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

During my research I found the Internet Movie Database website extremely useful as it gave me the release dates, cast, crew and earnings of the production of the chosen film I was researching.

I also used a simple google images search to get my magazine covers which then directed me to websites such as Total Film and Fangoria. One being a bestselling movie magazine and the other a specific one for the horror genre in which I was looking at.

As well as this I researched the meaning of Fritags Triangle to help me understand the points of action within films and the code and conventions and what sorts of titling and shots my film would require.

To carry out some of my planning I create a Grid of Nine analysis chart, of three different films of the horror genre. I used YouTube to find the clips, along with printscreen and paint to edit them into Mircosoft word. Finally I used slideshare, which is a social sharing site to put this on to my blog.

During the planning of my products I used a Panasonic Lumix camera to take pictures of my locations to conduct a simple location reccee. However instead I decided tomake a video of my location and to do so I used a HD flip camcorder, and uploaded my video to the web 2.0 program YouTube. Linking it back to my blog, powered by blogger. I also used slide share to upload my poster and magazine cover ideas, and my shooting schedule. To construct my film I used a Canon Legria FS200 Camcorder and a Philips external microphone to create the effect of live sounds and to also make them sound clear.

Formy audience feedback I handed out questionnaires and uploaded my findings to a document and slideshare product. Throughoutthe construction of my poster and magazine cover I used iMovie and Photoshop.On iMovie I used things such as clip and sound trimmer helping me get things tocertain lengths and volumes as well as the use of text and transition buttons.

On Photoshop I used as number of different things to help me distort my image change the color and cleanly edit around it. I used it to brighten my imagesand dim the backgrounds. For both of these ancillary products I used Microsoftword to complete my final versions, as it was easy for me to use and had everything I required to make these products.

Finally, I used blogger to power my blog as it’s a free social networking site letting me document my ideas as I went along, and of course YouTube allowing me to getmy products seen by people other than my friends and family and by a much broader and wide audience.