We used a range of media technologies throughout the construction and evaluation of our trailer project. This included: 1) Creating a blog on Wix to display our research, planning, and evaluation. The blog served as a promotional tool. 2) Using photography cameras from our college to take professional photos for the magazine and poster. 3) Researching other trailers, magazines, and posters online using Internet Explorer to help with production. 4) Editing the trailer in Adobe Premiere Pro and photos in Photoshop and After Effects. 5) Filming the trailer using a video camera and different camera angles and effects.

1. QUESTION 4
How did you use media
technologies in the construction
and research, planning and
evaluation stage?

2. We used a range of different media technologies throughout making our
trailer.
In the early stages of constructing our trailer we created a blog on the site
webpage ‘Wix’. We chose Wix as its easy to use and you can display your blog
in a number of different ways.
Our blog is laid out with a navigation bar at the top of the page with drop
down menus from each button, this makes it easy for people to find the way
around our blog.
We use our blog to display all the different parts of our coursework and
explain in detail what we have done and how we have done it, including
research into other trailers, posters and magazines. We also use it to post
behind the scene pictures and videos.
The evaluation of what we have done will also be posted onto our blog.
Our blog is a promotional tool for the poster, magazine, and trailer.

3. Another form of media technology we used was the photography cameras that our college
provided.
We began our coursework with a photo shoot in our college studio for the magazine and the
poster, we used a photography camera to take the pictures so they looked professional.
They have different settings which allowed us to focus on a certain point on the image which
was good when taking pictures of the dream catcher as we could
make sure it was in full focus.
For all the photo-shoot's we did in the future for our coursework we continued to use the digital
photography camera, this aided our products greatly due to the impact they had on
quality, production ease i.e. timing, simplicity of editing and professionalism.

4. Web 2.0 has been used as part of the evaluation of our media products for example we used it
when getting feedback from a wide audience on social media such as Facebook.
We also used internet explorer to research into different trailers, magazines and posters to
help us with the production of our own product.
FACEBOOK FEEDBACK PRINTSCREEN

5. New media technologies have been used also as part of our editing using programs such as
Adobe premier pro to edit our film trailer, after effects and Photoshop which was used to edit
all of our pictures that we used.
In these shot of the eye we used the following
editing techniques to create an effect of the
house in the eye.
• Drop down
• black over new layer
• Feathered
• vignette
• opacity clearer

6. Another part of media technology that we used in the construction of our media
product was the video camera that we shot our trailer on.
We shot the whole trailer on the video camera using different angels and effects
such as zoom to add variation to the shots we took.