Essay

Describe how you developed your skills in the use of digital technology and evaluate how this contributed to your research and planning!

In AS our project was to create a front cover,contents page and 2 page spread for a music magazine. In A2 our project was to create a teaser trailer, a movie poster and magazine front cover.

In my AS project I used digital technology such as Google images, Microsoft Word and Slideshare in my research and planning. I used Google images to get pictures of front covers, contents pages and two page spreads to analyse and give me an idea of what my final product should look like. I then used Microsoft word to write down all the analysis that i had constructed before uploading it all to Slideshare in order to make it look neat and presentable. In AS I have definitely developed my skills in how to work Slideshare because before this course I had never heard of it before so had to learn how to use it and therefore developed skills in it. In my A2 work i used digital technology such as Google images, IMDB and my Iphone. I used Google images to get pictures of movie posters and front covers for movie magazine which i could analyse and give me an idea of what my final products should look like. I used IMDB to watch teaser trailers and analyse them to see what makes a trailer effective so I can make my trailer look as professional as possible. I used my Iphone to text and call my actors to make sure they knew what location we were shooting at and at what time we were doing so to make sure everything ran smoothly. I developed my analysis skills during my research and planning so that now I can do more in depth analysis of products and use them to help me with my projects.

In my AS project I used a programme called FindYourTribe which is an online quiz which puts you into groups of what type of person they think you are on the basis of how you answer the question. This allowed me to enter in the details of what I'm going to put in my music magazine to see which type of person i should aim my magazine at. In my A2 project I used IMDB to find out my target audience for my trailer. I did this by searching a film which was similar to mine e.g. 'The Social Network' I could see which target audience they aimed it at and aim my trailer at them as well. I developed my research skills in this in order to find all this information. This enabled me to make my trailer as specific to my target audience as possible.

I developed my skills from AS further to make my A2 project look professional.