1. Throughout Media A2, myself and my work partner have used multiple media technologies in order
to complete our coursework some example are Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, YouTube, Weebly, Blogger,
Cameras, Tripods and more. These various media technologies allowed us to film our film trailer,
create our film poster and magazine cover and overall post our work so that others can follow the
progress of our work.
During the Research and Planning stages of our media project we used a site called Prezi, this site
allows us to create multimedia presentations in order to discuss different aspects of both horror
films and comedy films. We also came across a useful website, Pearl and Dean which shows us the
statistics of different films such as the Age, Gender and Class of those who watched the films.
YouTube was a very popular media technology that we used to complete some of our Research and
Planning as we needed to review the conventions used in popular horror films so we could get an
understanding of what we needed to apply into our trailer. Not only were we able to review existing
horror films for inspiration, we also were able to research the film trailers that we previously
analysed.
During the construction stage of our trailer, we decided it was best to use a basic Camera to record
and a Tripod in order to use different angles in our trailer. Once we finished using the Camera and
Tripod we began to edit our clips with a well known new media technology called Final Cut Pro X
which allowed us to edit, crop and add special effects and music to the scenes. The benefit of having
this software is that we can apply effects so that we could attract a larger amount of our target
audience.
By having to create a film poster and magazine front cover, we thought it would be best to use
Adobe Photoshop as it has the best editing software and is often used to create productions and
photos. There are many tools to available which we used to crop the photo and place it onto the
page and they all became useful to create a film poster and magazine cover.
Finishing our coursework with an Evaluation we used Prezi as a multimedia presentation to explain
how we completed all our work. The Prezi allowed us to answer the evaluation questions in a clearer
presentation so that more of the multimedia was used in a much more conventional way.