have polls where class members

can rate our trailers on a scale of 0 to 10. To present my evaluations, I used

Microsoft Powerpoint to write up each evaluation question, before

uploading them to SlideShare, a powerpoint hosting websites. I then

embedded these powerpoints into posts on my blog. Youtube was also

used for my evaluation to host the videos of the class giving us feedback on

the final cut of our trailer