Although, it could be argued that a fundamental key to constructing, researching and planning was the internet. The internet was use for a wide range of different purposes however, the main purpose was research. Research was a vital part of our project, the main websites we used were google youtube and twitter. Social networking sites such as twitter were used to aid our audience feedback. We posted our videos onto twitter so that we could get audience feedback. However, in terms of the internet youtube has been a massive part of our planning and research. The impact of the technologies today has meant that access is instant. This is similar for all media technologies with advanced technological development access to what you want via media platforms is instant and becoming more common in society. 
However, websites such as IMDb have contributed their role into producing our film trailer. Vast majority of our film trailer research was done using IMDb. Prezi was used to display most of our work as it was different and worked well. Soundcloud was used for our voice overs in our film trailer.
Blogger is an online website which allows you to construct your own blog. All of my posters were administrated using labels therefore they could be easily sorted and accessed. Without the application of using blogger my work would of significantly suffered as I would of had no way of keeping track on my work.
Different technologies are best suited for different people. With this mind with divided our group into job rolls for each member. Editing was our main issue as none of us had much experience using windows live movie maker, however this was overcome through practice. Additionally, following some controversy using windows live movie maker we had to use garageband which enabled us to incorporate voice overs as well as using background sound. Using garage band meant that we could also fade in and out the music more effectively.
When constructing media forms such as the film poster and magazine front cover I used a variety of different programmes that impacted on me being able to manipulate the perfect photo conveying the visual elements of our film trailer. Using serif page plus to construct my film poster and magazine front cover was a great programme
as it allowed me to easily move and change objects aswell as manipulate the page to best suit my target audience. By this I changed the visual style of my font making it bolder and wider to stand out. Additionally cropping my photos so they would fit perfectly on the page. In terms of editing pictures, this was done by using serif photo plus. I spent a considerable time editing photos so they would reflect the representation I was hoping for that would be appealing to my target audience. By this, I changed the saturation and the colour in several photos as it fitted the codes and conventions of an action genre film poster and made the picture more mysterious and iconic.
Prezi has also massively influenced the project. Prezi was used on numerous occasions, we first started using prezi to collaborate ideas for our presentation. Prezi is a very useful tool for presenting work as it enables you to embed videos and insert photos. Throughout the duration of this project prezi has been vital for presenting work and the free edition is still highly efficient.
The influence of technological convergence on the world of media today is massive. Technological convergence refers to the tendency for different technological systems to evolve towards performing the same task. By this, it means that everything is becoming accessible on different media platforms. With developing technology this impacted massively on our project as technological convergence has meant that through the computer we can now search the internet with the click of a button and upload photos from our mobile devices.
Difficulties
The project at times did not go as smoothly as we hoped. At times especially during editing and importing the data was a major problem and we experienced a wide range of different error messages.
"Unable to upload" "Error.Try again" "Windows Live Movie Maker Error" "Not Responding, Force Quit"
This was mainly due to the quality of the film being to high quality for the movie maker to render therefore it caused the program to crash. This also happened on garage band after editing our soundtracks and uploading the voice overs the program crashed and this impacted on us loosing all of our work which was highly annoying.
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