Question 4: How did we use media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?

During the course of our A2 project, we had used a variety of media technologies from software such as iMovie and Garage band to the film cameras and photo shop. Each software allowed us to create our trailer and our film magazine and poster. We had used i Macs during the majority of our project as it enabled us to create a proficient trailer and film magazine as it had all the software on one computer and all of us had apple products to download any audio we created our of school. Most of our Microsoft products was used during the research, planning and evaluation of  our media product and create a realistic trailer at the end.

Each software helped us during these stages for example, our Microsoft power point allowed us to collect film magazine and collate them into a collage so we could then compare them with one another and figure out which conventions were suitable for our media product at the end. Microsoft allowed us to create our timeline table and the questionnaire which we then had given to our target market, this had helped us when creating the narrative of our trailer as we knew what our potential target market where looking for at the end. Photoshop allowed us to create the film magazine and poster, Ashleigh was the strongest member to do this as she had experience photo shopping skills in different ways. As a group we decided that Ashleigh would be the maker of both magazine      and poster but with our help as well. We each had a task to do in order to create time efficiency among st the group. Often the Microsoft programme were use during the research of our trailer and planning and the apply programmed were used for the construction of our trailer, film magazine and movie poster with the exception of photo shop. The apple products had been the best option to use when constructing our media product. For example iMovie was the best option as it had the transitions, titles and an easier uploading programme. Microsoft word allowed us to write our evaluation of the trailer. YouTube and IMDB assisted us during the research of our trailer. YouTube allowed us to see the conventions of the trailers and different genres whilst IMDB allowed  us to see the feedback of other target markets and ratings of the movie.   When constructing our audio we had used garage band to create it and   during the evaluation stage we created a project on garage band that       allowed us to record our feedback from our audience. During the            research of our trailer we researched into garage band and used              YouTube to find our different methods on how we could do it. The cameras we had used were the digital standard cameras and to create the consistency of the pixels on the footage we used the same one each time so the quality would not differ from each scene,. We used a                                                                   handheld camera to create the idea of a hand filmed documentary                                                                 footage which was successful. Overall media technology allowed us during the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages. Each programme enabled us to create each element of our trailer and ancillary text which allowed us to create the media product overall.