How did you use media technologies in the

construction, research, planning and evaluation

stages?

Evaluation Question 4

I used the internet a great deal when researching and planning my trailer. I looked at ‘The Blair Witch project’ in great detail on YouTube

This is an example of an idea I took from ‘The Blair Witch project’ and interpreted into my own work

Blair Witch

My Trailer

Access to the internet allowed me to extend my research and look at professional trailers of horror films like ‘The Blair Witch project’ and find out exactly what I wanted my trailer to look like. I looked at a number of trailers for horror films such as ‘The strangers’, ‘House of wax’ etc. to find the typical features found in horror film trailers, enabling me to include these in my own.

The technology I used whilst creating my trailer was a Canon FS200 camcorder and a boom for the sound. This camera was perfect for me as the film is ‘self filmed’ it was small and easy to carry in this situation

The boom was extremely useful considering we were filming outside, it was needed to pick up the sound which was difficult with background noise that we could not control such as cars

We had to be careful not to let the boom be seen in any camera shots

Link to construction on my blogI used Abdobe Premiere Elements to construct my film trailer.

It provides a number of features that were extremely useful to me. It enabled me to split clips from sound

Add clip in and change their placing along the film line

I could also zoom in and out enabling me to split smaller clips easier

I used the internet and magazines as types of media form of researching for my ancillary tasks. I could find what features of professional magazines I would include on my own

This magazine influenced my decision to use a reasonably close up picture as apposed to a full body image

Link to Magazine Research

I used Abdobe Photoshop CS4 to create the ancillary tasks

It offers many useful features and a variety of texts that were extremely useful to me when creating the magazine especially

I was also able to insert images on ‘Layers’ onto the background, this was useful when adding the barcode to the picture

I used an Olympus 12 megapixel camera to take the pictures of Georgia. This advanced technology is what enabled me to create the black effect around the images

This also allowed me to look at what a picture would look like enhanced while i was taking them which meant that if i did not like it i was able to take another straight away

Link to Magazine making process