Evaluation Question 4

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

There are many programmes used in making our final trailer/poster/magazine cover. There were different programmes for different aspects throughout the production which are shown below.

Research

When researching other trailers we needed to use YouTube so we were able to look at any type of trailer we wished to and then we were also available to put it onto our blogs easily.

For research into other posters and magazines Google was the best search engine to use as I simply have to put a title of a magazine on Google Photos and all of their front covers appeared and showed a varied variety. This was the same with the poster I just had to put a name of a film I was searching and it came up with all the posters that film had made.

Filming the trailer 

To film the trailer we were first given a camera by the school called a Canon fs406 Video Camera however after using this and fitting a  film together we found out that the quality of the clips were not very good and made the clips very blurry.

However luckily we used my Canon 500D one day as we had forgotten the other camera and discovered it took a much clearer clip. After we realised this we then re-shot everything with this camera.

Making the trailer

At first we were using Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 as it was easy to use and worked well with the Canon Video Camera. However due to our change in video equipment this software did not let us upload our clips, so there for we had to change.

We changed to MoviePlus X3 which was very different the that of Premiere Elements and we had to re-learn how to use it. However this programme was very helpful to us and uploaded our clips with no problem.

The other programme we used was one called ZamZar. This allowed us to upload our background music/soundtrack onto the computer and apply it to our trailer.

Making the ancillary products

To make both the poster and magazine front cover, Adobe Photoshop was used. This programme made it very easy to edit the colours of the photos and also add extra parts in, eg the text on both products or the three extra photos on the left hand side on the magazine front cover. Due to using it in my AS tasks it meant I was able to edit the products easier whenever I wished to.

The Canon 500D was also needed to make the ancillary tasks as it produces a high quality photo which is what we wanted to be able to get the best photos we could to use on our products.

Showing my work

To show the work that has been produced and how it has been done I uploaded all my work onto Blogger as it can easily be seen by the public. You are able to put text, photos, videos, links and many more all onto posts. It is easy to set the layout to how each person wishes it to and to make it easy to find specific things.

I used this website in some of my posts as it shows lots of photos but does not take up a lot of room and you can set your own pace on how fast the photos go.

This is an animated website which you can produce posters easily on anything you want and have all types of photos and text on it, either using your own or adding from the selection they have.

I used the programme called Slideshare that you can upload documents such as powerpoint presentations and then upload them onto your blog, this way the person reading it can look through it at there own pace.