The document discusses the use of media technologies in the construction, research, planning, and evaluation of a project. For research and planning, the author used YouTube and Google Images to find examples of successful trailers, posters, and magazines in order to determine design elements and layouts. Trailers on YouTube provided examples of elements like comedy, horror, and action to incorporate. When creating products like a trailer, magazine, and poster, the author used techniques in Adobe Premiere and After Effects for video editing and title screens, and tools in Photoshop like effects, glows, and adjustments to eye color. For evaluation, the author used a blog and social media to get feedback from classmates

1. How did you use media technology with
the construction, research, planning and
evaluation stages?
Section A
For my research and planning, I used media technologies to find out what had
previously been done and how that was a success. I looked through lots of trailers to
see how the professionals constructed them, a lot of posters to find the
right, stereotypical layout and a few posters to see what common characteristics
appeared in the majority of them. For this, YouTube and Google Images came in
handy quite a lot.
For the trailers, I looked through a few YouTube trailers and picked out a few that I
thought were quite good, with elements of comedy, horror and action. This set out all
the pinpoints for what I wanted in my trailer and gave me a look at what a variety of
the angles would be like. There is links located below to a few of the ones that
influenced me.

2. Section B
When creating my products, I used a variety of different techniques to
create them. This can be seen in the way that the entire trailer has been
edited in beat with the sound and how the clips fade from a range of
lightings. I done the majority of this on Adobe Premier. I tried out multiple
title screens with Adobe After Effects but couldn’t make it work to how I
desired. For this, we ended up using a more basic version for our text and
inter titles.
For my magazine and poster, I had to add custom blood packs to it so that
I would get a better effect. I changed most of the text to have an effect, and
the main image of the magazine cover has an outer glow around the main
model. I done this because I believed it gave them more of a distorted look
to the rest of the layout, making them the centre of attention. The rule of
thirds was used here, as the eye is drawn towards the light on a darker
screen and then makes that the focus point of the viewer.
When doing my poster, I wasn’t fond of the eye colour being regular, but
just painting over it didn’t seem right either. I selected the area I wanted
with the Lasso tool and then re-selected the iris to remove it. From there, I
played around with the hue/saturation and lighting of it to give it a
stereotypical horror look. Some suggestions for this were to add more
noticeable veins, but after trying it I decided not to go with that.

3. Section C
When evaluating my product, I used a variety of different media techniques for this.
The main one that was used was my A2 media blog. This is where it was most likely to be
found and was also where it needed to be. I emailed classmates and friends out of class and
asked their opinions on what they thought about improvements, the links to our media trailer
were out on YouTube and could be linked with the title there, so more people would look at it.
As this was not a proper advertising campaign, there wasn’t too much media being used to
distribute information about this. If it was a proper production, a lot more products such as
social networking sites, adverts, promotional contests through the internet would have been
used.
Here are a few of the sites I’ve used, along
with more that I would use in a full production.