Panashe Sibanda Blog

Way before I began my media course, I was already implementing research and planning into my dauily life, as well as digital technology. I did this by taking pictures of other people as well as selfies, so I was then able to understand the use of framing, lighting and angling. My research and planning was done by looking at other celebrities/models images and copying the way they did their photos and putting it into mine. This has led me to gain a deeper understanding of how to use research and planning as well as develop my abilities in digital technology, which will then lead me to create my own product.

In media, technology is a very significant factor in how and what we create as media students and technology was of great importance when creating our summer horror trailers. During the planning of our trailer, our group had already decided to use the camera on my Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge to film the trailer. It was also used to edit the trailer and add different filters and effect such as the colour grading which is how the dark blue hue was created. Without digital technology, we would not have been able to film and edit our trailers at all. Before digital technology came into existence, it could be argued that peoples creative prowess could be considered as very limited. In the context of media, intertextuality is taking ideas from one form of text and inserting it into another but reinventing or re-imagining this idea. Bently states that creativity is "the making of the new is rearranging the old". In my media trailer, we had the idea of a final girl character and a kill