Above is an image in which I created myself on Photoshop. Within this image is the technologies I used throughout my process of creating my products.
Throughout the process of producing my trailer, there were three main stages in which these media technologies were incredibly useful for. The first stage was research and planning. For this I used Flickr to produce analysis of current horror posters and magazine covers. This was able to give me a set structure for how both had to be presented and to help me gain ideas for my own. I also used Flickr later on within my work to upload many photos that I wanted to put onto my blog, and I linked them together so that I could annotate these images. I also used Youtube within my research as I was able to endlessly look through professional horror trailers in the industry, and notice the horror and trailer conventions in which they contained, enabling me to gather ideas for mine in terms of camera shots, editing techniques and many more. I then used Dafont, which is an online website where you can choose from a very diverse and wide variety of fonts. This website became very useful for my group and I as we tested many fonts that could we would be able to incorporate into our final ancillary products, and even our trailer.
The next stage of work in which I used the variety of technologies was Production. The main programme in which I used the most to produce my trailer was Final Cut Studio. My whole trailer was produced over many weeks on Final Cut Studio and from this I gained skills of uploading film, cutting and editing the film and many other qualities which helped me to develop the trailer. I also gained the ability to learn many editing techniques such as cutting out sections that I did not want to use, placing filters on shots, and speeding or slowing the pace of shots. This programme was used on a Mac computer and enabled me to produce a trailer that was similar to the trailers in which I had studied and analysed on Youtube. Photoshop was the next programme in which I created the ancillary products on. On this I edited the photo's that I had taken which were going to be featured within my horror poster, and magazine cover. Both of these were also created on Photoshop as I was able to add and remove layers that would all build up into one image. Many products within the industry are created on Photoshop as it is a very reliable source of creating these types of products, and I again developed my skills by learning how to create a layout for my magazine cover that was similar to Empire. Lastly, Physically within the production of my work, I used video cameras and a digital SLR camera. All of the film we filmed for our trailer we filmed on the video cameras. This was a new experience for me as I do not regularly use video cameras. From learning the skills of using a video camera whilst filming my trailer, I have now been able to include this skill within other college subjects. Using a digital SLR camera was normal to me also being a photography student, however I still learnt new skills whilst using this to create photographs for my ancillary texts, which is something very different and was also really interesting to learn these new skills.
Lastly, through the evaluation stage of my product I used this online site, Blogger. This site enabled me to upload all of my work and evaluate the content in which I had produced within my work. Using Blogger was a very big advantage to evaluating my work in contrast to a normal every-day evaluation. It was able to be shown digitally on a computer, and I was also able to change the layout and colouring of my work. Using Blogger allowed to contain the use of images on my evaluations and also Youtube clips. This made my work more enjoyable for the reader and less tedious. Using Blogger through this A2 work has enabled me to develop on the skills I already gained from my AS work, but to explore them further. It has also been a way for me to analyse my own work, similarly to how I evaluated professional work during the research and planning stages.I would most definitely use nearly all of these programmes in the future as I have developed skills in which I would be able to involve within other subjects and for my personal life. I believe they have been very useful in producing my products to a high standard that look quite professional.
This is not detailed enough. Question asks you to consider the three stages of the work: research and planning; production; and evaluation. You need to be specific about things that you learnt. For example when discussing Final Cut Pro you should say some of the specific editing techniques you learnt such as the application of effects or editing for pace. And you should also talk about how working on Final Cut Pro changed your conception of the product as you went along. For research and planning you should consider using Flickr to analyse movie posters and using Youtube for trailers, and perhaps using survey monkey or whatever to undertake audience research. Most interesting is the evaluation. Compare doing an evaluation on a blog with doing a more traditional evaluation such as an essay on paper. Is it just a gimmick doing it this way or does it genuinely give you opportunities to do things that you would not otherwise be able to?
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