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

Throughout our entire project, we used a

wide range of media technologies to construct,

research and plan all stages of our project.

Firstly we used a High Definition camera that we were lent from our school media department

along with a tripod that we used to rest it on so we could develop the most stable shots

possible. The camera took a while to master, the auto focus was playing up at first but once we placed it on the

tripod, it auto-focused a lot quicker and easier. The conditions were affecting it, the dark wasn't great! We would not have been able to complete our project without filming.

To conduct our research, we used an Apple Mac computer. Firstly we needed to gather images of film posters, film magazine covers and information on other various aspects.

Also one of our primary tasks we did was to watch three different film trailers and analyze them using a grid of 9 method.

To watch these videos, we used 'Youtube' which is a site where videos are streamed. We also used youtube to browse for our horror film trailer's soundtrack. It enabled to us to watch as many horror film trailers as we wanted so we could figure out exactly what we wanted ours to contain. Also, in our video we ended up using a short sound clip from the 'Paranormal Activity' trailer. Youtube also contributed greatly in our evaluation stage. When we were evaluating different videos, we could play them over and over and really work out what the key scenes were, where the music commenced and stopped etc.

Another important technology we used throughout our project is our blogs where we project all our work.

Possibly our most important programme used is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4. This is the programme we used to cut and edit all of our film clips and also layer music, text and sound effects over the top.

We achieved this by first importing all of our filmed footage onto the Apple Mac and imported that into Premiere Pro. We viewed all the videos and wrote down on a piece of paper which ones would be relevant and where we could use them.

By analyzing conventions of horror film trailers on Youtube, we knew we were going to have a slow paced section for the first part of the video then we were going to speed it up, using different 'metal' music to create a fast paced, intense section. Once we had our clips written down in more or less the same order as they are in the final product, we dragged them onto our timeline. We added fades such as cross dissolve and effects such as speeding up the clip by

200% to create variety in our horror trailer. To find the song 'Rammstein - Mein Teil', we found a band we liked using the website myspace then viewed a few of their songs. From previous knowledge, we knew they would fit the mood perfectly, it was just deciding which song to use.

Finishing our project would not have been possible without the technologies we used, especially youtube, our HD camera and Adobe Premiere Pro.