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

Blogger

Blogger has helped us gather all our research and then therefore we have been able to put this into our trailer, magazine and film poster. The positives for using blogger must be that it is very easy to find the research we have found and made. Some problems that we have come across while using are that is very easy to forgot to post things you have learnt and found out. Also from time to time it doesn't necessary work at home.

Youtube

YouTube has been very helpful for us when we were needing to research other trailers. It has the vast majority of all films which has enabled to gather the information needed. The problems we encounted with the software was that at school it was very slow and time consuming. This may not be YouTube's fault but in fact the school connection. Overall we were happy while using this software.

Camera and tripod

The camera and tripod have been very useful. The camera has given us a clear pictures which has made our trailer look more realistic. The tripod allowed us to film fixed shots which improved the quality of our teaser trailer. It was very useful for certain scenes. The only problem we had with the tripod was that when we went out filming one time it was in fact broken so we found it difficult to film fixed shots. We also used a microphone to make the sound clearer. This added an extra effect to the trailer which improved it in whole. It enabled us to use the actual sounds rather than computer made sounds.

Adobe Premier Elements

Adobe Photoshop

We have also used other types of software such as photoshop, publisher and paint all to create our film poster and magazine front cover. These software's were very helpful as it enabled us to create a realistic poster and front cover. The positives with these software's were that they produced great quality pictures. They also had various effects to annotate the photographs. The negatives were that we found it hard to get used to at first. This was because it was the first we had used a software like this.

We also used different websites to find research and information for our teaser trailer. These were all really helpful as they allowed to see what the characteristics of a teaser trailer are. The websites included Wiki, Pearl and dean IDMB and many others.