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

2. Google, YouTube, IMDB, Wikipedia
The internet has been a vital resource through the
production of our film, because it allows me to
research current media and therefore improve my own.
Researching using Google provides me with
information that I needed to consider when making the
film such as, the target audience or the common
conventions that work in the media business today.
YouTube has been very helpful for researching and
analysing current trailers which provided inspiration for
my product. YouTube also aided me in using some of
the computer programs in production. The use of IMDB
which has information about nearly every film has
allowed to try and see if the use of big name
stars, gives the film a better rating in order to use this
in our film by naming the actor which may attract the
audience. This leads to more sales and bigger profits.
Understanding the production process and common
conventions by use of these websites has lead to our
trailer being extensively more improved than it
possibly would have been.

3. Blogger, Slideshare, Facebook
I obviously used blog to record my progress and
display my ideas throughout this project. It has been
very useful for myself to keep track of things I have
done, things I have to do and things I may have done
that I didn’t need. It has been easy to present initial
ideas to people and potentially getting feedback.
Slideshare, I have used to apply my powerpoints to my
blog which has been a great way to present ideas,
research and evaluation. I found it very easy to use
and will use it in the future. I used Facebook to get
feedback from friends and family for both ancillary
products and our trailer. This was very useful because
my friends age are the target audience so being able
to approach them directly really helped towards the
production.

4. Mac computer and Panasonic camera
For filming, we used a Panasonic camera
which was very good for filming because
it had great maneuverability and was
very good quality.
We used the Mac computers for editing
the film and logging and transferring the
clips were very easy on the Panasonic
camera. Using the Macs allowed us to
edit the clips coherently to make the best
possible trailer.

5. Computer programs
Final Cut Express was the main program we used throughout production
because it is where all the clips were edited and sequenced together. It's
where the whole trailer is put together; cuts, effects and transitions
were all added on this program.
Using livetype for my project was not my first experience with it but I was not
very familiar with it. This lead to lots of trial and error practice idents and
intertitles. When I got to grips with it, I found that it was reasonably easy
to use and therefore could make simple intertitles that we needed to
break up some longer clips in our movie trailer.
I only used photoshop once throughout the project which was to crop an
image. I did this using the selection tool which i had used before in
previous subjects so I had a slight understanding of how to use it. This
was useful because it made the job a lot quicker and easier so we could
get on with other things.
I used InDesign for both ancillary products in our project. The program
allows you to arrange text and images in ways that are other programs
do not so that the design is highly professional. The two ancillary
products we did were; a film poster and a magazine front cover.