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

Another technology I used was YouTube. The reasons for using it was for the beginning of the course for the research which I done as a part of the early stages of the work and blogging. It was used so that I could research other trailers, look at the conventions of a thriller, and also get videos for my blog about the films which I had used to focus on for creating the trailer for my coursework. YouTube allowed me to access a large variety of film trailers and see what conventions would be ideal to use for my own film. I was also able to see the conventions of the other types of genres.

This is the logo for Blogger. This is one of the many technologies which I have used along with many others. I used this as a digital way of completing and presenting my A2 coursework as I did for my AS coursework last year. I used blogger to keep a record of my research and planning, and the decisions which had been discussed and made. Blogger was also used to show people what I have done for my coursework and it allowed me to get infomation and advice towards how I can improve my work, how i can gather more research, how to plan things better than I did with my AS work and to also state what I have done by putting theb evaluation onto my blog. Having everything online and to be accessed from anywhere helped me to complete tasked outside of my lessons, it also helped me to look at other blogs to see how they have done things to see if I can use any of it with improving my work or helping them to do better with their ideas etc. Using blogger also allowed me to use differnt forms of media to present work and insert different medias such as photos, videos etc.

This is the logo for Final Cut Express, this was used to edit the clips for the trailer, this was the programme we choose to use because we knew how to use it as best as we could and it also allowed us to complete editing that needed to be done to create and produce our trailer. The features which helped included; clip positioning, cutting clips, adding transistions, adding in texts etc. In our past tasks, we had never had any issues with editing, however, while in the process of completing the A2 trailer, we had some issues with the software which we needed to sort out as soon as possible as it was a last minute problem. This meant we needed to begin everything over again as when we opened it, it told us that the footage was not able to be seen whereas the sound continued to play.


This is iMovie. This helped us to create our trailer. This was the software which we used to edit the clips after the problems we had with Final Cut Express. The software gave us access to the same editing tools as Final Cut Express had. We had no problems with iMovie meaning that we had a good experience of using iMovie for the first time. Compared to Final Cut Express, it was less complicated even though it had the same features. Working out how iMovie works at last minute was hard to do, and the problem with Final Cut Express was one of the biggest problems we have dealt with in the production of our A2 work. However eventually we managed to complete it at high standards.





This is the logo for garage band. This is where we created the sound to put into our trailer. It gave us severial different options and instruments to choose from, we looked through them all and choose the ones we prefered which went with the synopsis. Once the tract was decided and created, we added it to the trailer by exporting it from garage band and then imported it to iMovie where the editing took place, this is when we was able to fit it in where we wanted and needed it to be going.

 

This is Photoshop. This is the program we used when needing to edit our images that were taken for both the magazine and the poster in order to make them appealing enough to allow us to create a successful promotional package for a film. We was able to remove anything we didnt want in the image, change the levels within the photos so they are better to look at and make the magazine and poster more effective as it draws them into reality as they look at it as the image were changed to suite the theme and film genre. We also completed simple edits that we found to remove things such as blemishes and unwanted marks. The reason for using this is because the making of a more visible keyhole shape within the poster image. This is easy to use, although things I have learnt in another lesson helped with my knowledge of how to use Photoshop. This caused me to know what I was doing to ensure that we got the best results from the images we took to be able to include in the magazine and poster, with turned out well then if we did not use this program.