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

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


For the research and planning side of our production, I used the Internet to find out about other similar products. I used google images and different websites to find out about other magazine front cover and posters for the horror genre. This gave me some ideas for when it came to doing our ancillary tasks. For our main production I youtubed first different genre trailer, however then narrowed it down to the horror genre and youtubed horror trailers to find out what worked, what didn't, what were the forms and conventions and what made the trailer scary. I used the blog to present all of my findings.
I used Microsoft word to create the questionnaire. I did different boxes and lines - which were easiest done on Microsoft word. I also used this to create the table for my progression plan.
To create the graphs for the results of the questionnaire, I used an online website - where all I had to do was input the data found out, then it would create the graphs for me. This was a great help and was easy to use.


For the construction we used two different cameras to film it with, to get different camera angles on the same shot. When it came to doing the lighting in the dark we used a simple but effective way - I have an iPhone and Tyler who was helping us has a htc, we both had torches on there so put them on and moved them about. They worked really well.
Once we had all of our shots we had to put them together. For this we used elements. This was easy to use and had great effects which we could use. We mainly used the fades, to fade clips in and out. This also helped when it came to adding the audio and sound effects. The audio was separate. So we got rid of all of the background noise and the background speech we had, and added in the audio separately.  When it came to doing the sound effects, we got them off of Youtube and added them in the same way - using the audio lines.
When it came to doing the ancillary tasks, we used Photoshop to create both of them. It was simple to do as you have the layer tool, which meant you did have to do it all in the correct order.
As we did all of this we used the blog to help us, and posted our work on here for people and teachers to see.

                                             
For the evaluation, it was mainly just the blog I used. I posted my work on here as I did it and also I could look at peoples work from last year and what they did to get ideas to help me answer the questions. Also this shows the dates so I know I have to do about 3 posts a weeks, and if I don't my teacher can see and pull me up on it.