The beginning of my work was all about the research and planning. The research into horror film trailers and how they are created and constructed was a very important part of the task as a whole, a lot of the work that I collected for this was type-based, this meant that Microsoft word was very helpful to me when it came to writing and storing my work safely. The internet was my main source of gaining the information I needed in this part of my work, two websites that I found myself using a lot more than any others were Youtube and Wikipedia.
Youtube was useful for watching other trailers to analyse and learn more about the genre conventions you can expect to see in a horror trailer. Wikipedia was helpful for learning more about horror films in general and gaining more knowledge about particular films, particular horror characters and the history of horror. To plan my work I had to create questionnaires to hand out to people to know what it is my audience would want to see, to collect these results into an organised and easy to read group I put them onto a graph using Microsoft Excel.
When it came to construction for my ancillary products my main use of media technology was Photoshop, where I edited images and created posters and magazine covers to suit my particular idea and genre.
To obtain these images I used a digital camera within a studio, from which I then put onto the computer to begin my poster and magazine cover. To obtain fonts that would be considered ‘Horror Fonts’ I used a website called ‘DaFonts’, I then copied the image of these fonts and edited and changed them on Photoshop.
The construction of my main product – the horror trailer – began by filming all of our work on a HDR video camera. The work we had was then put onto our designated MacBook where we then used Premier Pro to organise all of separate shots and start putting them into trailer order on the timeline, this program also allowed us to cut scenes, slow them down, speed them up and also edit the actual image of the shot to add special effects. In this stage of construction I also used some sound effect websites, for example: Sounddogs’ and ‘stonewashed’.
For the Evaluation stages of my coursework I have used this site, Blogger. Blogger has allowed me to collectively review and evaluate my own work as I have put it all together in an organised way making it easy for me to look at all of it together. Despite using Blogger in the AS year of this course, I feel this year it was a lot more useful too me and I have learnt lots of new skills in how to upload things too it including videos and pictures. I felt it was a very professional way to over-view all of my work to be able to critically analyse all of it.
Youtube was useful for watching other trailers to analyse and learn more about the genre conventions you can expect to see in a horror trailer. Wikipedia was helpful for learning more about horror films in general and gaining more knowledge about particular films, particular horror characters and the history of horror. To plan my work I had to create questionnaires to hand out to people to know what it is my audience would want to see, to collect these results into an organised and easy to read group I put them onto a graph using Microsoft Excel.
When it came to construction for my ancillary products my main use of media technology was Photoshop, where I edited images and created posters and magazine covers to suit my particular idea and genre.
To obtain these images I used a digital camera within a studio, from which I then put onto the computer to begin my poster and magazine cover. To obtain fonts that would be considered ‘Horror Fonts’ I used a website called ‘DaFonts’, I then copied the image of these fonts and edited and changed them on Photoshop.
The construction of my main product – the horror trailer – began by filming all of our work on a HDR video camera. The work we had was then put onto our designated MacBook where we then used Premier Pro to organise all of separate shots and start putting them into trailer order on the timeline, this program also allowed us to cut scenes, slow them down, speed them up and also edit the actual image of the shot to add special effects. In this stage of construction I also used some sound effect websites, for example: Sounddogs’ and ‘stonewashed’.
For the Evaluation stages of my coursework I have used this site, Blogger. Blogger has allowed me to collectively review and evaluate my own work as I have put it all together in an organised way making it easy for me to look at all of it together. Despite using Blogger in the AS year of this course, I feel this year it was a lot more useful too me and I have learnt lots of new skills in how to upload things too it including videos and pictures. I felt it was a very professional way to over-view all of my work to be able to critically analyse all of it.
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