Youtube - researching existing teaser trailers, looking at the different horror conventions used in each teaser we found. For example low lighting, fast paced music, all the conventions that we needed to include in our own horror trailer.
Freesound.org - slow and fast paced music used in our trailer.
Freeplaymusic.com - for music and sounds in trailer
Garageband - making the hissing sound for the ending of our trailer.
Photoshop - making poster and magazine cover, using many different effects Photoshop has to offer to create a horrific effect.
Blogger - for blogging our work, much more convenient than the traditional pen to paper essay, easy to add extra text where needed.
Tripod - for a steady camera.
Video camera - for filming.
Digital camera - taking still photographs for poster and magazine cover.
Final cut - for putting our trailer together, adding music and various effects.
Mac - we wouldn't have got far without it
Final Cut Pro was very complicated when we first used it. It took a few times of use and being taught different techniques to get the hang of the different things you can do. I did quite enjoy using it after a while, it was very easy to change the clips to add different effects that we wanted, for example fades and making daylight clips look like night time for an eerie feel.
Finding a good soundtrack for our trailer was quite difficult, we had to look through many different ones before we found what we wanted. We needed a slow yet eerie track in the beginning, yet a face paced, still scary, track for the fast cuts towards the end.
I like your last comment - very droll. BUT AGAIN too undeveloped. You need to reflect on each of the STAGES mentioned in the question. For example, in evaluation did you find working with a blog and flickr helped you extend your ideas, or be clearer, or did you think that using a more traditional form like an essay would have been better. How did you find getting to grips with FCP during post production? What difficulties did the soundtrack present you with and how did you use tech to overcome them?
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