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

One way in which my group decided would be an appropriate way to look at all the media technology that we had used would be to take photos of us holding the equipment. We each took it in turns in photographing each other holding the equipment and then I have uploaded the photos onto my blog. We have also used some other forms of media which I have discussed below:

Above Laura has taken a photo of myself holding the camera that we used to film our teaser trailer. We used the camera to record the action within our teaser trialer, this included a variety of the shots, movements and angles displayed within our film. The cameras that we used proved to be very reliable and record much of the action in fairly high quality, although not in the quality that we would have hoped for with our teaser trailer. If we had used a more expensive camera I believe that we would have really been able to improve the quality of our work however the camera had limits that we worked with and were still able to produce a impressive amount of work form. The camera we used mainly for the picture and the microphone for the sound however on some of the camera movements were not a lot of dialogue was spoken or we did not want to amplify any particular sounds we used the camera's microphone. The microphone on the camera again was adequate enough to use, however there was a lot of humming coming from the camera that we had to edited out using music and our editing equipment the make sure that the humming did not detract from the picture.

Here I have posted a photo of myself holding one of the microphones that we used in filming our teaser trailer. We used the mic. to pick up the sounds that we wanted to be heard clearly and that would appear on the teaser trailer while editing, this then gave us the option either amplify the sound or mute it. We decided in the end that we wanted to mute the entire trailer and only have our non-diegetic music playing.

We used a tripod to steady our shots while filming. I think this helps us achieve a professional effect and a better viewing experience for our audience.

During editing we all three of our ancillary tasks (teaser trailer, movie poster and magazine front cover) we used the Adobe software this included Adobe Premiere Elements. On here we edited together our teaser trailer, this gave us the option to cut together scenes, take parts of footage out, put in effects, speed up/slow down footage, reverse footage and enter in inter-titles. We also used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to manipulate the images that we used on our magazine cover and poster.

I used slideshare as a way to upload my powerpoints that we had created things such as our first draft of our storyboard and also by means of researching other film magazines and so on. This was also a useful way to translate my powerpoints onto my blog.

Blogger was the main piece of media that I have used to create my coursework and record the progress that I have made throughout the year.

I have used windows paint to print screen images and upload them into paint, I have then been able to cut out parts of the image such as tables and pictures that I have found useful during my research and planning for our teaser trailer.

We also used youtube to find other teaser trailers and study them we also had to create an account and upload our own videos onto this such as our teaser trailer and preliminary tasks, which meant people we also able to comment on them.

All of these media texts have been able to help my group accomplish what we have and also have given us the ability to have free range over our creative choices and where we have got our inspiration from.