How did you use new media technologies in the

construction and research, planning and evaluation

stages?

New media technologies were a key part in the construction, research and planning stages in all

three of our media products.

Over the last ten years new media technologies have transformed a great deal which has made

creating all three of our pieces of work easy compared to what it would have been like before

TrailerWhen looking at influences for our trailer we automatically

assumed that things like YouTube and Google would have what we were looking for. This made the process of

researching and planning simple and easy. It also meant that the trailers or images that we did find online could be put straight into our blogs to look at when we needed to. This

option has not been around long as the first YouTube video was only published in 2005, meaning that if we had been set

this task before then it would have been difficult for us to find what we had been looking for.

TrailerWe were then able to upload other things to our blogs such as our storyboard and film schedule as

well as pictures that we had drawn up. We did this using a scanner. This meant that there was

always a copy of our work stored away to save us the worry of losing sheets of paper that we had

drawn on. As well as saving the environment as it meant that we did not have to photocopy the

paper to ensure that each of us had a copy of the work.

TrailerThe most important use of the new media technologies was in

our production stage when we had to use digital video cameras and digital slr cameras. Using these things enabled us to watch our footage back before uploading on another occasion to check whether we had shot what we wanted and to help us decided whether we may have needed to

shoot the footage again. If we did not have this option we could have wasted a lot of time uploading what we had captured onto a computer to find that we did it wrong

which would mean we had to go through the whole process again.

TrailerAnother big change in media technologies is the ability to edit your footage that you have shot.

You can do this using programmes such as iMovie and Final Cut.

Using software like this we were able to cut, copy, slow down and

speed up clips as well as add titles that we may have wanted. This aids amateur students such as

ourselves to make their products look more professional.

TrailerWe have also been able to create a

soundtrack to our teaser trailer where we could compose a song using different kinds of instruments usually GarageBand, using melodies and beats that we found on the

programme.This meant that we did not have to go

through the hassle of composing our own tune from scratch and then playing it

through a keyboard for example and record it. It has also meant that the sound quality

was good.

TrailerSomething that has grown a huge amount over the years is the

internet. We were able to research everything we needed to through it as well as find and download a font that we wanted to use for our trailer to help it be unique. There are millions of

websites on the internet that enabled us to search for the right type face and then download it in the right format that is

compatible with a Mac computer. All of this was free.

TrailerLastly to help us with our evaluation to post on our blog we have

been able to use many different programmes such as PowerPoint, iMovie and Word.

But we have also been online using websites such as Blogger, Prezi and Xtranormal. All of these things are new to the

internet and have aided us greatly with ensuring that we include many different new media technologies within our

work. We have also posted our products on Facebook where we have asked our friends to leave comments about it to help

us understand what is good about them and what is not so good and how we could improve our work.

PosterAgain just like for our teaser trailer, the internet was a great help as it enabled us to look at our influences for our poster and film and post the

images that we found on our blogs for future reference. After deciding on an image that we were happy with once we had looked at

many different influences we were then able to use a digital slr camera to capture images of our character and upload them onto the Mac.

We then had the ability to edit the picture that we chose with

Photoshop on the computer as well as add titles and retouch the image

so that it was exactly how we wanted it to look.

Magazine Front CoverAgain the internet played a big part in

putting together this piece of work. We mainly used Google images to

research our influences such as Odeon Magazine and Empire

Magazine. At times it was difficult to find enough

information on the magazines that we were researching but still it is

more developed now than it was 10 years ago and I’m sure things will develop more and more as time

goes on.

Magazine Front CoverWe were able to then post the image of our magazine cover onto Facebook to enable us to gain feedback from our friends to help us with

our evaluation questions.