Evaluation 4

How did you use new media technologies in the construction

and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Digital Photo Camera

I used a digital photo camera to get the images for my poster, magazine and trailer. I used them along with a tripod to get steady shots to make it look more professional

Photoshop

I developed a range of skills in Photoshop to enhance my products, I used this tool to create the layout for my poster and magazine, to edit the images and to select the text I was going to use on my products. I also used this to create intertitles by importing fonts from ‘dafonts’ and then importing these images to my trailer.

Final Cut Express

I have developed skills in final cut express as it has allowed me to learn techniques such as how to edit shots, shorten shots, in my rough cut it shows I learnt how to overlap shots to have the same person in a shot twice. I also learnt how to overlap sound, unatatch sound from the clip and also more this sound around.

Garage Band

I used garage band to come up with a practice sound mix for my trailer and it worked well however with all the editing within my trailer it was easier to not have to import it and continue to change but simply have it within final cut.

Blogger

Blogger was a useful tool to have in compiling all my research and production stages in an orderly fashion allowing me to look back easily and edit appropriately. This was a good way of gaining feedback as I would show people the blog with my products and ideas all in one place to allow them to feedback appropraitely.

Prezi

Prezi was a new skill I learnt as I had not encountered this tool before. This allowed me to be organised about my ideas and be creative with the presentation to make it more interesting rather than text heavy options.

Social Media

I also launched a facebook page and twitter profile trending hashtag flipping to gain interest as would be done on a real media campaign.

However social media was used mostly to get feedback for my poster, magazine and trailer by posting and asking audience to feedback meaning I got a range of responses.