technologies in the construction, research, and planning and evaluation stage?

While planning and research I used lots of different programmes such as:

Research

• To research for movie trailer in my genre, I got most of my help from the internet and websites such as YouTube. Google was another useful search engine that I used while undergoing my research, I used Google to search for magazine front covers, posters and movie from many different genres but i did try and focus on the Horror/thriller genre. Information about the actors in films and what were the common conventions of magazine front covers, posters and trailers. I used the internet on my phone when we weren't near a computer with internet access and if we needed to find out quick information to help our media project. Movie channels and the cinema were also available for research, different movie trailers and movies to give us a better idea of the conventions and different shot types and locations used. We got ideas from existing movie trailer such as the Blair witch project, which we analysed what we liked about them and what we hated about them and used the ideas in our movie trailer.

Research

• Blogger- Research & Planning We used Blogger a lot in our project to write about our work as we went along with it. Blogger was a useful source as it was easy to use to keep track of our progress while working. We blogged as we went along with, from introduction to our project to the evaluation of our project. Blogger was good as we could embed pictures and videos to show where we were getting our ideas and inspiration from We could also embed all of our planning documents – such as our target audience questionnaire and shooting schedule, constantly updating it with ideas and progress, after filming shoots and editing days.

Research

• My phone helped me during the planning stage as it was great for organisation and meeting up with my partner and making plans on when was best to film. During the filming stage, we took lots of pictures on our phone and we sent it to our computers. I also used my laptop to do lots of research at home on the internet when I wasn’t in college. I was able to go on YouTube to listen and watch movie trailers from my genre, Google to research anything I needed to know.

Construction

• Standard windows seven on a Sony computer was used to operate the various software. A Panasonic camera was used to film our movie trailer. Along with this camera we used a tripod to hold our camera still and to get perfect footage. After filming, we uploaded our footage onto premier pro , here we chose the footage we wanted to include in the video, included it in our timeline, edited the video, added video transitions, and we also added booming noises and music that we thought was best for our trailer. We also used Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop to make a poster and magazine front cover.

Editing

• Premier Pro, Photoshop and Illustrator are the main programs we used. Premiere Pro is a timeline-based video editing software application. Premiere Pro supports many video editing cards and plug-ins for accelerated processing, additional file format support, and video/audio effects. Premiere Pro also integrates with Photoshop. Photoshop files can be opened directly from Premiere Pro to be edited in Photoshop. Any changes will immediately be updated when the Photoshop file is saved and focus returns to Premiere Pro. We also used Illustrator which is also another photo editing program, we decided to use this as well as we thought in some ways it was superior to Photoshop as it has a wider range of fonts.

Image of timeline:

Evaluation

• Blogger was used to collect our filming, editing, research and planning activities that was done throughout our process. Blogger could be used on any device that had internet access making it particularly useful for example on college computers, my personal laptop, my iTouch, my phone and my iPad. It was used to summarise processes, embedding images and embedding videos. Making & editing posts and publishing them was not hard to do on Blogger, it was a very easy procedure.

Evaluation

• We used Facebook and Twitter To get feedback from our target audience. Facebook allowed me to share my video with my online friends and they could comment on my video and say what they thought about it. Because of Facebook, also I was able to share statuses to let people more aware of my trailer. I did this to get as much feedback as possible.. I used twitter to publicise t my video so my friends on twitter could be aware of my video and they messaged me telling me their thoughts about my video.

Evaluation

• I put my video on YouTube and it was therefore easy for everyone to watch, YouTube is very easily accessible. It is a site that on which users can upload there and share video a useful part of YouTube is that people can rate a video, it is also easy to see how many people have viewed your video therefore I was able to see if my advertising and publicising was effective or not by how man. People are also able to comment on videos so i was also able to get more quantitative information from those comments

Evaluation

• owerPoint/Slideshare/prezi. We used PowerPoint to map out all out the visual presentation and then in order to post it on the blog, it had to be converted into slideshare. Both were easy to use and converting the PowerPoint to slideshare was not particularly hard. We also used prezi for presentation of some of our work and although it was quite hard to use we were able to get the hang of it and create some very attractive and unique pieces of work, it was also not hard for us to then embed them onto the blogger.