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

During the duration of our filming, planning and research for our trailer we used lots of different means of new media technologies to help us make our media product the best it can be. Below I have listed and explained the different ways we used these:




Video Camera: The most important piece of technology was our camera as we able to film lots of footage, and movement shots. We used a member of our groups professional camera it was a Nikon d5200 with a 35mm fixed lenses and a slider. It had HD quality and allowed us to have amazing, good quality shots in our trailer. A benefit of us using a group members camera allowed us the flexibility to be able to have extended

Adobe Premier Pro: All the editing we did to create our final draft of our trailer was done on Premier Pro, I have knowledge on how to use this programme from AS media when we created a film opening. This programme allowed us to import all the footage from our video camera onto the computer whilst adding music, sound and effects. We used simple transitions such as fades to black and we sped up some of our footage to make it more intense and to help build suspense. Using Premier Pro for a second time has allowed me to overcome problems and find new ways of editing my footage.





iPhone 8: My iPhone 8+ was one of the main new media technologies that I used throughout my planning and research of my trailer. As it played a vital role within the communication of my group when it came to planning and arranging meet up times to film footage and to edit. We used email, iMessage, and snapchat to communicate and discuss ideas. The camera on my iPhone 8 is also very clear so I used it to take the picture for my film poster and magazine. I also used the Youtube app on my phone to research other phycological thriller trailers.






Adobe Photoshop: Photoshop has been a very important programme for me throughout the creation of our film trailer and planning and research. As my ancillary texts which included my film magazine cover and film poster which were both created on this software. I used many different editing tools on this programme when creating my media texts such as the gradient tool to make it look more professional and the cut away tool to deselect the images I didn't need. I also designed our film logo on photoshop so we had a lot of experience of using this programme. I used photoshop to allow both my media texts to both synergise my film.







Blogger: Blogger was very easy and simple to use and to upload my work onto. However I did struggle with importing images onto the site but I overcome these issues due to adapting to the website and getting used to all the different tools. I was able to access blogger via my macbook, school computers and my iPhone which made it simple to upload work wherever I was. The 'save' and 'publish' tool were also very effective for me to use to help me know what work I had unfinished.




Social media Platforms: We used many different social media platforms such as Facebook and snapchat to publish and promote our film which allowed us to receive feedback from a large number of people which allowed us to improve our trailer further. Facebook messenger was also a vital part of our communication of meeting up and discussing ideas as it allowed us to communicate with each other outside of lessons. I also had my notifications on for Facebook which allowed me to see when I had received a like or comment on our post on Facebook allowing me to quickly see feedback.