The document summarizes the various media technologies used by the student at different stages of their media project. In the planning stage, the student used blogs, YouTube, and slideshare to organize work, gather feedback, and publish findings. Photoshop was used to edit photos for advertisements and magazines. iMovie was used to edit video clips, add sound effects, and produce the final video product. The student experimented with different editing techniques in iMovie like adjusting contrast, adding transitions, and zooming to enhance scenes.

1. Media Evaluation 4 How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

2. Blog Through out my project I kept track of all my work on an online blog using blogger.com . This allowed me to keep organised by storing all my work in one place, and prevented me loosing any work. This link was then passed on to my teachers and examiners for marking.

3. Youtube.com Other side I used to post my work was youtube.com. After production I uploaded my trailer onto youtube so it was easily accessible. This also allowed me to gain feedback and advice from spectators.

5. google.com was used continuously in all stages of my project. This was for many things, as I find it the most effective search engine. For example I searched for various help forum websites through out using iMovie, as there were some features I didn’t previously know how to use, such as adding a backing track.

7. Photoshop I used photoshop to edit the photo graphs for my ancillary products. This software had all the features that I needed to use. For both the advertisement poster and magazine cover I began by editing the contrast and saturation of the photo to give me the right brightness and effectI wanted. I experimented with this feature until I was happy with the result. For the magazine cover I also edited the colour filter, allowing more red light in to add a chilling effect to the image. From this point I began to use the crop tool to fit the images to size, the magazine cover images didn’t need editing. However the poster needed cropping around the edges as the model was too small in proportion to the background. Once the images were the right size and colour I layered the models using the ‘magnetic lasoo’ tool. This meant that I could add in a background image behind the models. This was used for the advertisement poster, to include the height chart behind the model I added the image in, and ‘send back’, and final I edited the transparency to make it more discreet. I didn’t want the lines taking the attention away from the model.

8. Photoshop continued After these stages I began adding the font surrounding the images. With the magazine cover I used a variety of the pre set fonts, sticking to sans serif as it is looks more basic and simple , rather than being too eccentric. In order to include the ‘sanctuary’ logo I added the font as if it was an image, using the magic wand tool then selecting the inverse. This was used in all 3 tasks, as I also used it to create an image for the opening scene of my trailer. I never linked any of the layers, keeping them all separate in case any needed deleting or moving individually. Through out the process I experimented with different size fonts, images, colours etc until I was certain ot my end result.

10. The first thing to do was upload all the video clips, this was a simple automatic process. Once uploaded I viewed all my clips, deleting any I felt were of no use.

11. From this I picked out the clips I wanted to included, cropping the section of the clip I wanted. Once placed together I rearranged and recapped over and over again.

13. iMovie continued In some scenes, such as the one shown and others involving font, I changed the start at stop point of zoom.