Research and Planning
Media technologies have helped us all the way through our coursework process. When we where researching what type of teaser trailer to do and what techniques to use YouTube was our first port of call. YouTube meant that we could search for different trailers of different genres and within seconds, you were given loads of options to choose from, we could then embed the videos onto our blog in a post and write about them, allowing a reader to see what we were talking about. Google also helped us research. When looking for inspiration for our posters and magazine covers, all we had to do was put what we wanted to search for and we where given various options, when you clicked to see the image in full size you where able to access the website it had come from, which was helpful in gaining additional information about the poster/magazine covers.
The example teaser trailers, posters and magazine covers that we accumulated from YouTube and Google images, reinforced the fact that we wanted to produce our products in the horror genre. They also gave us tips on how to structure all our products.
When wanting to show location shots/character shots on the blog, we used a DSLR camera, to take pictures of various location shots, it was then very easy to save to the computer and upload onto blogger.
Blogger allowed us to access our work wherever we where, therefore keeping organised and on top of what we needed to do was easy. For blogger we had a specific, email and password, therefore all our work was secure. By having all our work online in various posts, made it easy to locate certain information, our teacher also had access to all our blogs making it easy for him to keep up to date on what we were doing.
Production: Trailer
Our teaser trailer was filmed on a Sony A1E video camera that we borrowed from college, it had a built in screen which allowed us to view our footage there and then to make sure we had got the right shot.
When producing our teaser trailer we used a programme called Final Cut, Final Cut allowed us to upload all our taped material. Instead of cutting the shots up, as imovie did, it clumped them together, which was an advantage, as it meant that we had a permanent copy of all our material, instead of one copy of the original shots being used for the timeline, if we made a mistake, we were able to go back to the un tampered shots.
Luckily for us the music track we were using fitted our piece perfectly. But if it had not we could have easily placed the track on the timeline and cut it up and place various bits with various shots. Final Cut also allowed us to place transitions, like fading in and out.
Posters and Magazine Cover
We used Photoshop for all of the ancillary tasks.
Evaluation :
Audience Feedback
When gathering audience feedback, I recorded my friends respones to what they thought of our trailer on my Blackberry mobile phone, I could then sent them to my computer via Bluetooth and then upload them onto YouTube and embed them onto my blog.
Fickr.com allowed me to annotate my poster and magazine cover and easily compare them to real products. I hope this will make my evaluation more visually interesting and effective . As you can see I have used a variety of media technologies and not one of them has caused me a problem.
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