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

2. Research

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. Add in image of google images
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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Planning

10. 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
Image of microsoft powerpoint improving and changing.
needed

11. 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.
I ended up using the canon ixus 95
Include image camera which was really simple to use
of canon ixus and this enabled me to take my pictures
95 quickly and upload it onto the mac ready
to be imported in a sequence on final
cut.

12. • Include scanner to put storyboards and that in

13. Construction

14. 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.

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

16. 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

17. 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
photoshop how to get my desired effects such
changing backgrounds, it also gave me
inspiration for some of my own ideas.
Which tools did you use most? Quick selection tool, etc

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

19. Evaluation

20. 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.

21. Facebook, etc used for audience feedback