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

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

2. Equipment used in the project: Camera and tripod Mac computer We filmed the trailer on a small handheld camera, using a tripod where appropriate. We then uploaded the footage to a Mac computer to edit it and upload it to the internet.

3. The next few slides will go through, step-by-step the four different stages (research, planning, construction, evaluation), and will show the different media technologies used in each stage. The media technologies will be presented and numbered in a spider diagram, followed by an explanatory slide that describes why and how each technology was used. The media technology listed in the diagram can be linked to the explanation by following the numbering system.

5. RESEARCH: 1. Yahoo was used as a search engine during the research stage, as was Bing (6.) and Google (2.), which was useful for a number of reasons. Firstly, it was our primary search engine. Secondly, Google images (3.) helped us to find screenshots and posters from films for cinematography and poster inspiration, respectively. 7. Flickr and Photobucket (9.) are image sites and helped use with this also. 8. IMDb was also useful in the research stage. It is a site specialising in providing essential information on films. It was a valuable tool for finding facts on films such as the release date, which was needed during the research stage. 4. Lastly, video sites such as YouTube and Google videos (5.) were used to view real media products, acquire trailers for trailer inspiration, as well as scenes and extracts for scene inspiration.

7. PLANNING 1. Google shopping was used during the research stage to help us determine where we would buy our props from, such as fake blood. 2. Google maps was useful in helping us to find locations for filming during the location scouting part of the planning stage. 3. Finally, Google, Yahoo (4.) and Bing (5.) were used as search engines during the planning stage.

9. CONSTRUCTION 1. The iMovie programme on the Mac was what we used to edit our media product. It was the predominant media technology used during the editing stage of construction. 2. Dreamweaver MX was used during the construction of the web page. I had experience with this programme last year. 3. Photoshop was used to create the production poster, along with the Microsoft Paint tool.

11. EVALUATION: 1. Facebook was a social networking site that we used to post our final finished product on. We then received audience feedback to evaluate. Blogger (2.) also has a feedback tool, which allows viewers to comment on what we produced in the posts. 3. This website allowed me to create a graph in order to facilitate the answering of evaluative questions. I also used Microsoft Word to create tables. 4. This site helped to create slideshows like this one to use in the evaluation questions. PowerPoint (6.) was used to create a slideshow before it was converted into a slideshow that can be embedded onto a blog using the aforementioned web site.