Question 4How did you use media

technologies in the construction,

research, planning and evaluation stages?

I have used a blogging website, Blogger, to present my work by posting images, links and videos. I chose to use blogger as my team mates and myself have easy access to it and are able to publish and broadcast our work. I have posted some images that I have taken off my mobile phone, a DSLR camera that I borrow and other images are from Google. Most links and videos that were posted were from YouTube. YouTube videos I have posted were videos such as make up tutorials, the begging scene of the film 'Twilight' and a begging scene of a music video. I used to post textual analysis, audience research and other things that may be needed to add on the blog.

I used YouTube to look at the beginning scene of the film ‘Twilight’ to get some inspiration on how to film the forest part of my teaser trailer. In the beginning scene of ‘Twilight’ it is of a deer running in the forest and as my trailer involved a forest scene we got ideas on filming the trailer like how it is in the YouTube clip.

To the left here are some screen shots from the YouTube video. They are of the deer running in the forest.

YouTube is very to use as everyone is familiar with the software. The only problem that I experienced with YouTube is that not all the videos I watched was what I was looking for. YouTube was very useful in pre and post production as we used YouTube to do research and we used YouTube to publish our trailer.

Youtube.com was very useful during the development and pre production of the trailer, poster and magazine front cover. YouTube was easy to use as when you type anything into the search bar, something will come up. I used YouTube to find  a tutorial on how to create bite marks on a hand, bruised eye, bloody nose, slit eyebrows. The image above is a screen shot of one of the videos that is on our blog. The image shown is from the make up tutorial that shows us how to create a bruised eye, bloody nose and slit eyebrows. I looked at make up tutorials to get ideas on possible marks and scars the victim could have.

As a group new used a range of technologies to help us plan what the poster, magazine front cover and the trailer would be like. We used websites such as Google and YouTube to research on horror as a general topic. Then we decided that the genre of our teaser trailer would be J horror/psychological horror so we based our work on what we found through our research into J horror and psychological films. For audience research, I decided to ask people blackberry messenger (BBM). BBM is a technology on smart phones which is used to communicate with friends. One of the reasons for why I decided to use this messenger as a form of research method is because its easier than making a survey and making people do them. Also it is easier to obtain peoples.