How did you use media technologies in construction and research and planning and evaluation stages.

During the planning for the poster I used Microsoft publisher to create the best possible poster. Before adding the image to the pre planned text to create the contrast which brought on an edgy feeling I changed the contrast using  windows photo gallery. This programme helps you to change things about an image such as the size, adjust exposure, adjust colour and fix red eye. I then saved that image and inserted it into the poster creating the finishing design.

During the creation of the trailer we used a DV camera this was a new and exciting challenge as it was something that I had never done before. It was a bit complicated and time consuming at first but once we had got used to the camera it was really good. We used a stills camera to take the poster and TV listings images at the same time as filming. After filming we used Apple Macs to create the trailer on Final Cut Pro. Final Cut Pro was a very confusing programme to use as there were a lot of complicated actions that needed to be created and adding in transitions and text  was often difficult and time consuming but towards the end of the task the individual bits that needed adding were getting quicker and easier to do. Another programme we used to add in background music was Soundtrack Pro this was easier to use - fairly simple and straight forward. This was one of my favourite pieces of technology to use during this production as it was interesting to add all of the sounds and cut the long tracks and add parts in-between and cut to create the final soundtrack that you want. To keep in communication with the rest of my group and to log our process we used a blog on blogger.com. This was something that I had done for AS but not really kept up but it was a vital way to keep in contact and know what we all were doing.

The last piece of technology used was Microsoft publisher to do this presentation on. This was a programme that I have been using for the last 10 years so it was not too much of a problem for me to do but to make it effective and convey information I used the box underneath to write the notes in and just a few words and images above which I think is a better way to give more information without over cluttering the images.