Prior to planning on our trailer ideas, we set up a survey on SurveyMonkey to ask people what they enjoy or prefer seeing in horror films. Being that the key demographic for horror is 18-25 year old males, and all three group members fitted into this category, we advertised our survey on popular social networking site FaceBook so that our friends, many of whom fit into this demographic, could fill out the survey for us. This proved to be very helpful as we could store and count all data with complete ease, and little fear of losing any of this information. Later we turned this information into graphs so that it could be easily readable and well recorded.
Our planning stage required minimal media technologies as we discussed in groups and wrote/illustrated our ideas collectively on paper.
Our construction phase relied heavily on media technologies. Immediately, we began recording our trailer, which took just over a week to complete. Following this, we uploaded all of our footage to our computers and began to edit them on Final Cut Pro to create our trailer. Using this program we could also experiment with video manipulation, letting us transform our shots brightness, light, speed, and so on to create a semi-profesisonal looking trailer. In conjunction to Final cut Pro, we used Garageband to create a soundtrack. This was very effective in creating our desired atmosphere and build suspense as appropriate.
Following the construction of the trailer, we began to construct our ancillary texts. We took many photos of the Monk and uploaded them. We then used popular image-editing program Photoshop to transform our photos into credible, realistic horror posters and magazine covers. Based on our AS work with Photoshop, we had a decent knowledge of the basics, allowing us to push ourselves even further to create better models. We also used font website Dafont to look through and download an incredibly large variety of fonts and decide which would add to the feeling of the poster and further the tension and suspense even more.
You have not looked at the evaluation stage at all yet. Overall I feel this is too brief. You really need to talk about the construction stage in more detail. Give me more about Final Cut Pro and the process of editing in general also explain about finding creative Commons and royalty free soundtracks. You have to actually be specific here. Describe also how the process of editing one Final Cut Pro changed your understanding of your product and how it developed. Most of all look at the evaluation stage. You are often asked to evaluate your work in education, but in the media studies course you are asked to do it online on a blog using technology that is supposed to enable you to communicate in a richer way, with a mix of visual information, links etc as well as written thoughts. What is good about this way of working and what is not good about it? Is it ultimately gimmick or do you think that it enables you to do things in an improved way compared to say simply writing an essay? You must reflect on these issues. You are a good thinker and capable of a high grade but will not get it with such cursory answers.
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