Evaluation question 4

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

We conducted a great deal of our research on the internet, it proved a brilliant source of information for researching the genre of film we were creating a trailer for, using imdb we could quickly find the most successful films in our chosen genre, we could then order them from a film distributing site such as play.com and have them delivered to our door. YouTube was also very useful, it created easy access to trailers and teaser trailers which we could use to aid us in generating ideas for our own.

We used a nikonD50 digital camera when we went location hunting, it helped to give us a good idea of how we would frame particular shots. We could also then compare potential locations when we were back at school by uploading the pictures to the computer. We also used the camera to take shots for the poster and media magazine front cover. which we then edited in paint shop pro, a photo editing program, using this we could create different backdrops for our photos which we actually took in Aimee’s living room. Using paint shop pro we could create the illusion that our heroine is standing in the tops of high buildings, skyscrapers in a big city, such as is the demands of the generic iconography.

Another computer program we used but in this case in our planning was windows movie maker, although it is only basic it fulfilled the needs of creating a simple moving storyboard which we find usefull in getting an idea of the pace of the trailer and how we want the music to flow with what will be on screen.

A technology that was new to us that we used in the filming of our teaser trailer was tracks, we used them for the opening sequence of the trailer where our assassin is walking, we wanted to create the feeling that you are following and the tracks are a great help in achieving that.