EVALUATION-Q4

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

To get to my completed trailer, poster and movie magazine i had to use many technologies, in which i had to develop my skills in most of them to get the most effective outcome.
To get my completed trailer i obviously used a camcorder to film my footage and a tripod to place the camera on. Once i had filmed my footage i used a fire wire to import my clips on the school mac. On this mac i edited the footage i had at that time. I cut the clips down and made some of the clips black and white and out the aged film effect on them. This however made the size of my project really big as each effect was taking up lots of room. This made the school mac really slow for everyone. I then found out that my sister had a macbook so i put my work on a disk and took it home with me to work on it there. My sister's macbook is more up to date then the school mac's so i had to figure out who to work most of it by myself. To edit my trailer on imovie i cut down all the clip's to as short as possible to make it flow better. Also to keep the pace of the trailer as i wanted i changed the speed of some of the clips, for example the shot of the murderer and woman cooking at the beginning of the trailer was slowed down because i wanted to keep the pace slow and relaxed at the beginning for more of a shock at the sudden change. Then for a number of the clips in the second part were speed up as i wanted the pace alot faster to keep everything tense, For example i speeded up the end of the clip when the murderer comes out of the doorway and pulls the girl in backward. This made it look like it happened really fast so she didn't have a chance to get away.

The technology i used most was Blogspot as i updated at least every other day. The first thing i did after creating a blog was to put a background onto it to personalise it. Then i updated it regularly which my research and planning. My research and planning i mainly done on youtube, so i created an account for. I downloaded quite a few trailers off youtube and uploaded them onto my blog, For example i downloaded the trailer for 'True Romance' when i was researching romance thriller's because i wanted to know what sort of camera angles to use as the storyline for this film is quite similar to mine.
Another application i learnt how to use was slideshare because i uploaded some powerpoints onto my blog so i could get across all the information needed but by using different medias and technique's to make it more fun and effective. I downloaded a powerpoint which had lots of different posters on, so it was all in one place instead od downloading lot's of individual pictures of posters. I also done the same with magazine covers and a number of other things.

Even though i had someone helping me out with the background music for my trailer i still went on soundcloud to try and find some music that Chris could work with so he knew exactly how i wanted it so he could work faster and i would get the music i wanted. I aslo gave him examples from other movie trailers off youtube even though they were not copy right free. In case of emergencies and for some reason if i could not get the music that Chris had done for me i made my own music on garageband so i had a back-up.

Once the whole of my trailer had been complete i tried many different ways to try and bring it back into school. Firstly i tried bringing it into school on a hard-drive, however it did not work on the school mac's because my sister's mac is more up to date so the hard-drive had been set for the newer version of mac's. Therefore i tried bringing it in on a memory stick but it had been saved in a format which was newer then the school one's so yet again i couldn't get it on school mac's. My next attempt was to upload it onto youtube then download it again at school. However the name of the music software Chris used came up over the top of my film when it uploaded onto youtube so that was no good either. After that i tried to send an email to myself with it in, so i could re-open it at school and download it, however the file was too big to go into an email even though i had compressed it earlier. The last thing i could think of which i done was upload it onto a free website then download it back off on my laptop and save it on to there. The website i used was megaupload.com. Once i had downloaded it back onto my laptop i burnt it onto a DVD, which i then brought into school. However when i then brought the DVD into school the music and the film had saved into different files so i then i had to use some software to put the two back together. For this i used the software 'Windows Premeire'. I uploaded the two files and put them together then burnt the whole trailer off onto a new DVD.

To create my film poster and movie magazine i used photoshop. This was a new technology as i had never used it before. So all my skills for photoshop started out as nothing which have developed through the last six months which has led me to create an effective and professional movie poster and magazine to advertise my film. I used a large number of different effects and techniques on this programme and i know now how to use them confidently to produce good work.

These two poster's show hpw much my photshop skills have developed with in six months.