Melissa Mitchell used various media technologies in each stage of constructing, researching, planning, and evaluating her media package on anorexia. In the construction stage, she used Photoshop to create a film poster and magazine cover, Final Cut Pro to edit together a trailer, and Picmonkey and a camera to capture footage and images. In research, she used Google to find information on anorexia symptoms and influences. Planning utilized mood boards in Photoshop and presentations in Prezi, PowerPoint, and Emaze. Evaluation was done by uploading videos and information to YouTube and Blogger.

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Evaluation: How did you use media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and evaluation stage?
Melissa Mitchell

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Construction

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 On the next slide I will individually go through 3 media
technologies which I used to construct my media package
1. Photoshop – Film Poster and Magazine Cover
2. Final Cut pro - Trailer
3. Picmonkey – Magazine Cover
4. Camera & Tri-pod - Trailer
 These media technologies helped me to create my piece and
without one or the other my package wouldn’t be the same they
were essential to my whole project

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Picmonkey
Picmonkey was used to
construct the first stages of
my magazine cover with the
posterize theme. It gave my
magazine cover the edge it
needed to look realistic.
Before After
As little white lies often have hand drawn or
magazine covers I decided to use an edit called
Posterize which transforms the image to a
poster version which makes it looked drawn

5. + Photoshop Photoshop
helped to
create my
magazine and
film poster.
MAGAZINE COVER
FILM POSTER
Photoshop was used to create
my film poster
1. Helped me edit the image
making my characters skin
much more paler and red lips
stand out much more
2. It helped me by putting the
font on and being able to
match the colour to her lips
using the eyedropper tool on
photoshop to the colour of the
font
3. It helped me to be able to
organise the placement of my
title and credits in the
fashionable appeal
1. It helped me put on the
magazine logo and center it
in the middle of my picture to
make it look like a much
more natural magazine cover
2. Helped me to put our film title
and credits on and fade them
into my piece
3. Helped me to add a
heartbeat into the dying to be
skinny and to fade it in. this
was to relate the title to my
theme of anorexia and the
fact that my main character
might not keep her life

6. + Final Cut Pro
Final Cut pro was useful in editing my trailer and
making it look like a professional film trailer
1. Music – Final cut pro enabled me to edit my music
into the correct places so the sound could match
what was happening on screen. It also enabled
my piece to provoke emotion at certain times by
adding in sad music and hen happy music
2. Cutting clips – Helped me to edit out clips which
were not needed in my piece due to it having
sound issues or other issues.
3. Making it look professional – I done this by adding
in the age rating at the beginning and mentioning
the sundance film festival making it look like an
official film trailer. I also added in reviews from
people to make the trailer look established
4. Voice over – Helped me to make our voice over
louder and quieter at certain points in my film and
also put it at the right places so it could have it’s
necessary impact

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Camera + Tri-pod
Camera and tri-pod were the most
important in constructing my media
piece. The camera was able to take the
photos of my main character for the
magazine cover and film poster. It was
also essential in filming my piece and
getting the footage to be edited.
Without this my whole media piece
would be unable to be created.

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Research

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Google
I used google for similar logo designs
on nature, similar film posters and for
magazine posters along the lines of
little white lies to see what previous
covers have looked like.
Google was essential for
researching facts for my media
project, as my trailer was based
on an eating disorder and the
effects of having one and it was
based on truth events I needed
my film to be as realistic as
possible.
I used google to research into
symptoms of anorexia and to even find
documentary’s on anorexia so I can
see first hand accounts of the eating
disorder.
I also used google to find my
influences for real media to
find films that are based on
anorexia which I could take
influence from.

10. + IMDB
I done this by not tying down
my character to gender
specific colours like pink and
by making the dialogue not
include slang or words that
only young people would be
able to understand this meant
that my film was open to
everyone to enjoy.
IMDB was important for
research into my target
audience. I used this to
research into the films
that I took influence
from and looked into
the reviews to see who
was interested via
gender and age.
Originally I assumed that only under 18 girls
would be interested in my trailer however looking
at statistics from other films similar to mine such
as Trust made me notice that was not just the
case
I noticed my trailer was
more a four quadrat film
was essential as it meant
that I decided to open up
my piece by not making it
too gender specific or age
specific.

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Planning

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Photoshop
I made a similar mood
board for when I was
creating my film poster,
this was important as
from this I was able to
help plan my piece by
picking out media
conventions in film
posters to films which
were similar to mine.
From this the accuracy
of my piece rose making
it look much more like a
professional media
package.
Photoshop was helpful in helping
me to combine all my ideas onto
moodboards. I firstly used it to get
ideas for my genre and combined
images similar to eating disorders
on it including food, specific tv
shows such as my mad fat diary
and even book covers.
This helped me gain
understanding of what I
was about to create as I
was able to look at things
which were similar to mine
via genre and theme.

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iPhone 6/HTC One Mini
Both these phone devices were used during the research and
planning firstly to take photos of the props which were important
step before filming. It was important to organise what was going to
be used in my piece so it would minimise the confusion during
filming.
These devices also took pictures of my costume and actress shots which
helped me plan who was going to be in my piece and what they were
going to wear

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Prezi
I used Prezi to present my research in an animated way
I was able to write
everything in an
organised fashion.
Especially in
particularly
magazine cover
research. I used
the prezi to help
me debate and
plan which
magazine cover
company I should
use

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Powerpoint + Emaze
I used powerpoint and emaze to present my
research and planning.
I used slideshare to be able to put my powerpoint into my blog.
This media technology was essential as without it my powerpoints
wouldn’t of been able to be uploaded onto my blog
Emaze was useful
in making my
powerpoints ‘come
to life’ in a certain
aspect it made the
usual boring
powerpoint look
interesting. It was
useful in
organizing my
information
I used these
platforms to
organise my logo
research and my
research into what
ia a teaser trailer.
With Emaze I
researched into
insidious

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Evaluation

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Youtube
Youtube was important in my research and planning
as I used it to post videos which would help plan
and organise elements of my film. For example my
logo animation was uploaded and my other tries.
Which helped me to plan which one I would use
I also used youtube for research. I
found my logo background on a youtube
clip and downloaded it and edited it into
my logo
I also used youtube to watch videos on
anorexia and people talking about
there experiences and journey with this
eating disorder
Youtube is also
where I will
post my
evaulation
videos

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Blogger
Blogger was the most important technology
as it was were I organised my work and all my
research. I used it to post all my information
so it was useful in all stages. Especially
evaluation as it is the platform in which I am
posting my evaluations onto