Q4. HOW DID YOU USE MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE

CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION

STAGES?Elay

I presented my research of trailers, analysis of different genres and types of promotional packaging. This helped me with my understanding of the conventions on successful trailers/posters/magazines and genres. I was not really fond of using Prezi at first due to the advanced software of ordering and placing. However, the more I used it the more confident I became.

Prezi is an active software space in which enables you to navigate and zoom in and out of your presentation.

I used PowerPoint to present my research and Evaluation. I have learned new features from PowerPoint 2013-16 such as OneDrive in which I used to share my document with my peers in real time.

PowerPoint owned my Microsoft is an easy to use slide show presentation, hence why it is one of the most successful software.

YouTube is a free video sharing website

I uploaded videos such as my research of what a trailer is, the trailer draft and the final trailer.

Bubbl.us is a free brainstorming software that allows you to construct your ideas

I used bubbl.us to brainstorm my first ideas of what the plot of the trailer would be. Bubbl.us taught me how to create a narrative from scratch, just by starting with a chosen genre, I added more branches to go into detail of the mise-en-scene which helped me to develop ideas for the plot.

Poll junkie is a free website that allows you to create online surveys for different types audiences

I created questionnaires and sent them to my focus group in order to get constructive feedbacks for my final poster draft. Because of this, I was able to place the missing key conventions of a poster, which would make offline poster successful.

Tumblr is a social networking website where users can create blogs and share content by re-blogging.

Tumblr is a creative platform to micro-blog, so I presented my research on film and magazine front cover. I was pleased with the clarity of the content as it was easy to navigate through.

I used a 500d cannon camera to shoot the offline trailer. I had to practice with a few shots until I progressed on my skills of focusing whilst zooming and tuning the lighting to balance the natural light of the environment.

We used QuickTime screen recording to help show our editing in the trailer for our commentary evaluation.

The Canon EOS 500d can shoot videos on a high quality of about 1080p.It has a 15.1 megapixel resolution

QuickTime is Apples multimedia technology. Not only is it a media player where it allows you to convert files into different formats, it also lets you audio and screen record.

1001 free fonts is an archive of freely downloadable fonts.

There was a range of different potential fonts for Offline so I took my time to find a font that suited our target audience demographic as well as the narrative plot.

Pinterest is a visual discovery tool where you can find ideas for all of your projects and interests.

Pinterest was very straightforward to use. It allowed me to create a collage with pictures that related to Offline such as social network (Facebook), room and mysterious people which followed dark themes. All in which represented our drama/thriller genre conventions.