Evaluation 4: How did you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

We used a lot of technology to produce our teaser trailer, teaser poster and magazine front cover.

Equipment for filming:
Camera- We used an ordinary standard camera to film our teaser trailer. We learnt from filming, that the footage that we got doesn't look the same on the big screen this is due to many different things like lighting and the camera being shaky. We did have problems with the lighting for this trailer, because most of the trailer was done in pitch black with very limited amounts of lighting which means that the camera had problems picking up the images on the screen and constantly went out of focus, which made it very difficult to film as we thought that the film was good but the quality was actually very poor. Another thing we learnt from using the camera was the zoom on the camera also made it lose focus and these two things made the filming very difficult an time consuming.

Tripod- We used the tripod to put the camera on which allows us to film shots that are much steadier than if we just used our hands. The tripod could be made bigger and smaller which means that we could add shots that are from different angles and different heights. We did have some problems with the tripod, these problems include the bit connecting the camera to the tripod was sometimes not there so we couldn't film as we would want to.


Editing equipment and research:
Computer- The computers that we used for our editing were quite slow and there aren't very many computers in the school that has the software installed on them and because there are quite a lot of people that do media in our school so the computers are limited to the amount of students that are doing it. We also used the computers for research and planning and for our ancillary tasks.

Adobe premier elements- This is the software that we used to edit together our teaser trailer, we used adobe to create our titles to put into our final product. We found it quite difficult at times with the editing of the film because the computers were quite slow and the film jumped so was very difficult to judge.
YouTube- We used YouTube mainly for our research as it allowed us to do some thorough research into similar teaser trailers, which will allow us to look at some that we can take ideas that we like from and some things that we don't like so specifically would not include. We also put our final piece on YouTube as we ask people for feedback on it.

Blogger- We used blogger as a place to put all of our research, planning and evaluation on to and we used it like a diary, with anything that we did to do with media we wrote up about it.

Slideshare- We used this to create powerpoints that could easily be put on the blog.

IMDB- We used IMDB for research into products that are similar to ours and so we can get ideas and statistics about other films in the same genre.

Pearl and Dean- We used Pearl and Dean as a major tool in our audience research, this is because it showed us what type of people watched the films that are similar to ours and so we could base the audience that will watch ours on others that are similar.

Creating the poster and the magazine front cover:
Adobe photoshop- We used photoshop to edit the photos so that they fit in to our ancillary tasks better, for example making our magazine front cover into black and white which makes the photo fit into it more.

Adobe Illistrator- We used this software to put the images together that was created on photoshop.