YouTube is a website on the internet in which enables you to explore videos in which users have uploaded. This includes music videos, trailers, documentaries, interviews and many more. We used youtube as our main research tool, we watched many trailers to get familiar with media conventions and get inspiration.Without YouTube it would have been much more difficult to explore different trailers and research different aspects of media texts. From using YouTube we were able to get ideas from other film trailers, such as the quotes from 'Remember Me' and the fading in and out effect from 'The Blind Side.'
Google (www.google.com)
When it came to understanding media terminology or anything else we were not sure of, we used Google to find out answers. Google is search engine, therefore we could type anything we wanted to know into the search bar and it would give us many answers. We also used Google to research into the different genres for our initial research when we chose to do a drama. However, due to the internet being sometimes unreliable this meant that at times we got different answers from different websites which lead to a bit of confusion. But the majority of the time Google was a very useful tool for our research.
iMovie (editing software)
When it came to editing our footage we had problems getting the footage onto final cut express, which is the software we wanted to use for editing. Last year when completing our AS coursework we had the same problem, therefore we knew that we had to use iMovie to export the footage into final cut express. Although we didn't use iMovie to actually edit the footage, it was still a necessary software tool to get us to the next stage of the coursework. We could have edited all of our footage on iMovie but we were more familiar with final cut express from using it to do our foundation portfolio (AS coursework).
Final cut express
We edited all of our footage to produce our film trailer on this software. We were already familiar with it from completing our foundation portfolio (AS coursework) therefore we could remember the main functions needed to edit our film. There was a few things we couldn't remember, and resulted to using YouTube to look at videos and tutorials which helped us a lot. We are now able to use nearly all of the functions the software can offer, and we were able to edit our film to a professional level. Without final cut express our film trailer would not have turned out any where near how we wanted it to. I have learned a lot from this software, I feel confident enough to edit any type of media text on it. 
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