Vishal Panwar used various media technologies at different stages of his film project. In the research stage, he used YouTube to find short horror films and Blogger to annotate findings. For poster research, he used Google to find posters and Word to annotate them. Film reviews were researched using Google and annotated in PowerPoint. The film was recorded using a Panasonic camera but some clips required a backup Sony phone. Storyboards were drawn, photographed, edited in Paint and Word. The film was initially edited in Movie Maker but issues prompted a switch to Premier Pro. The poster was created in Photoshop and the review in Fireworks.

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

2. Research: Film
 For my researching stage for the film I used two types of media
technologies. I used YouTube which is a website where you can
watch any video to search for short horror films. I typed in the search
engine ‘short horror film’ and I was presented with a few short horror
which I could choose from. I used this technology because it was I
knew that I will find a good quality short horror film on here. This was
an effective website because I found good quality short horror films
which I would gain massive knowledge from.
 To collate my findings I used Blogger. I felt this was not the best
method to collate my findings. This is because I was unable to make
any arrows if I wanted to point at a specific element on the scene on
the short horror film. The only solution for me was to write the
annotations under the screenshot I took.

3. Research: Poster
 For my researching stage I used two types of media technologies. To
search for the posters I used the internet, Google to be more precise and
to annotate the posters I used Word document. I used the internet by
using the search engine ‘Google’ and I typed in the search bar ‘horror
film posters’. I used this method because it was quick, easy and cost
effective. The internet was successful as I was able to obtain a different
range of horror film posters.
 To annotate the posters I liked, I used Microsoft Word. I enlarged the
poster in the middle of the page, allowing space on the outside to write
the annotations. I used this technique because it was the most
appropriate method to annotate an A4 document. This technique was
successful because it allows me to use arrows to point out specific
elements on a poster. To present my findings on to blogger, I used
Scribed. On here I was able to upload my word document and embed it
on to blogger.

4. Research: Review
 For my researching stage I used two types of media technologies. To
search for the film reviews I used the internet, Google to be more precise
and to annotate the reviews I used PowerPoint. I used the internet by
using the search engine ‘Google’ and I typed in the search bar ‘film
reviews’. I used this method because it was quick, easy and cost
effective. The internet was successful as I was able to obtain a different
range of film reviews.
 To annotate the film reviews I used Microsoft PowerPoint. I enlarged the
posters in the middle of the landscape page and annotated around it. It
made sense to use PowerPoint because I was annotating double page
spreads which were landscape and PowerPoint was also landscape. I
used this technique because it was the most appropriate method to
annotate an A2 document. This technique was successful because it
allows me to use arrows to point out specific elements on a review. To
present my PowerPoint document, I used an external website called
PowerShow.com. This was effective because users can play, pause and
fast-forward the slides if they want to.

5. Filming
 To record our film we used the Panasonic HDC- HS350 camera. I
was responsible for recording the film so I took the camera out
before starting the filming and made myself familiar with it. I held
the camera in my right hand and placed my left hand under the
camera and the ‘record’ button to start filming. The camera did
not have many difficult features which mean that it was easy to
use. This gave me better control of the camera. This camera was
successful when filming as it delivered high quality videos.
 However, the camera’s battery died at one point during the
filming. This meant that we had to use the best alternative which as
a Sony Xperia Z1. This was particular successful as the quality of the
clips were poor. This was not effective in our film most of the film’s
quality was good but we had two clips with bad quality which
made the film look unprofessional.

6. Storyboards
 To create storyboard I initially drew them out on paper. I then
took pictures of them and uploaded the image to Microsoft
paint so I could crop it and insert it in Microsoft word for me to
annotate them. Using paint was effect because I was able the
‘selection tool’ and draw a rectangle around the particular
storyboard and isolate each of the scenes in the storyboard.
 I then used Microsoft Word to annotate the storyboard. I was
able to add the scenes from my storyboard and write under
them which was effective. I then uploaded it to Scribd and
embedded it ion to my blog.

7. Editing
 To make the first two drafts of the film we used Movie Marker due to its
simplicity. We knew its I features because we had experience with this
software in the past. However, editing the film in Movie Maker was not
effective because the clips had a second pause between each other
which led to it looking unprofessional.
 We solved this issue by editing the film in a higher quality software called
Adobe Premier Pro CS6. We had to watch many YouTube tutorials to gain
knowledge on how to use this software. We were able to make use of its
features such as editing the light in ‘lighting effect’. Using this feature we
were able to add a red effect to the scene where the ghost appears.
Editing in Premier was more effecting as the clips and transitions were
smooth.

8. Poster
 To create the poster I used Adobe Photoshop CS6. The reason
for that is I have used this software many times in the past and I
was familiar with what each of the tools do. This software
enabled me to edit the picture in all sorts of ways. Firstly I used
the ‘transformation’ tool to enlarge the image I wanted to use
so it fits the page. Doing this I was able to make Kaylah’s
expressions the focus of the poster. I was able make it black and
white, add a grain texture effect and make it dark around the
border. I did all this by using different ‘layers’. That is the reason
why I used this software. Using Photoshop was successful
because my poster turned out looking professional.

9. Review
 To create the film review I used Adobe Fireworks CS6. I had to
used this software before, so I wanted to try out a new software.
To gain knowledge on this, I watched many YouTube tutorials to
teach myself. This software enabled me to add images, text and
shapes using tools such as such as ‘star tool’ and the ‘rectangle
tool’ to make the review look professional. This was a successful
method as my review turned out to be professional.