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

2. I used a variety of different technologies in creating my media
products from a digital camera to the use of apple Mac computers. I
used web 2.0 technologies to help me conduct my research; I used
websites such as ‘YouTube’ to watch existing media products and
listen to different types of music that I could have used in my trailer.
The website ‘Google’ helped me find images of existing film posters
and magazine covers, which I was able to look at and gain an
understanding of how I could make my poster and magazine cover
look. These helped me with my initial part of my research and lead
me to find out more information about existing products on the
market. The website ‘slideshare’ helped me to upload my completed
products on to my blog, and made them look neatly presented and
easy to read.

3. The technologies that came in useful when I started off doing my
location recce for my main product, the use of the digital Nikon
camera, helped me to be able to establish where I wanted my
location to be set. I used the camera to take pictures of the different
locations I had in mind and then uploaded them images on to the
apple Mac computer to look through and chose the best choice for
my film trailer. I put all of these images together to create my
location recce, this was done so I had an understanding of where
my main product would be filmed, also to help me indentify where
the best location was for my filming to be set.

4. Another use of technology that helped me with my planning stages
was the use of applications such as ‘word’ and ‘excel’ these
applications enabled me to create a shooting schedule for my cast
to follow which was created on ‘word’. I also created my magazine
cover and film poster on ‘word’ on an apple Mac computer which
allowed me to alter both my film poster and magazine cover from
time to time depending on the different feedback I had been given.
My pie charts were created through ‘excel’, without the use of these
technologies I would not have been able to complete my planning
and my main product would have therefore lacked what it needed to
become the trailer I needed to create. I also used a digital Nikon
camera to film my trailer, the digital camera allowed me to use a
wide range of different camera angles. I used the apple Mac
computers when doing the editing part of my film trailer and also
when editing the images I had taken on my camera.

5. I used the application ‘Imovie’ to bring all my shots together and
create the trailer. The features that I used on ‘imovie’ was the
adjustment of the pace I wanted the clips to be at, also on ‘imovie’ I
used applications which allowed me to cut clips so I didn’t have to
show any mistakes I had made when filming. I was also able to
change the sound that I wanted in my trailer as I could cut certain
parts of music that I didn’t want the audience to hear, this made my
trailer look and sound professional. I used ‘iphoto’ to edit the photos
that I had taken of the character ‘grettle’ this application allowed me
to change the colours that I wanted to be shown through the image I
was portraying of the character. For example the image that I used
on my film poster originally showed the characters eyes to be brown
however through the ‘iphoto’ application I was able to adjust the
eyes to look green.

6. In my research stages of production I used websites such as ‘facebook’ to
help me gain feedback on my products through uploading my questionnaire
and asking for people to fill it in. I also uploaded images of my film poster
and magazine cover to gain feedback on what was good about them but
also on how I could improve them. This website helped me in a major way
as it was able to get the information fast, rather then taking time to print
each product and waste time handing and collecting the information.
Throughout creating my research and planning I have been constantly
updating my blogger account, with new information and images.This
account has made it easy for me to share my products with other blogger
users and also my teacher and class. Without blogger I would not have
been able to show the improvements that I have made to each of my
products and as to how I made my final decisions. I have used a variety of
different technologies in my final evaluation as I wanted to keep people
interested in what I was talking about, in order to do this I have chose to use
PowerPoint for some of my questions. I have also used a voiceover and
images on ‘imovie’ to present other questions from the evaluation.