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

During our construction, research, planning and evaluation stages we used many different media technologies to develop our final products. We made extensive use of www.google.co.uk especially in our planning stages to find out about certain films and images of posters. To research genres I used the website www.filmsite.org, which I found particularly useful on sub-genres during my initial research.www.youtube.com was very useful to watch trailers to note conventions we should follow, and gain inspiration.

We created our movie magazine front cover and film poster on Indesign. We edited our pictures on Photoshop and Paintshop Pro, by adding effects such as contrast, shadow and colour for a more professional finish.

To make our texts for our trailer we used Microsoft Word for the captions at the beginning of the trailer. For our 'Betrayal' title we used the website www.dafont.com. To source the most suitable text for our trailer.

To construct and edit our trailer we used Movieplus. This was a simple software to use but enabled us to create some good effects. We were particularly pleased with the CCTV shot. This software proved useful and relatively simple to dub out background noises which would have made our product unconvincing and amateur. This software also allowed us to import gunshot sounds which we downloaded from the Internet which played an important part in this trailer. This process was simple and straight forward.