Identify 4 R&P technologies:
- YouTube
- Prezi
- Photoshop
- Tiki toki

Used YouTube to research existing horror film trailers of various sub genres, such as slasher, supernatural and zombie.
Used Prezi as a form of presenting research and planning work, to make it more creative instead of just putting it straight onto the blog.
Used Photoshop in order to create the poster drafts, and to edit the images we were experimenting with for both the poster and the magazine.
Used Tiki toki to create a timeline, to do with the horror genre research.

To research horror trailers that are already out there, in order to get ideas from them to use in our own trailer, developing or challenging conventions seen in these. Using things seen in a creative way, not just copying.
To meet the audiences expectations. They would not want it to get boring, and it would do if it was all presented in the same way, so using a different presentation software met the audiences expectations. Also, it develops our creativity, as we are presenting our work in unique ways.
Used Photoshop to meet audiences expectations. They would be expecting to see a well-developed and high-quality image as the main image on the magazine and poster. Therefore, by using this software program, we could edit the image, so that it would reach the satisfaction of the audience. We were able to change the image so that it looks more like an image used for horror. For example, by using more low key lighting, which would make the image appear darker than before, giving it a more meaningful and eerie atmosphere and feel to it.
To creatively explore genre. Instead of doing a timeline on something such as Word, which would be boring, we did it on an actual timeline presentation software. Develops creativity as we are using a program that we had never used or even heard about before, but we are now using it to our advantage by making use of it.

Used YouTube as part of our research because we wanted to view various sub genres of horror. By doing this, we could pick out common things seen in each of the sub genres, meaning conventions of them. We were then able to choose which sub genre we wanted our horror teaser trailer to be. Watching these existing trailers from YouTube meant that we could use certain things that are in the trailers of our sub genre, and get ideas from there in order to be creative. Also, we could see how effective all of the trailers we watched were, and which ones hit you the most, so those would be the ones we attempt to follow, in order to create a successful trailer.
Used Prezi as part of our planning because we wanted to create something unique and interesting for the audience to read. Furthermore, we wanted to communicate with the audience effectively through this presentation software, as it is not just writing, there is creative animation that goes with it to make it more enjoyable for them and easier to get through. Also, by creating presentations in this software, we developed our skills, as we were now capable of creating a successful presentation on a new software that we hadn't previously used.
Used Photoshop as part of our planning because we wanted to get the best quality image we possibly could for our main image on the poster and the magazine. We made sure that the images were visually pleasing for the audience, and that they were what they would expect to see as the images for a horror poster and magazine. To get them looking the way they should, we edited them in Photoshop to make them look darker, create more shadow on the side of their faces, and to make the images as a whole stand out more.
Used Tiki toki as part of our planning because we wanted to create something unique and interesting for the audience to view. We felt that it would be best to use a new software to develop our planning, as this would not only allow us to present our work in a different way, but it would also help us to develop new skills in this program. We also wanted to creatively explore genre, and to become more creative when it comes to research and planning as well. We believed that a timeline would show the development and history of horror film trailers to the full, and Tiki toki is a software, especially designed to create timelines, which is why we used this program.

Using YouTube was successful in meeting audience expectations as by watching a number of horror trailers, we could gather the best bits from them and use aspects of them in our own trailer. We were able to see the basic layout of a horror teaser trailer, such as the equilibrium and the disequilibrium, which is what the majority of the trailer is. The resolution, that comes at the end is not usually shown in the trailer because the makers of it do not want to give the ending away. YouTube was also successful in that it met our needs, which were to be able to watch lots of horror trailers in an efficient and effective way. Also, it was useful as we could view a horror teaser trailer of any sub genre we wanted just by typing it in, and trailers of that sub genre would appear. This is because we had to watch different sub genres, in order to choose which sub genre we wanted our own trailer to be, and to see which necessary conventions and stock scenes we should follow. This all shows that we were creative in using YouTube.
Using Prezi was successful in meeting audience expectations as it meant that they could view our presentation in a different way. It also met expectations as the audience would be more likely to read it all as it would be easier for them to get through, rather than chunks of text. Prezi was a creative way of presenting some of our work as there were animations, as well as writing. Text is in different sections of this software as well, so it is easier to split up the different parts.
Using Photoshop was successful in meeting audience expectations as it allowed us to have images for our magazine and poster of great quality, as opposed to images that look blurry or do not fit in right. The poses in the two images are right as what the characters are doing in them fit who they are, and what they do within the trailer. This was made possible due to the use of Photoshop when editing these images. For the image in the poster, we could make it even darker than before as the antagonist was in it, and for the image in the magazine, we could make one side of the protagonists face dark and the other light. We could also make her eyes stand out more, as she is supposed to be represented as scared as the antagonist is behind her.
Using Tiki toki was successful in meeting audience expectations as a timeline, showing the history of the horror genre, would work extremely well as they would be able to clearly see how the genre has developed throughout the past 100 years. Not only that, but they would be informed about some information of the horror genre from each decade, from the 1920s to the 2010s. Also, they could watch the trailer of one of the most popular, if not the most popular, film from each decade. This would mean that the viewers could see how the trailers have developed and become much more intriguing, as the early trailers had few camera shots and were black and white, and the most recent ones are very advanced technologically, through the use of many camera shots, editing, sound and mise-en-scene.