Q4. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Youtube ResearchI conducted research through YouTube to watch other soap trailers. By

watching other trailers this gave me the inspiration for the scenes in my own soap and what I should include in my own trailer.

I made a YouTube account so that I could upload my own trailers and post them on the website. From here I could share my videos and embed them into my blog.

iMacsThe use of the iMacs enabled the group to edit the footage we

had captured and create each trailer. iMovie was significant to the creation of the trailer, it enabled us to edit all aspects of the footage including the sound. Everything could be produced in one place using a professional program. We could also use the iMovie feature to edit the sound of the trailer this included adding a soundtrack and ducking/increasing the sound.

SoundtrackTo get the music we wanted to use for our trailer we first had to use

YouTube to find a song that we liked and thought would work well.

From here we would then have to copy and past the YouTube link into a video ripping site to retrieve the audio.

I used the website www.youtube-mp3.org to rip the audio.

We then had to paste the link into the website where the video audio was changed to mp3 so it could be downloaded.

Once the audio file was downloaded it would appear in iTunes, from here it would appear in iMovie where I could drag and drop the audio onto the video and place it where I wanted it to be.

Once the audio was on the timeline, we were able to duck and increase the sound in the video. This was useful as if we could not hear the actor speaking well we could increase the vocals and duck the music.

Blogger

To create a new post I would first have to start by pressing this button.

This screen would then appear, from here I would name the post and input what I wanted to share.

Blogger was used to upload and present our work.

If I were to embed a video into my blog I would have to find the link on the YouTube video as shown.

Here is the final stage of uploading a post, once I had completed the post all I would have to do was press publish and it would be active on my blog.

Creating the ancillaries

The ancillaries were created using Photoshop, this enabled us to merge all the pictures together to creating the billboard, add graphics/fonts, change the background and tweak the pictures.

PowerPointPowerPoint was used to present the evaluation, I found this a good program to

use as I could copy and paste images and annotate my work easily. I could change fonts and colour to make my evaluation more appealing and interesting to the reader.

TwitterWhen we were not in lesson we were able to communicate with the

teacher and other student through Twitter. This was an easy way of asking questions and communicating with others. We could get feedback wherever we were and this allowed us to work on our projects outside of college.

Recording our soapTo record our soap we used HD cameras which we could mount of a

tripod or use handheld. We could take pictures and record video, this was then transferred through a USB cable to the computers.

Slide ShareI used slide share to upload my PowerPoint's to my blog.

Once the upload was completed it gave an embed link which you could then post into the blog.

First of all I had to click upload and find the PowerPoint I wanted to upload.