The document discusses how various media technologies were used at different stages of a film project. In the research stage, the internet and Google were used to research existing film posters, magazines, and teaser trailers. Planning and recording of research was done using an online blog. Photoshop was used to create the poster and magazine, while a DSLR camera was used to film the teaser trailer. Final Cut Pro was then used to edit the trailer footage. Evaluation involved tools like Prezi, PowerPoint, and audience feedback filming to assess the project.

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

2. Research (Film Poster)
Before I could start even planning my own
project I had to research already existing
products and thanks to the Internet this task
wasn't too difficult. I turned to the biggest
search engine there is - Google - and of
course wasn't disappointed. Even if I wasn't
sure what kind of film poster I wanted to make
as long as I had an idea about what genre I
wanted my film to be I could look at already
existing film posters and get inspired

3. Research (Film Magazine)
I did the same when I was researching into
existing film magazines as I did with film
posters. I looked at past covers from
Empire, Film, VUE and Entertainment. It
seemed that all film magazines prefered
showy blockbuster style covers but after
digging a little deeper into the Empire
Magazine I found out that about 10 years
ago they kept their covers pretty chic. I was
able to find out all of this thanks to the
infinite archyves of Google.

4. Research (Teaser Trailer)
The most convienient way to
research already existing teaser
trailers was to look on youtube.
Youtube is the biggest video
streaming website in the world
and therefore if you want your
video to be seen it's an ideal
place for promotion. Romantic
films don't do teaser trailers very
often and tend to go straight to
the 2-3 minute trailers so I had
to look at any teaser trailer I
could find and combine it with
romantic trailers and see what I
could come up with.

5. Planning
All of my planning and research was recorded
with the help of online diary - Blogger. This
way I made sure that everything was in one
place and it didn't recuire any printing,
handwriting or carrying around. Also it reduced
the chances of my work being lost - the minute
I uploaded it to the internet it was archyved in
it's infinite library and I could still possibly find
it. By using blogger I also was able to analyse
trailers which would not be possible if I tried to
keep all of my planning in a skechbook - I
could directly connect the two.
And last thing but not least - my teacher could
keep track of my work whenever they wanted
because it is available at all times.

6. Construction (Poster)
To create my film poster I
used picture manipulating
sofware Photoshop. At
college was able to use
newer Photoshop version but
at home I have CS2 and it
did it's job just as well. My
film poster is pretty
straightforward - two
photographs and variations
of text. I wanted to keep it
simple and clean but still
interesting.
Everytime I didn't know how
to do a certain action I would
go on youtube and look for a
tutorial.

7. Construction (Magazine)
Just as I did with the
construction of my poster I
used Photoshop to create my
Film Magazine. In my opinion
it's the best picture
manipulating software so far
and it allows you to do pretty
much anything you want with
the image. The variety of fonts
was very helpful as well
because it meant I could
express different articles
better and also I could
manipulate the titles in any
way I wanted.

8. Construction (Teaser Trailer)
I had a couple of choices when it came to
filming my teaser trailer. I could use a
professional filming camera, hand
camcorder or a DSLR. It would make
sense to use the professional camera that
the college was able to provide but it was
just so big, heavy and difficult to transport
that I gave up on it. Another option I had
was a hand camcorder but I just didn't like
the quality of it. In the end I decided to try
out a DSLR and altough they were not
made for filming but rather taking
photographs - the lenses were the turning
point. Just by changing lenses I was able
to experiment with different depths of field,
aperture and angles.

9. Construction (Teaser Trailer) #2
To put together all of the clips I
filmed I used video manipulating
software Final Cut Pro. Just like
Photoshop it's one of the best
softwares out there and thankfully
the college had Macs that were
equipped with it. Have to say it's a
very complicated and confusing
software but it can do pretty much
anything you want with your
footage. I can easily say that I didn't
use it to it's full extend but I tried my
best and I am quite pleased with
the final piece.

10. Evaluation Stages
For my evalu ation I used quite a few different
ways to answer each quoestion. I answered
the first question with the help of Prezi - fancy
equivalent to PowerPoint. I made a good use
out of PowerPoint as well and with the help of
SlideShare was able to upload everything onto
my blog. To answer the question about
audience feedback I asked the audience first
hand what they thought and filmed everything
into a short clip. After that I wrote down
everything that I learned from the feedback
and presented it as a part of the 'Evaluation'
page on my blog.