In our A2 project, we as a group used a different range of media software, e.g. Imovie, Garage band, hand held camera's Photoshop. each of these helped us create our projects and ancillary texts, throughout our project we used Apple IMAC computers to help us do this, this was helped us a lot as it had a wide range of high technology software to give us a professional look for our project. most of our Microsoft software we used such as word or powerpoint was during our research, it helped us create mood boards and questionnaires. it was also so planning and evaluation.
All of the software that we used in our project helped us through all of the stage. Microsoft allowed us to write out a filming plan to help us keep on top of things, it helped us write a production schedule of what we have done on our blogs and what we haven't this was so we didn't fall behind on them. For our magazine front cover and trailer poster, we used Photoshop, Ashleigh was in charge of this because she had the experience, but we all chipped in to help decide what goes where. the software that we used on the imacs were the best option because they were made for real film companies to do their films on, we used imovie because it had all the transitions, titles and it was easy to upload. I was in charge of editing because of my experience, I knew how to do a lot of things from my previous experience in AS. we used Youtube to help us upload all of our filming to link it to our blogs, we used Twitter and Facebook to help us get audience feedback, this is because we all had friends that fit our target audience so they would enjoy watching the trailer a lot more. we also used Youtube to help research different trailers within our genre, this was so we could know how long the trailers were and what they include. we used Garage band to help create the music for our trailer and used the internet and Youtube to help us find methods if we didn't know how to do it. we also used photoshop tutorials on the internet if we weren't sure on how to do an effect.
the cameras that we had used for our project we had used were digital standard cameras, this was so we had the consistency of pixels on our footage, so it looked smooth all the way through, we used handheld cameras to create the documentary style that we wanted, this was by filming us ourselves and off framing shots all of the professional footage we used and filmed was by Rebecca this is because of her experience of her AS course. During the course of our project we also used Blogger, this was to blog all of our research and planning for our trailer in order for teachers, my group members and the examiner to see all of our progress in this project. we also used this to post all of our evaluation on it.Overall media technology allowed us as a group to construct our research, planning and evaluation. each of the programmes we used helped us create all of our trailer and ancillary texts which allowed us to create our whole project as a group.
