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

This project has developed my uses in media technologies.
Throughout the project I managed to use a wide range of media technologies to produce the three products.

For the research and planning stage I used Youtube to look at existing film trailers and Google to search for existing film magazine front covers and film posters. These are what helped me when choosing the storyline and what conventions I had to follow when producing my products.


As the film posters and front covers were hard to analyse on a Blogger post, I first did them on Microsoft Word and then uploaded them onto ScribD, which I then embeded the code and copy and pasted it into a new blog post. Before this project I had never used ScribD before and now I believe that it is a simple and easy way to upload your work on to something like Blogger.


After I had finished analysing and researching into existing products, my group then moved into the filming stage. To record the footage we used a Sony Handycam HDR-XR100, which is a HD video camera, we also used a tripod for the more serious shots so that the footage was not shakey and did not look too amature.

Once the footage was completed we uploaded it onto an Apple Mac computer which is where we then continued to edit our work in a programme called Adobe Premiere Pro. This programme allowed us to add the clips togther, change the length of them and add any effects or music that we wanted to be included in our trailer. When I first stated using this programme I thought that it was quite complicated and I didn't know how to use the tools to their full potential. Once I knew how to work it basically it didnt take too long to pick the rest of it up.

To create our film poster and film magazine front cover we used two other programmes called Adobe Photoshop CS4 and elements 8. These programmes helped us to cut out any images, add them onto another background, add any effects etc. Photoshop was the best programme to use when it came to producing a magazine front cover and poster as, images can edited and cropped to the way that you want them and captions can be transferred from the trailer and then added to these two pieces of work. Photoshop is also quite an easy programme to follow when you know how everything works on it.