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

During the filming process first of all I had to use a video camera to film different parts of our trailer, before filming I had to make sure it was not in wide screen, and use different camera shots such as extreme close ups. Close ups and long shots by using the zoom button to add effect. I also used this to film parts in black and white.
I used ‘Final Cut Pro’ to capture all the footage I had shot. There was an awful lot of footage and had to capture each shot one at a time and name them differently so it was easier to put them on the timeline, to do that I would drag it in to the first window and choose how much of the shot I would want buy pressing ‘I’ to start the shot and ‘O’ to stop where I wanted it to end , and did this continuously for every shot I used. I also used this programme to add effects such as ‘Bad T.V’ to make the shot flicker to add tension, we made our inter-titles using this programme by typing in what text we wanted, chnaginf the colour of the font, and the background to make it fit in with the horror genre, after that we also chose the transition we wanted, on how we wanted it to enter the shot and exit.. There are other effects such as changing the speed to make it faster or slower in some cases. I change the colour of some shots such as black and white to make it clear which shots were from the past and what shots were from the present , simply by clicking on the image in the window and turning it around however much i wanted. . I also chose to make some of my shots canted angles to create disturbing images. we used the timeline to chnage the order of where some shots went and where the music would be. We used effects to fade in and out shots by using the dotted tool.

When we had finished our trailer next was to create the music for it and for this I used ‘Garge band’  which i only used for making sound effects, such as, big drum noises, Thunder claps, and to even add dialogue where i would record my own voise and edit it the wau i wanted. But for our trailer we had singing so we recorded us singing ‘Happy Birthday’ and changed our voice in to a little girls. We also used a lot of 'Izmir Ambience'  which is one of the sounds that were already on the programme whcih made the beginning of our trailer.

We got our main soundtrack form a website called ‘Creative Common’s sound’ where it gave lists of different soundtracks of every genre and we had to type in words that relate to our trailer and we would get lists of soundtracks for it. And when we found the one wanted we downloaded it and then imported it in to final cut pro to add to our timeline.

I used ‘You Tube’ to upload our trailer so we could show people of our target audience and get feedback on what they liked about it and what they didn’t .

I had to use a normal standard camera to take pictures I was thinking of using for my magazine cover and poster using.

I had used ‘Photoshop’ to create a magazine front cover where I has to choose a magazine and basically copy the layout of it and make it our own, I would upload my image I wanted to use and change everything about it to make it look scary I used tools such as, feathering, magic wand to cut around the image, change the brightness and contrast, the curves and used shapes to create the full layout. I did the same for making my poster except this time I was focussing on my image adding as any effects as I could same as what I have said just a bit stronger than what I would use on a magazine. I had to make billboids showing everyone who was in the process and choosing a readable yet appropriate text.

Finally I used ‘Blogger’ to upload all my information I have learnt over the past few months and my trailer I created. i find useing blogger a much easier, simpler way of keeping all my work on, as it is all on one page and i dont have to worry about losing pieces. I like the fact i can decortate my blog to however i want so it can link in to the horror genre more as it made me feel as if i was making a more professional portfolio. the only disadvantages is that it is not easy to upload you images on to blogger as you can put it on the editing space fine but it comes up all messy on your blog so i had to resort to using photoshop just so it looked neater, but it was extremly time restricting.