Digital technology
- using garage band to create sound for my products
- how to cut and copy sound
- learning how to use photoshop to manipulate images for products
- cropping, and editing the contrast and brightness of an image
- using in design to create a double page spread
- how to place images into indesign
- learning how to use video camera's and professional cameras to create professional products
- learning what certain buttons do and testing different ways to achieve different shots
- using after effects to create inter titles, using video's to animate my inter titles
Research and planning
- finding out codes and conventions of professional products by looking at successful products posters and trailer
- learning how to represent a certain genre by analysing how other products represent genre by using specific features such as colour schemes
- learning how to promote products as a package from looking at other promotional packages and learning how they connect with each other
- how to create brand identity
- Seeing the standard of images used in professional products and learning the quality they need to be
- learning the length of typical trailers and shot lengths such as horror shots being short in order to create suspense
Post production
- using final cut to bring shots together in order to create a trailer
- how to use final cut, opening video files and editing them to make a trailer
- importing sound files from my documents into final cut
- I have also learnt how to resize images
- how to edit text such as applying strokes
- Conventions from real media texts
