Garage Band is software used to create music by combining preloaded audio and instruments to make original songs and recordings. It helped the author create backup music and sounds for a trailer by providing a wide variety of options. The author found it most useful for their needs compared to other software like Audacity. Photoshop is an image editing software used by students and professionals to manipulate photos by adjusting brightness, contrast, and cropping. The author used it throughout their coursework to create things like film posters and magazine covers. Final Cut Pro is video editing software used to add videos, images, and audio imported from other software to create a trailer following conventions like synchronized sound and horror film filters. It allowed the author

1. Garage Band
Garage band is a software used to create music. The software comes with
preloaded audio that allows you to combine songs and even make your own
music by the use of different instruments as well as own voice recordings.
Garage band has helped me make my own back up music to link in with the
teaser trailer I have produced to synchronise with my trailer because there
were a wide variety of sounds that I can choose from that were already on the
software. I believe that Garage Band was the most useful software when it
came down to making the sound for our trailer as with other software such as
Audacity it is more complex and doesn’t justify to the purpose of what you
want it to be like.

2. Photoshop
Photoshop is a software used to edit images. This is another professional
software used not just by students but also in real media companies like
magazines. With Photoshop I have used this throughout the coursework. From
creating film posters and front cover magazines to producing a institutional logo
company. Photoshop has helped me manipulate images to use for my front
cover magazine and film poster by being able to change the brightness and
contrast level of the photo and crop.

3. Final Cut Pro
Final Cut pro is a non-linear video editing software, that are specifically used on
Apple. Many people use this to create a professional outcome of their product, as it
shows a very sleek outcome that none of the other software's can offer. With this
software, I have used this towards the very end after my research and planning. It
has enabled me to add videos, images and audio in my trailer. The build up was very
important as I needed to plan out carefully of how I was going to record the scenes
and whether I was going to use typical conventions or challenge them. I had to
research significant codes such as the sounds as It needed to synchronise with the
trailer, as well as using filters that you would generally see in horror films. I believe
that final cut pro has given its potential to show how good this software is as with
the trailer that we as a group have produced showed typical conventions of horror
trailer like the flickering on the screen which would sense the audience the ideal
genre of the film. The software allows you to import files that were made from other
software's such as my audio from grange band and intertitles that were made on
Photoshop.

4. Slide Share
Slide share is an online site that allows you to post files onto a PowerPoint that
you can post through blogs such as this one right here. I have not only used this
for my A2 Coursework but also throughout my AS. It has allowed me to post
works that I have done on Microsoft word as well as PowerPoint.

5. YouTube
YouTube is an online video sharing. I have used YouTube to convert my videos
that I have taken from my phone either of feedback focus group or drafts from
my teaser trailer. This is really helpful as it shows a visual feedback of what my
demographics thought about the product rather than me interpreting what they
said. The comments are more accurate as I could replay back to the things they
have said.