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

For research I used my own knowledge that I gathered through watching Television and seeing the types of trailers that were produced and seeing the type of shots and quality that makes a good trailer while also looking through the internet, mostly YouTube, and looking at trailers that related to the romantic-comedy, coming of age storyline we wanted to portray. While watching television commercials you are able to see advertising of a movie out currently through the smaller trailers, from the ones that are shown at cinemas, this gets great publicity for the product especially when it is the middle of well viewed television shows, like soaps or reality shows, so I realised that we needed to create a trailer which could be shortened and still look enticing to the audience. While watching YouTube, I was able to see a pattern with in romantic comedy trailers that shows the main character, their love interest, the background to their lives and then possibly family or friends with funny situations which shows the main character in a awkward or ridiculous situation. I knew if we were going to do a romantic comedy trailer we needed a basis of a storyline to work on for shots we needed to do.

During Planning I looked again at YouTube and the Internet Movie Database (IMDB) to see what common romantic comedies were out there so we could follow a trend but put our own stance on it. I found out that a lot of romantic movies were showing a man trying to get a woman, Remember Me, Beastly, etc. so I decided we should go the other way seeing as this was a romantic comedy, if some of the audience were going to watch guys be serious in love why not offer them women acting ridiculous? We went out with the camera and took shots of initial ideas we had, like our main character walked into a room and everybody stared at her because she was out of place, when she thought she fitted in and was being idolised, this got us onto the idea that I had planned.  I wanted scenes in this trailer to look like a scene I liked from 500 Days of Summer where a persons fantasy and reality were on at the same time, we used Adobe Premier Elements 8.0 to do this and after some initial setbacks it worked really well.

We used the Sony Handycam DCR SX45 Camcorder to record our shots and used the features provided to successfully upload our shots onto the school computer.  When we began the construction of the trailer we used Adobe Premier Elements 8.0 to put our scenes together however we suffered a lot with the schools instalment of this programme and at times were unable to save a hard, full days work of editing at times. We were able to move on from that and we found a way to work around it. Thanks to adobe’s simple editing system we were able to find media and bring it into our trailer quickly and with out a lot of problems.