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

Problems With Technology

When researching into fonts, we tried to post examples of our selected fonts onto the blog for our audience to vote on their favourite. However, there was an error in this and we were unable to post the examples. 

When creating our website, Wix.com was unreliable as it constantly froze and did not allow us to access it. We worked around this problem by using time wisely and creating the website at home. Another common fault with wix.com was the lack of technology available. Many edits and effects were basic and did not create the professional look we were aiming for.

This problem also effected Picnik.com, however because we were creating a social realism poster, we did not need excessive editing as it needed to convey realism as much as possible.

We used the font SteelTongs to create the fine print used on our poster and teaser trailer. This font consisted of many shortcuts to create the different sized fonts and titles which are features of every professional film poster. This was an issue when using the Mac because the key functions are slightly different to a computer and so we had to create the fine print elsewhere and transfer it to the Mac.

When attempting to upload our final Teaser Trailer to YouTube we face many problems. The first was uploading the video, which would not upload from any Mac and so we had to burn a copy of the video and transfer it to another computer where we were then able to upload it.

When editing our Teaser Trailer on imovie we wanted certain effects that imovie did not have. We researched online and found a Plugin pack which had the desired effect which was called 'GhostTrails'. This effect was going to be placed over the shot of the mum poking the boy in the face to emphasise the violence. However, this Plugin pack could not be downloaded onto our imovie. This effect was also going to be used over the shot of the boy running which signified the boys desperation to escape his social class. Because we could not use the 'GhostTrails' the shot was not effective enough on it's own and so we decided not to include it in our final teaser trailer.