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

Research

Youtube- I used this website to find existing trailers to take inspiration from and analyse. Youtube was very useful because of how easy it is to find videos.

Google- This website was very useful for searching information about certain films I wanted to research and Google images made it easy for me to find posters and magazine covers.

Production

Camcorder- We used a few different types of camcorders depending on which were available at the time and they were used to capture footage for the trailer. It was a very vital piece of equipment in this project.

Canon 1000d- This is the camera I used to shoot photos for my posters and magazine. I preferred this over the college cameras because it captured more detail. I took my photographs in light then made them darker also. Because taking them in darkness just made them blurry without a tripod.

Final Cut Pro- This is the program we used to create the groups version of the trailer. I wasn't really a fan of this program because it was a lot different to ones I was used to.

Sony Vegas- I prefer this program to edit with, and it's the program I use on my home laptop. I used this Vegas to edit my version of the trailer.

Abobe Photoshop CS4- This program I used to produce the magazine cover and poster. I find Photoshop very easy to use so this made it very easy creating my ancillary tasks.

Planning, Evaluation and Research

Blogger- This website was very essential when uploading my writing and images from my computer to the Internet. I have uploaded here my research, essays, screenshots, and final products. Using blogger, being online made it very easy for me to do work at home and not have the trouble of keeping my paperwork organised. I have also used this to evaluated my project.

Flickr- This site I used to upload my images to then show on here. I used Flickr because it enabled me to annotated screenshots. It also uploads images to look very sharp as other sites can make images loose quality, so I used it to upload my finished pieces on.

Youtube- I used youtube to upload the trailer to show on here. Youtube is efficient when it comes to uploading as it gives you an embedded code which allows you to show the video in other places such as this blog.