How did you use technologies in the construction of your media production?

Film trailer:

For the post-production of our groups work, imovie was used. This vital software was used to cut down our footage to the length and place where we desired. I-movie also allows you to record voice overs, whether that be for a narrator for the movie or trailer, or to be used for voice over when the place in which we filmed was rather noisy. Our group didn't think of this during filming, and therefore i-movie thankfully had this option.

All footage was shot on samsung F80 camcorder throughout the production of our trailer. It was then uploaded on an SD card to iMovie, the selected clips where then dragged onto the timeline where we were to cut them down and edit them. This tool would be something that we use a lot, as a movie has many quick cuts to get the effect of a trailer. Without this tool, we wouldn't have possibly made an effective trailer on this software.

We used the trim and blade tool to cut the footage into the desired length, in accordance to what we wanted for our final production piece. However things weren't as easy as we once thought. Filming scenes where there was a high amount of background noise meant that watching the recording back would be highly fuzzy and definitely not look professional in our trailer. We thus decided on recording a voice over for each of these scenes, so the sound would be as clear as possible.

We therefore used the voiceover and inserted in the place which would be most suitable with the video. 

Title sequences were used in the trailer to make it look like a real trailer, this was made in iMovie also.   This is where we typed the text and then could change the background of our slide, to something suitable for our genre of our trailer. We then could decide what transition to use, whether that be of a sliding or fading transition etc. This also helped us to narrate the trailer, rather than with actual narration, as we wanted purely music, as well as the actors voices playing in the trailer. 

Film poster:

For the film poster we used a Canon EOS 450D digital SLR to take pictures of the two protagonists in our trailer.

The pictures were shot in front of a white screen, and the flash was used from the camera for a professional looking picture.  Once we had taken the picture, we opened it in photoshop where we generally airbrushed the picture, to make it look as professional as possible. We went against the general conventions of a romcom poster, as the female protagonist is seen as rather flustered, and generally quite unfeminine.

We used the magnetic lasso to cut out both our figures so we would be able to select a background of what we wish for our poster. In the long run, this would make it much easier for us to pick a colour or image for a background which we really desired.

We used "dafont.com" to select a text for film name "Gertrude" called "cheeky rabbit". We chose this font as we wanted the film trailer to have an indie vibe about, like that of other independent films. This font is something that we strongly believe goes in accordance to the genre and the main target market; women. We also chose this text because its distinctive and we believe isn't a text in which is used often or at all for movies.

We used a pink/purple colour for the font, as we believed that it set ourselves apart from other movie fonts which use generic colours such as red, black, blue etc. Again, this would appeal to the main target market; women, without being too in your face or bright.

We used a grey background, as we felt that this completed the general colour theme of the movie, that being of pink and white. We generally wanted a simple background, with nothing too busy as we wanted the picture to talk for itself. We feel this added irony in the sense that their lives, those of the protoganists are far from simple, or black and white...or grey for that matter.