4. How did you use technologies in the construction stage, and in the research, planning & evaluation stages?

The hardware we used throughout the process of filming our trailer helped enhance it in different ways. The camera we used was HQ and it definitely added a better look to the film as it was clear and of a high quality. It also helped when we were filming at night and the depth of zoom we used in certain scenes. The voice recorder we used for the voice-over was also HQ and helped make the sound clear.

Final Cut Pro helped us with the editing process as it had many features we used in our film to help develop it further. For example the colour correction which helped us play with the colours and lighting of the film moved our trailer a step further as it looked more professional and gritty especially locations such as the underground. Final Cut Pro also helped us with the vox pops and evaluation of the trailer as it allowed us to embed our Powerpoint slides and images. Additionally, it helped us embed our soundtrack for the trailer from Soundtrack Pro.

Other software we used were Photoshop and InDesign CS4. Photoshop was mainly used to edit images so we used it when making our posters. The effects Photoshop were great they were also quite similar to Final Cut. Effects such as the colour correction were similarly used in Photoshop and that's how this helped develop our brand identity. We also used Photoshop to edit the main image of the magazine. But the rest of the magazine was made using InDesign CS4. It had many effects that go into detail which only made InDesin easier to use. Effects such as the colours, shapes and outlines really helped bring out the best of the magazine as we added many elements to it which were influenced by Empire magazine and the Avatar issue specifically.

Soundtrack Pro is another software we used. Soundtrack was used to pick those different pieces of music that were added together to make our soundtrack. It had a different variety of music which really helped us pick out the right ones for our film. We used about 5 different pieces of music and put them together in the right order which went with the order of things happening in the trailer.

Powerpoint is the final software we used throughout the process of the film. We used it for our evaluation and pitch .

Blogger is where we laid all our work for the rest of the group to look at and edit and for our teacher to give us feedback on. Blogger was extremely useful when being used as a group as we all had access to it from home and we didn't have to be together as a group when working on it.