Web 2.0...
Years ago people had to research out of books from libraries, however, modern technology now lets us find information at home. Web 2.0 is a term to describe new and advanced technology. Using Web 2.0 allows low budget film makers like us to browse and collect information from websites such as Blogger, Flickr, YouTube and Google. Through the use of Web 2.0 it has been very easy to research and make my main products.
Flickr- Flickr is very popular, it is a website where you can share personal photographs and videos. Flickr is very easy and quick to annote your work as you could add notes to different parts of the image you would like to write about. This then gave me a good idea on making my magazine cover and my poster. I feel Flickr is a great way to share images and is a more creative way of evaluating your work.
Blogger- This is the programme that we put our coursework on. It allows you to edit your blog so it shows the genre you are studying. It is also very easy to use and is very clear, you can go back and edit certain posts whenever you like. When writing posts, you can change the font, size and colour. You can also add images and videos to it as it is linked to YouTube. I feel using a blog is a fun way to present your work rather than lots of paper, this just shows how much technology has changed.
Google- Google is a worldwide search engine which was very useful. I used Google throughout my coursework as it was the best way to collect research and information on previous media products. 
Adobe Photo Shop- Photo Shop is a graphics editing programme which came in very useful when making my ancillary texts (magazine cover and poster). As I have Photo Shop at home I was familiar with it and found it very easy to use. It allowed me to edit my photographs I had taken and add text, it has a lot of effects that I could use to make the text more effective.
Apple Mac- The Apple Mac was the most useful and important technology for our post production and probably the whole project. We used an Apple Mac to create our teaser trailer on by using Final Cut Pro. Within the programme it allowed us to capture all of our footage and then store it, then to put it in the time line and edit it. Every person in our group found it hard to use at the beginning but we soon got used to it and found it easier to use the longer we spent on it. Adding and deleting certain parts of our clips were very easy and made it easier to experiment with footage. The Apple Macs also had a programme called Garage Band, this is a music composition software where we could record voices or you could create original sounds. We found this very easy to use. As well as that, you can use Live Type. Live Type is a programme where you can create titles, within this programme you can change the colour of the font, the effects and much more, also, it is quite easy to use and easy to export to your trailer.
Iphone 4S- I used my Iphone to contact other members in our group when we were filming and meeting to organise our shoots etc.
YouTube- I used YouTube throughout my coursework, mainly for research and planning. From this website I could look at existing horror trailers that I could add to my blog, I then could analyse the trailer and gain knowledge of horror conventions. Our finished teaser trailer was uploaded to YouTube, as it is a worldwide website it is one of the best sources of gaining feedback as people can either 'like' or 'dislike' the video or even comment on it. This was played to our media class through YouTube which helped with our audience feedback.
Digital Camera- I used my Samsung digital camera to take pictures for my ancillary texts. With the pictures I took I put onto a memory stick to upload. This was very easy and quick to do.
Video Camera- A video camera was used to film our footage for our teaser trailer. We found it very easy to use and often used the tripod when we wanted to capture clear and effective shots. Sometimes we shot it hand held as we felt it worked better with the horror genre, it also allowed you to play around with the shots more.
A reasonable annotated list of the technologies. BUT: Final Cut Pro was the most important tech for the post production (and arguably the whole project) and you simply don't give it enough space. You should take a screenshot of your timeline, and either explore it with Flickr notes or crop bits of it and discuss it - focusing on particular tools and techniques that use used in order to create your final piece. Secondly, the question asks you to explore all three stages of the production - R & P, construction, and evaluation, so take each in turn. Thirdly, for the evaluation part, you should think about the pros and cons of using Web 2.0 apps like Blogger. What is better about it, and what worse, compared to more traditional methods of evaluating educational projects?
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