Evaluation-PART THREE-

Evaluation PT 3

Right at the start of the coursework unit I began researching and planning times for my main task which was creating and developing a horror trailer. My ancillary tasks were creating two advertising products which were a movie magazine front cover for the film my group created and a movie poster for our film (The Possessed). I began using all sorts of media technologies, starting with internet based research sites to find texts that gained a better understanding for my horror film trailer. I researched horror trailers using YouTube to get ideas for the trailer, and my reviews of some of them are seen in my research section of the blog. Internet movie database (Imdb) was another website which was very useful. It let me find out facts about the films I was studying and also helped me work out even more what audiences liked and myself would help make a good trailer.

I watched and analysed a series of horror film trailers on YouTube both in class and at home to see different types of trailers out right now and past ones. These are in the research part of my blog. Three trailers which I covered in class for my trailer reviews were Pusher Trilogy (1997-2005) whose genre of the trailer was drugs/horror/crime. A second class trailer was Toxic Avenger (1986) a comedy horror and finally there was Day of the Dead (1985) which is a gory horror. All three trailers I had to mark out of ten to see was elements we could use in our own trailer. I then reviewed two films which were Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) to gain more of a perspective of horror films. I was able to watch trailers online to make sure I remembered the films in detail.

The construction side of my three texts (Trailer, Movie Poster and Movie Magazine front cover) I used media technologies such as Adobe Photoshop which was the most used program through my development of my magazine cover and poster. I used many effects on Photoshop like typography (with the 'fx' tool for stroke/outlining words), layering and colour filters plus a grain tool especially in my movie poster.

To construct the movie trailer we used 'Final Cut Pro', to edit and cut the right parts of the footage we captured on location. Final Cut Pro helped create elements such as collision cutting, transition with parallel sound effects to make the trailer sound perfect. We used online website sound devices like Sound Bible and Freeplay as these were free from copyright and so we could use their music/sounds on Final Cut Pro.

The last media programme I used was the main media technology which was Blogger. This was where everything went starting research, planning, products and evaluation. It made sure I couldn't lose any of my work as it stored all the information online. I used the program in the first year too for my music magazine work, but I really got to terms with the program more this year. I was able to embed plenty of videos and pictures to illustrate my points and overall I found all of the programs and websites very helpful. If it wasn't for them I think the trailer for The Possessed wouldn't have been as successful and praised as it is.