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

2. When completing my research I used different technologies to present my research and complete
my research. In order for me to research trailers, posters and magazine covers I used google,
youtube and IMDb these are sites which are easy to use.
To present my research I used media technologies such as prezi and slide share as these
websites are used for presentations. They are easy to use and make everything look a lot more
presentable I decided to use these media technologies as they are easy to navigate and can
present my research simply.

3. These are the media technologies I used for researching posters and trailers, for my magazine
covers I decided to use iMovie, a media technology which again is fast and easy to use simply
presenting what I have researched.
In my planning process however I started to use more media technologies which took a lot more
time and concentration. I used different media technologies such as Slide share, Storyboardthat,
Photoshop and iMovie.
When my group and I started to plan and write up our narrative we decided to create a story board
on a website called story board that. This was better than drawing out a story board by hand and
scanning it onto my blog as storyboardthat allows you to upload the storyboard onto slide share.

4. I used photoshop to plan the way in which I was going to create my final film poster and film
magazine cover. I made a mock poster and magazine to get used to the tools on photoshop and
work on different ways I could present my work.
These are my mock magazine cover and film poster.

5. When constructing my main product and ancillary texts I used a lot of media technologies including final cut pro,
garage band, motion, live type, photoshop, pic monkey, wix.com.
Final cut pro, motion and garage band are all the media technologies I used when constructing my main product.
I started by putting all of my footage onto final cut pro and put all of the footage I wanted to include onto the timeline.
once all of my footage was on the timeline and where i wanted it I started to look at effects I could add to the clips .
I looked at the effects available on final cut pro, and decided to add a ‘fade in/out’ effect on several of my clips in the
timeline.
Once I had added the effects I felt suited the genre and film trailer the best I wanted to start looking at different foley
sounds I could add on to the sequence in order to create ambience and atmosphere. To insert foley sounds I found
them on garage band and sent them to iTunes as a song, once it had converted I placed it into the sequence where
I wanted it to go.
Once the footage, foley sounds and effects had all been added into the sequence, I started looking at creating inter
titles. I started to construct the inter titles using motion. Motion is software, were you can create different titles,
adding effects, fonts. This did take me time to figure out but I figure from using the motion library I could simply add
effects to my inter titles.

6. When creating my film poster I used photoshop, for both the mock poster and the real poster I
used different layers, tools and techniques to create the best film magazine I could.
Here I had used hue/saturation to change the effect on the image of my main character, I wanted
to make the image darker than usually as I was trying to make the film poster look as much like a
thriller as possible.
I created another layer, and made this layer clouds. Once I had added the clouds I had moved it
around to look more like dark fog or smoke, which is common in thriller films.

7. Once I had got the cloud image to look like dark smoke I placed the image of the protagonist back
on top of the layer and this is the image I got. I had then created some rectangular shapes to get
the black lines obstructing the image, then I added the typography and my final film poster was
complete.

8. To construct my film magazine I used the same media technology, photoshop. I had created a
simple black layer and placed my cropped image of the main character on top.
I realised I wanted the characters head to slightly obstruct the masthead, which I had seen in film
magazines prior to constructing my own. I created another layer and put the mast head layer
underneath the character layer.
I simply added more text and positioned the sub headings, just like how I had seen when
researching film magazine covers. My final magazine cover looked like this…

9. To publish my film trailer I uploaded it onto youtube, youtube is a worldwide website where billions
of videos are posted. Youtube is an easy way to watch trailer and teaser trailers as the internet is a
part of peoples every day lives, millions of people use Youtube which makes uploading film trailer
a cheap, fast and very effective way to market a film.
For my Evaluation I have chosen to use slide share and prezi presentations as they are easy and
creative to present my ideas.

10. To publish my film trailer I uploaded it onto youtube, youtube is a worldwide website where billions
of videos are posted. Youtube is an easy way to watch trailer and teaser trailers as the internet is a
part of peoples every day lives, millions of people use Youtube which makes uploading film trailer
a cheap, fast and very effective way to market a film.
For my Evaluation I have chosen to use slide share and prezi presentations as they are easy and
creative to present my ideas.