The student used various media technologies at different stages of their research project. In the research stage, they used Google, YouTube, and IMDb to research trailers, posters, and magazine covers. To present their research findings, they created Prezi and SlideShare presentations. They used iMovie to construct their magazine covers. In planning their final product, they created storyboards on StoryboardThat and used Photoshop to design mock posters and magazines. To construct their main product and ancillary texts, they used Final Cut Pro, GarageBand, Motion, Photoshop, and Wix. They uploaded their finished film trailer to YouTube and chose SlideShare and Prezi for their evaluation presentation.

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

2. When completing my research I used different technologies to present my research and complete
my research. In order for me to research trailers, posters and magazine covers I used google,
youtube and IMDb these are sites which are easy to use.
To present my research I used media technologies such as prezi and slide share as these
websites are used for presentations. They are easy to use and make everything look a lot more
presentable I decided to use these media technologies as they are easy to navigate and can
present my research simply.

3. These are the media technologies I used for researching posters and trailers, for my magazine
covers I decided to use iMovie, a media technology which again is fast and easy to use simply
presenting what I have researched.
In my planning process however I started to use more media technologies which took a lot more
time and concentration. I used different media technologies such as Slide share, Storyboardthat,
Photoshop and iMovie.
When my group and I started to plan and write up our narrative we decided to create a story board
on a website called story board that. This was better than drawing out a story board by hand and
scanning it onto my blog as storyboardthat allows you to upload the storyboard onto slide share.

4. I used photoshop to plan the way in which I was going to create my final film poster and film
magazine cover. I made a mock poster and magazine to get used to the tools on photoshop and
work on different ways I could present my work.
These are my mock magazine cover and film poster.

5. When constructing my main product and ancillary texts I used a lot of media technologies including final cut pro,
garage band, motion, live type, photoshop, pic monkey, wix.com.
Final cut pro, motion and garage band are all the media technologies I used when constructing my main product.
I started by putting all of my footage onto final cut pro and put all of the footage I wanted to include onto the timeline.
once all of my footage was on the timeline and where i wanted it I started to look at effects I could add to the clips .
I looked at the effects available on final cut pro, and decided to add a ‘fade in/out’ effect on several of my clips in the
timeline.
Once I had added the effects I felt suited the genre and film trailer the best I wanted to start looking at different foley
sounds I could add on to the sequence in order to create ambience and atmosphere. To insert foley sounds I found
them on garage band and sent them to iTunes as a song, once it had converted I placed it into the sequence where
I wanted it to go.
Once the footage, foley sounds and effects had all been added into the sequence, I started looking at creating inter
titles. I started to construct the inter titles using motion. Motion is software, were you can create different titles,
adding effects, fonts. This did take me time to figure out but I figure from using the motion library I could simply add
effects to my inter titles.

6. When creating my film poster I used photoshop, for both the mock poster and the real poster I
used different layers, tools and techniques to create the best film magazine I could.
Here I had used hue/saturation to change the effect on the image of my main character, I wanted
to make the image darker than usually as I was trying to make the film poster look as much like a
thriller as possible.
I created another layer, and made this layer clouds. Once I had added the clouds I had moved it
around to look more like dark fog or smoke, which is common in thriller films.

7. Once I had got the cloud image to look like dark smoke I placed the image of the protagonist back
on top of the layer and this is the image I got. I had then created some rectangular shapes to get
the black lines obstructing the image, then I added the typography and my final film poster was
complete.

8. To construct my film magazine I used the same media technology, photoshop. I had created a
simple black layer and placed my cropped image of the main character on top.
I realised I wanted the characters head to slightly obstruct the masthead, which I had seen in film
magazines prior to constructing my own. I created another layer and put the mast head layer
underneath the character layer.
I simply added more text and positioned the sub headings, just like how I had seen when
researching film magazine covers. My final magazine cover looked like this…

9. To publish my film trailer I uploaded it onto youtube, youtube is a worldwide website where billions
of videos are posted. Youtube is an easy way to watch trailer and teaser trailers as the internet is a
part of peoples every day lives, millions of people use Youtube which makes uploading film trailer
a cheap, fast and very effective way to market a film.
For my Evaluation I have chosen to use slide share and prezi presentations as they are easy and
creative to present my ideas.

10. To publish my film trailer I uploaded it onto youtube, youtube is a worldwide website where billions
of videos are posted. Youtube is an easy way to watch trailer and teaser trailers as the internet is a
part of peoples every day lives, millions of people use Youtube which makes uploading film trailer
a cheap, fast and very effective way to market a film.
For my Evaluation I have chosen to use slide share and prezi presentations as they are easy and
creative to present my ideas.