When it came to creating our film poster and magazine I used the programme Photoshop. As I have to use this programme for some of my other subjects I knew how to use it, what techniques to use and what did and didn't look good. Therefore I was able to create both these products relatively quickly and accurately. I also had time to experiment with different colours and techniques to see which would be most effective. Here I have shown the print screens of different steps and techniques I have used throughout creating this product. I also used similar techniques when it came to creating the magazine. Overall I am really pleased we used this programme to create our film poster and magazine as we were able to create all of the techniques and styles that we wanted to. We were also able to manipulate the images in such a way which reflected our genre really well. If I was to create these two products again I would use Photoshop every time as its quick and easy to follow and gives you the freedom to do what you want with the image.
Garage Band:
Originally we used the programme Garage Band on the iMac to create the soundtrack for the non-diegetic music for our trailer. We wanted our music to start off slow and then build to an upbeat tune. We ensured we included drum beats and subtle guitars to do this. We got a lot of inspiration from the soundtrack used in the trailer for Public Enemies therefore we referred back to this quite regularly. As none of us in the group had used the programme Garage Band before it took a lot of getting use to but we spent a while experiment with a range of different beats to make sure we got the correct music for our trailer. We thought it would be a good idea to each make our own version of what we thought the soundtrack should sound like, I think this worked really well as we were able to constructively criticise each others soundtrack and then pull it apart and put together the sounds we did like and thought would work well. This really helped us to create our end soundtrack therefore I am really pleased we decided to do this. Although in the end we didn't actually use garage band it was really helpful to understand how it works as we may want to use the programme in the future, it also gave us as a group a good idea of what we wanted the soundtrack to be like in the background. Therefore I don't think we wasted anytime at all experimenting with Garage Band but instead gained knowledge. In the end we decided to use the song The Beast In Me sang by Jimmy Gore who is staring as our main character Tony 'Don' Milano.
Final Cut Express:
Final Cut Express is the programme we used to edit our entire trailer, unfortunately none of us in the group had used this programme before. This wasn't a problem as we had a tutorial before we started using it and as it was a really straight forward programme we didn't find it hard to get to grips with it at all. In the previous year of this course we had used Pinnacle and there wasn't much difference between the two programme, but we did find that Final Cut Express was easier to use therefore I'm really pleased we made this choice. I found final cut express to be really straight forward and it provided us with all the tools we needed for the job, I was really pleased with all the transitions and effects that we used and think it complimented our genre really well. The only thing that we did find difficult as a group was inserting text as we weren't actually able to crate text on Final Cut Express but instead we had to use the programme LiveType. But overall I am pleased we used a different programme to create the font even if it was time consuming as we had a lot more choice and it looked more professional.
LiveType:
We used the programme LiveType to create all of our fonts for our trailer. Our reason for this was that we were unable to create text on Final Cut Express. Although this would have been easier if we were able to do this I am really pleased that we used LiveType as we had a lot more freedom when it came to creating exactly what we wanted. We had a range of different fonts to chose from as well as styles, sizes and effects. No one in the group was actually sure on how to use this programme so we had to teach ourselves and ask our friend for help who knew how to use it. This was a really good programme to use and I am so pleased that we found out about it because it enabled us to produce fonts, styles and effects that looked really professional. I also think that all of our fonts worked really well as we kept the colour and style consistent for all of our titles except for our main title 'Grow Your Own' where we changed the colouring to red. Although this was a different colour to our titles throughout the trailer it made our title for our film stand out, it also kept a strong link between our film poster and magazine cover as both the titles for our film were also in red.
YouTube:
YouTube was a massive help to us when it came to developing our research. We often referred back to videos we had seen on YouTube to help us with our own work. We used this programme to look into film trailers such as Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Public Enemies etc. This really helped us as we were able to keep watching these videos and rewind them to keep going over certain shots and angles. We also used YouTube to listen to the music we think would work as the non-diegetic music for our trailer. Not only did we use this programme to watch film trailers which were in the cinema and are waiting to be released or already have been released but we also watched trailers other media students had uploaded onto there from other schools etc. We found this to be incredibly helpful as they also put what grades they had got from their trailer which gave us a rough idea what we should be aiming for. As some of us in the group are also visual learners this was really useful when we were explaining and sharing ideas with one another as we were able to keep good communication with one another which was a good factor in the group.
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