Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Youtube ResearchI conducted research through YouTube to watch other soap trailers. By

watching other trailers this gave me the inspiration for the scenes in my own soap and what I should include in my own trailer.

I made a YouTube account so that I could upload my own trailers and post them on the website. From here I could share my videos and embed them into my blog.

iMacsThe use of the iMacs enabled the group to edit the footage we

had captured and create each trailer. iMovie was significant to the creation of the trailer, it enabled us to edit all aspects of the footage including the sound. Everything could be produced in one place using a professional program. We could also use the iMovie feature to edit the sound of the trailer this included adding a soundtrack and ducking/increasing the sound.

SoundtrackTo get the music we wanted to use for our trailer we first had to use

YouTube to find a song that we liked and thought would work well.

From here we would then have to copy and past the YouTube link into a video ripping site to retrieve the audio.

I used the website www.youtube-mp3.org to rip the audio.

We then had to paste the link into the website where the video audio was changed to mp3 so it could be downloaded.