Learning new skills.

When we made our trailer, magazine cover and film poster we used a lot of new technology, which I hadn’t used before previous to this project. The first thing I hadn’t used before were the Macs. However once I played around with them for a bit I soon got the hang of everything on there. Another technology I hadn’t used before was the editing system final cut express. When we edited our 2 minute opening for our AS coursework we used pinnacle which looked a lot easier than final cut express, however we had a chance to actually edit something on there which was our music video. After editing that on there I got the hang of it and realised that it had more options than pinnacle which could benefit in our trailer.

We filmed using flip cameras which I know how to use, having one myself. We decided to use these as opposed to the video cameras because we thought as they were HD flips they would produce the best quality picture. When we came to upload our footage it was very straightforward which was a plus.

We made the soundtrack of our trailer on GarageBand which is a music editing system on the Macs. We decided to make our own music as we thought it would be fun to compose it to make it how we want it. Also we weren’t allowed to se copyright music. The program was fairly simple to use and there were many different options to choose from. We had some trouble in the group decided which sounds to use but I think we made the best choice in the end.

For our poster we had to use photoshop. I was aware of the program and had used it a little bit before, but I am now aware how many things you can do on it to edit a picture. I never realised how many steps people go through to edit something, especially with our poster. We also used photoshop for our GIF’s in the title of our trailer which was a little complicated to grasp at first but with some help with our members of our group I think it paid off.