Question 4: how did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

1. A2 Media: Advanced portfolio
Question 4:
How did you use media
technologies in the construction
and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
By Alex Warner

2. Media Technologies Used
Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
UPDATED SCREEN SHOT
OF BLOG
Throughout this project me and my media group used
many different media products & technologies to present
our research, planning, construction and evaluation for
our advanced portfolio. These include such media
technologies like Photoshop, thing link, prize, Pinterset
and many other media software types as well as some
media hardware's including the different equipment we
used to film our trailer.
Examples:
We uploaded and presented all of our research, planning, construction and evaluation
for our advanced portfolio on our blog: http://you-arent-el.blogspot.co.uk/

3. Research
Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Analysing different Trailer,
Magazine covers and Film posters
As first initial research for our project, we all decided to watch some and research different original
media texts to give us inspiration. We analyzed a series of different coming of age film trailers, movie
posters and magazine covers.
Blogger Slide ShareI used for: I used for:
Initial
Trailer
research
Mainstream
and
independent
film magazine
comparison
Simplifying
Trailers: This
is England
Trailer
This is
England
trailer
analysis
I used
blogger to
post some of
my initial
research as
well as write
and analyse
different
original
media texts
I used slide share to post my ‘this
is England analysis’ that I
originally made on PowerPoint
and then uploaded to slide share.
Slide share allows a PowerPoint
presentation to be viewed online
after embedding it.

4. Research
Q4: How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Alex Odam
Analysing different Trailer,
Magazine covers and Film posters
Thinglink PreziI used for: I used for:
Hover over and
the analysis
appears
I used thing link to analyse the
‘little white lies, this is
England’ magazine cover. Thing
link work by making small
points on a photo or video
allowing the interpreter to
however over certain parts that
let a paragraph of text appear
showing my analysis of each
part I used prezi for my ‘this is England film analysis’ this allowed
me to show and explain each part of the poster individually.

5. Research
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Further research into the theme, genre and
style of real media texts for inspiration
I also underwent some further research into the theme, genre and style of other real media texts to link
with our films ‘coming of age’ genre and the theme of our film being about a protagonist dealing with
multiple personality disorder.
YouTube I used for:
Edgar Wright
- How to Do
Visual
Comedy
Pinterest
I used for:
I used Youtube as a
research tool by
watching different
videos and trailers for
inspiration and ideas. I
used it espliaily for
learning the visual
comedy techniques of
director Edgar wright
I made a pinterest
page and collected
different
photographs, videos
and gifs that
inspired me and
linked to our theme
and genre giving us
inspiration towards
our film poster and
magazine cover

6. Planning
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
During the planning stages of this project we used a
range of different media technologies to plan for our
final outcomes.
We had many different decisions about our coursework both face to face and using different
communication medias. We also noted down a lot of our ideas on paper and scanned in our evidence
Blogger Whatsapp/emailI used for:
Initial
Ideas for film
Plan/ twitter
pitch ideas
I used blogger to post some of our initial ideas for our
trailer as well as rough doodles and ideas for our portfolio
To communicate and talk about our ideas
between lessons we used whatsapp and
different email websites to send links, work
and ideas to each other

7. Construction
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
H A R D W A R E S
Throughout construction of our coursework we
used a wide range of different hardware's and
software's to help make our final outcomes
V i d e o c a m e r a s T r i p o d s / T r a c k s
Canon eos 70d Canon eos
1100d
50mm lens
(macro)18-135mm
lens (zoom)
We used two
different cameras
for our
production of our
trailer. We
prodomently used
the 70d as it had
a flip out monitor
as well as having
better picture
quality compared
to the 1100d
which we used for
close ups and pull
focus shots
As well as video cameras we also used tripod and tracks
throughout the production. We used the tracks in many
different scenes to give our trailer a sense of depth and to
make still establishing shots more interesting and enticing for
the audience.

8. Construction
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
H A R D W A R E S
Throughout construction of our coursework we
used a wide range of different hardware's and
software's to help make our final outcomes
A u d i o r e c o r d i n g L i g h t i n g
We used an audio recorder at many
different stages of our production.
Including the recording of
background sound for some scenes as
well as small sound effect parts such
as when Mya is typing/hacking into
the computer and also recording
Razias voice over for the trailer.
We used a range of different lights and
lighting techniques during production
including a small box light that fits
ontop of the camera as well as using
the drama room facilities and using the
different coloured lights and filters they
have

9. Construction
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
S O F T W A R E S
Throughout construction of our coursework we
used a wide range of different hardware's and
software's to help make our final outcomes
I M O V I E A D O B E P R E M I E R
We edited the large majority of
our trailer on iMovie using
different cutting, cropping,
speeding up and using different
titles over video as well as
making the slates between each
sequence
We also used adobe premier to
edit and splice a range of
different clips together allowing
three different shots of Mya to be
in one frame. We also made our
titles for our film on adobe
premier too

10. Evaluation
How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?
Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4
Slide ShareBloggerPreziPiktochart
At the end of the advanced portfolio we where
asked to evaluate each part of our advanced
portfolio
For my evaluation I used a white range of different media technologies to present my work such as:
For question 1 I used
Piktochart to display my
evaluation. Piktochart is a
great and easy to use tool
that allows the user to use
different graphics and design
styles to display and interact
with the work/information
For question 2 I made a
vendiagram on prezi which
compared all three of the
media products we had to
make and shows how each
one links with each other
For question 3 I wrote up my
evaluation of the audience
feedback and added
different links and photos
onto the post
For question 4 (this question)
I made a slide share
document by originally
making a PowerPoint
document and then
uploading and embedding it
onto slide share