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

Media Technologies were used throughout our project for all the sections that brought together our final production, this included research, planning and evaluation.

For our planning the media site we used the most was youtube.

Youtube is an extremally popular site used worldwide. We used this site to explore the genres and the conventions of the other genres. It was also really useful to look at the types of setting,costume and props used so that we could get an idea of how to construct our trailer. Youtube was also used in our evaluation stages as we posted our trailer to the site to get audience feedback. We did this because it allowed us to gain feedback from poeple all over the world, not jsut in our immediate community. Although this wasnt as successful as we had hoped it was still intresting to see how many views we got.

The website http://www.google.com/ was used throughout our production we used this to collect research look at other products and for general information use.

http://dafont.com/ the well known website font provider website was also a great help to us throughout the final stages of our production. This website combined with google and youtube allowed us to research and try out the conventional fonts for a trailer/ film poster and magazine front cover. When using da font we also used

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when trying out fonts we print screened them into paint, this then allowed us to crop and cut the font we wanted, and then we could place them into microsoft word and compare them.

To create the magazine and poster and also edit the images we used a combination of three programmes. These were Indesign, photoshop and paint.

In design was where each of the products were made and put together. This software was the base of each product and this allowed us to plan our ideas and

Movie plus five was the main part of our trailer production as this is where the trailer was actually constructed. In movie plus we inserted each of the shots and put them together to create our trailer, we then put music in and overlayed effects such as slow motion, fades and flashes. Without this technologie our tailer wouldn't have been possible.

Obviously to film our actual trailer we needed to use a video camera, this technologie was a fairly simple piece of equipment which allowed us to film different types of shots e.g. close up, night vision and just a normal long shot.

Facebook the worldwide social networking site was also used within our project, we used it to get general research, it helped us look at our age group in society today to see who to aim our trailer at. We then used it later in the project to post our video on for people to see. This allowed us to gather audience feedback from people our age group which is who the trailer it aimed at.

It is apparent that each bit of the construction process would have not been possible without the use of media technologies. These helped us plan construct and complete our production.