Evaluation question 4 – how did you use media technologies in the planning, research, construction and evaluation.

Planning and Research
• We used Google to research films and teasers trailers of those films.
• We then used Microsoft PowerPoint to create a PowerPoint containing information about two films of our own choice. I chose to look at Night at the Museum and X Mens Origins: Wolverine.
• We then uploaded this to slide share and were given a web link
• We created an account on blogger.com to store and view all our completed work for the project. We then took the web link from slide share and created a PowerPoint post on our blog
• Once we had chosen a specific genre to follow and had a good idea we wanted to use, we used Google and IMBD.com to research similar films within our selected genre. For our group those films were Charlie’s Angels, Chicago, The Sopranos and The Real Hustle.
• Once we had our idea fully completed we created a storyboard out of post it notes. We then filmed each post it note using a cannon video camera in the order that the trailer would go.
• Once we had filmed the post it notes we then uploaded this video of our animatics on to our blog
• After uploading this we then created a proper storyboard of how our trailer would go and a shooting script of when we would film each shot and what we would need etc
• Using a digital camera we took a picture of both our storyboard and shooting script. We then uploaded this to our blog.
Construction
• Using the cannon video camera and tripod we went and filmed all our shots
• We then uploaded all our video footage on to Ulead Editing Software, where we used various editing tools and effects to cut, fade, dissolve and slow down shots to create our film
• Since our group decided we didn’t want any diegetic sound, just a music track we had to use a music creating software to create our own piece of music
• Once we created it we then had to uploaded it on to Ulead and put it on our trailer
• We also decided we wanted to create our own promotions company logo; this had to be done on Photoshop. We filled the background in black using the paint bucket tool; we then used the shape tool to make three stars and then filled the stars in with a gold background. Then using the text tool we printed the words “Bedazzled Productions” on to the page and used the rotation tool to rotate the words at a diagonal slant. We then filled the letters using the paint bucket tool again alternatively with the colours red and white. Finally we used the shadow tool to make the stars look 3D
• For our film poster and magazine front cover, we used a digital camera and spot lights to create a photo shoot where we would use the photos as the images for our film poster and magazine front cover.
• We then took the two images we wanted to use (one for each promotional piece); we put them of face book and used the magic wand tool to remove the back ground and any other unwanted pieces of the picture. We then used the eraser tool to tidy any bits up that needed tidying.
• For the film poster we used the paint bucked tool to add a greyish black background to the poster. We then used the text tool to add the title, release date, director and producer’s names and website. We finally then imported our promotions company logo in.
• For the magazine front cover we used the paint bucked tool to add a blue background to the front cover. We then used the text tool to add the title of the magazine, film title, director and producer’s names and sell lines.
Evaluation
• For our evaluation we used our blogs to store all our posts, images, videos and PowerPoint files.
• We used slide share to upload our PowerPoint flies to enable them to be able to be uploaded to blogger.com
• We also used a digital camera to take pictures of our shooting script, photo shoot and location shots and story board which we then uploaded to our blog
• We used the cannon video cameras to film out post it notes which we then uploaded to our blog
• We used blooger.com to upload our film poser and magazine front cover