How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning, and evaluation stages?
To film all of my own footage I used the Toshiba Camileo S30 HD Camcorder which turned out to be a very useful and and easy camera to use. Unlike other cameras, this one was easy to manouver and change its settings. As well as having a camera it is also important to have a tripod so that it makes it easier to film a shot and keeps the camera still.
The tripod I used was CAMLINK TP1700, very cheap and easy to use. Luckely the camera had a whole at the bottom which was small enough to screw onto the tripod and from then onwards my filming became easy and exciting. Before I did any filming I looked at the different camera angle shots that film makers use, in horror films, so that I could re-create similar shots from other movies, for example the close-up of the face of the girl from 'The Ring' is one shot that I re-created with my scary character. It is also important to get reaction shots, so I added that into my filming, when we see the reaction shot of 'Joe' scared.
To film this shot I didn't have the tripod standing, instead I corrected the position of the camera, lowered the height of the tripod, to make it easier for me to move, and zoomed in slowly whilst I was moving with the camera at the same time. 
The edit my clips and put them together, I first used Videopad Editor to put a couple of clips together before moving to, what I believe, the best editing software there is to use, Imovie. Both softwares were very handy for me because on Videopad I was able to remove sound from one clip and put onto another, as well as that I could extend the length of a clip before moving to the next software. Imovie just made so easy to edit my film. At first I found it hard to use because I've never used a software like it before, but after watching to tutorial that comes up when Imovie is open, I knew exactly how to edit my clips and put in the correct order that I wanted them until the last stage of editing where I had to chose a movie theme. There wasn't any themes that suited my trailer apart from one of them which was the one I ended up using. The reason why I like Imvie is because you can turn average videos into proffesional trailers with the sound, shots and film titles at the begining and at the end of the trailer.
To create my poster I used the software Photoshop Elements 8 and I have to say it was a really awsome software to edit images on. If you wanted you could keep adding layers after layers and create something amazing. This was what I did with my poster, after 5 layers I got the effect that I wanted from using some simple images of concrete textures. The comparison between the normal image to the final product is big. The lighting that I toned down is not even visible in the finished product. This also took me a while to get used to because I didn't know what was what and how to edit an image, so thankfully Youtube was there to save my life and the rest was history. To create a good poster from this fantastic software was very pleasing for me and I am very happy with the finished product.
Finally Weebly, just as I mentioned before, was very helpful. It allowed me to add as many images as I wanted or even as many columns to add text if I wanted. Changing the theme colours etc. And finally to publish my official web page online withought any problems was great.
I would like to say thanks to the creators of these great softwares, I don't know what I would have done withought them, and also the the people who upload helpful tutorials, and finally for the people who game me good feedback. This is how I media technologies to contruct my final three products and I am happy with the work I have done.
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