Evaluation: Question 4

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

SLR Camera
We used the LSR camera as we thought that it would be easier to use and the quality of the picture would be better than using the Sony Dv camera. We used the cameras to take the pictures for the film magazine and the film poster.

Photoshop
We used photoshop to create the film magazine and film poster. Using this allowed me to create a better quality poster which looked professional as the product was suppost to look realistic for a sale of the product. Photoshop allowed me to be able to cut out the pictures cleanly and then able to rotate or change the size. Also there were many different ways which I could use Photoshop to allow me to match the genre of my magazine and poster. I used the smudge tool to smudge the title of the film to make I look scary. In the magazine it enabled me to get fonts from websites which I could them upload to my magazine.

Blogger
We used blogger to record our planning and research, whereas last year we used PowerPoint. Blogger made it easier to upload pictures and easily add a post from wherever you are due to it being on the internet.

Prezi
We used Prezi for our publication plan to record the distribution detailed. this is a good piece of software as it was easy to use and was able to upload pictures and videos if i wanted to with ease.

GarageBand
We used GarageBand to used for our Podcast and to create the music for our teaser trailer. I thought this was a good piece of software as there were many different sounds that we were able to use and record and upload our own. I thought that it was difficult at the beginning to get a grasp to the technology but like most programs the more you use it the more you get the hang of it.

I-Movie
We used I-Movie to put the teaser trailer together, by changing the length of the shots and editing the film so that it creates a flow to the trailer. I changed the timings of the film to create the suspense in the trailer and also added some fade outs so that the trailer doesn't look at jumpy. This is a good piece of software as it was easy to use and we were able to create a good effect to the trailer.


Internet
We used the internet to use Blogger, You Tube, Prezi and Dafont websites. We used Youtube in our planning and research to look up other teaser trailers which matched our genre of our trailer, which we embedded and uploaded onto our blogs. We also used You Tube to upload our own teaser trailer onto it so we could get some feedback on it. I think that You Tube was and easy piece of software as we had already used it in the past. We also used the website Dafont which enabled us to use and look for all the different fonts which we could us for our magazine and poster. I thought that this was a good website to use as it was easy to download the fonts and upload them onto Photoshop.