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

evaluation stages?

Research

The first thing I did for my coursework was create a new page on my wordpress blog. This is where all my work can be found and throughout the research and planning, construction and evaluation stages, I constantly referred back and forth from my blogpage.

To note: when using wordpress, you need to ensure you are on www.wordpress.com and not on wordpress.org.

The next step was research. The first bit of research I did was secondary research via Youtube. I found three existing teaser trailers of my chosen genre which was horror and embedded these into my blog page. I then went on to analyse these three teaser trailers in my wordpress blog and looked at conventions which run through them all. This then led me to my initial ideas.

I used internet explorer to research and find examples of film posters and magazine front covers. From internet explorer, I saved the images as .JPEGs and then imported them into a power point presentation so I could analyse them. after analysing them, I saved each poster and magazine image with it’s analysis as a .JPEG and then imported into my blog under the research and planning section.

Add in image of google images

For my primary research I used Microsoft word to design my questionnaire.

I used powerpoint several times during the whole process. In the research and planning stage I used it as an easier way to analyse existing film posters and magazine front covers.

After conducting my questionnaire, I used Microsoft excel to collate my results and convert them into graphs. This was one of the longer tasks of the research section as it is quite time consuming inputing all the data from your questionnaire together. Once I converted the data into graphs, I had to pull them into microsoft powerpoint and then from there, save them as an image which I could put into my blog.

Planning

During the planning stage, I used powerpoint several times. I used it to make up mocks of my initial ideas for my poster and magazine cover. I used powerpoint as it was a program I had easy access to outside of lesson and this allowed me to very quickly plan my ideas so I could see what looked better, what didn’t work, what needed improving and changing. Image of microsoft powerpoint

needed

I was initially planning on using the Canon 450D DSLR to take my photos for my animatic as it takes high quality photos, however when there were restrictions with using this piece of equipment as only people with experience in using it were allowed to book it out for usage. This was because this camera is of high value and is more complicated to use, so if an inexperienced person was to use, then they may do something to it. I quickly overcame this issue by borrowing a different camera with equivalent quality which wasnt as complicated to use.

Include image of canon ixus 95

I ended up using the canon ixus 95 camera which was really simple to use and this enabled me to take my pictures quickly and upload it onto the mac ready to be imported in a sequence on final cut.

• Include scanner to put storyboards and that in

Construction

Images of dolly, boompole, camcorder, headphones, windshield,

Ended up not using the dolly because it was too wide to fit into the narrow passage of the setting and also because I found it made the footage jilty and jerk a little.

The longest process of the construction process was editing my recordings on Final Cut.

I used motion to create the text for my teaser trailer. As I constructed my text, I wrote down my steps such as fonts and sizes so that when I came to creating text for my poster and magazine cover on photoshop, I could create same or similar text so that all three products would relate to each other.

Add in screen shots of testing the different fonts and that

The first task I conducted on photoshop was to manipulate and create an image for my film poster and magazine front cover. Because I have rarely used photoshop, I didn’t know how to really use any of the tools so I watched and followed tutorials on youtube which was a major help as not only did it show me how to get my desired effects such changing backgrounds, it also gave me inspiration for some of my own ideas.

photoshop

Which tools did you use most? Quick selection tool, etc

Youtube – teaser sat on youtube for people to see and comment on

Evaluation

The first step in creating my evaluation was to create a slide share account. This was so that I could turn my PowerPoint presentations into and online format so that I could get an embed code and import it into my blog page. This was a simple process and a very quick one. A problem with this though was that you couldn’t upload files which included sound so I had to record voiceovers and sounds separately and embed them into the blog separately.

Facebook, etc used for audience feedback