Media technologies within our research

Media technologies within our research

Research

 -Search Engines

Google, Bing, Yahoo:


To research for the information required, search engines were required to obtain the knowledge, as this is extremely beneficial, easily accessible and was the 'go to' information outlet.The most persistently used search engine by our group and
most likely by the majority of the population would be 'Google'
The reason for this is that Google generates more relative information than any other search engines even by typing a few key words related to the subject.
However, initially other search engines were used for example 'Bing' or 'Yahoo' but we found that Yahoo wasn't as effective, as not many search results were generated as Google. Bing was also used at first, but we found the same problem and some even go as far to say Bing is an acronym for 'Because It's Not Google', but this is obviously a joke shared by many, even highlighting the publics extending preference to Google.

Youtube:

                                             

Youtube is very effectual in the subject matter of research, as you are able to find very precise and relevant videos to aid in all aspects of production of the coursework. These videos are step by step and you have a high variety of videos if you don't like or find it hard to understand a particular video you watch, therefore making it an also great way to research. There is also many videos and clips of films already produced , or already created coursework pieces on Youtube in which we used for inspiration. To get a wider understanding on the genre of our trailer, we also watched many social realism trailers, alongside with this we had viewed many videos on masculinity and attempted to increase our knowledge and attain a broader understanding of how boys and men learn “appropriate” gender roles in accordance to the masculine expectations of their given society. As a result, we also had to understood that from very early on boys get messages on what it means to be a boy.

Survey Monkey:

When brainstorming our first ideas for the genre of our teaser trailer, we agreed on 'Social Realism'.
We then discussed what the theme was going to be and how we would portray the theme. It is essential to do research to get a better understanding of what the our audience would prefer. As a result of this, before creating the project, we created a survey on Survey Monkey, targeted at potential members the audience, as this is an effective way to gain information to help target our initial ideas on what would be more effectual.



As you can see we used Youtube to view the Rocky scene and we had been inspired by it, and created almost a mirrored scene.