Youtube played an important role in our main task.

Mobile Phones played a big

GarageBand is a piece of software on the Mac’s
Firstly in the planning stages, we used Youtube to we used. It allowed us to try and create a piece part in the whole process.
watch trailers of films from our genre e.g. Snatch. of music to use on our trailer. We had a few We used them regularly to
This helped us a lot as it provided us with ideas, difficulties adapting to the technology at first, arrange when we were
and made us aware of the generic conventions that but soon we were able to make good use of the filming, when we were
we could either abide by, or challenge. This gave us various sound effects and create some music for taking photos for the
a better understanding of our genre. It also our trailer. We were able to do various things magazine and poster, where
provided us with the news clips and the gunshot such as adjust the tempo, combine sounds,
sound we have used. The news clips helped give a
we going, what time etc.
adjust the bass etc. This is why this was a very
strong narrative to our trailer, and helped explain useful piece of technology as it enabled us to This made things a lot
the disequilibrium (what had upset the normal life create our own music. We were also able to easier, and enabled us to
of the characters.) record sounds on there as well, and used this to organise our time
record the phone conversation at the start of the productively. We also used a
Slideshare is a website on the Internet that enables you trailer. phone for the ringing sound
to upload PowerPoint presentations and embed them onto another in the conversation at the
page (in our case, our blogs.) This made things easier as we used
We used digital video cameras to record
PowerPoint’s to pitch our trailer, and we were then able to put share the footage for our trailer, as these were start of the trailer.
them with people and receive strong feedback. We were also able to what was available to us. We already had
upload parts of our evaluation up onto the Internet, and then onto our knowledge on how to use this
Blogs. technology, which was an advantage.
We decided to use the Macs to edit our The cameras did have their
We used Facebook to gain an limitations, such as lighting We used tripods when
film trailer. This was partly to with the
insight into what our target filming and taking
fact that we already had an idea in how to audience thought. We used
issues, and occasionally photographs. This
Facebook, as a lot of our target switching off for no reason! But helped as it ensured
use them and also we were able to add
audience use social networking apart from that they were a good that the pictures were
various effects such as changing the tempo, sites, so it made sense to advertise level and steady. The
piece of kit to use and without
reversing, freeze framing, putting titles on our film on these. them, we would have had to use a only issue we had was
when the camera was
etc. If we didn't have the Mac’s, we would camera of poorer quality. They required to be moved
have had to have used a technique called were also easy enough to put on when filming, however,
to the Macs. we were able to film
‘Crash Editing’ which involves using a form of 2 Scribd is a website on the We used a fire whilst carrying the
internet which enabled us to
tapes, and cutting from the tapes instead, which we upload documents on to our wire to transport camera.
blogs, such as this one. our filming onto
don't have any experience in. We did have a few
the Macs, and our
problems with the Mac’s such as availability, We used the
We used digital still cameras to take photos passport hard
technical problems, things not working on the Macs onto the
the photos for our magazines and drive to transport
which worked on normal PC’s but we overcame these posters. This was a good choice as the PC’s
our news clips
to finish our trailer.
Cameras had good features on them from Youtube onto the
Last year we did our blogs on It’s Learning, which wasn’t very good, so this such as image-stabilizer, which Macs. We had some issues
meant the pictures weren't blurry.
year we used Blogger. This is much better and made it much easier to They also had zoom, which helped us
finding a way to transport
make sure the picture we were these on as we didn't have
embed videos and images, organize our posts with labels etc. We were getting wasn't too far away. They a memory stick, but luckily
also able to customize the blogs as well, making them relate to our were also very easy to upload the
we were able to get hold of
images from.
products, e.g. I used an urban background, which represents our locations. this and transport the
You could also add gadgets, such as new movie trailers, and music. videos onto the Macs with
enough time to edit them.
We did our poster and magazines on We used PowerPoint’s as
they are an easy way to
Photoshop. This was the obvious choice present things due to the One of the main reasons we used the Macs was for
as we all used it last year for our AS various slides available. For Imovie. This is very good software that you can use
practical, and therefore knew how to use example in our pitch, and in
question 1 of the to edit video footage. It has many special features
it. The good thing about Photoshop is evaluation, which involved which make it very easy and good
that it is relatively easy to use and there talking about different
are so many things you can do to the shots. to use. We were able to adjust the speed using
We used a scanner to upload our
images, such as feather them, change the mindmaps and our storyboard.
the tortoise and hare tool. This also enabled us to
do our freeze frame where we cut out the bit we
contrast, make them black and white, We chose to do this mainly for a
time consuming option, as wanted to freeze, and then slowed the speed right
create images, layering, cut out etc. In our opposed to using a digital
down so that it lasted longer. This worked very
poster, the main thing we used was the camera. It also guarantees that
The Internet played a major part in our and we were
the picture will be of good well
colour and contrast tools as we wanted to quality. Without it we wouldn't be
coursework.
make the images black and white. able to do our blogs, get ideas for all of able to put text on the screen as well. It was
We were also able to improve our our products, gain audience feedback, very easy to import music on to Imovie and
products through experimenting get the News clips and Institutions on therefore we didn't have many issues with
our trailer. We wouldn't be able to
with all the various tools as well, that. There is also a tool which enables the
promote our trailer on social
coming out with various successful networking sites. So this was one of the video to reverse, and we experimented with
and unsuccessful outcomes. most important bits of technology we this as well but it didn't fit our genre, or
used. trailer.