QUESTION 4:HOW DID YOU USE NEW

MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION,

RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?

Rhian Quammie

PREZI

• To help us pitch our initial idea to the audience, we created a prezi slide show. This helped us ensure that our pitch was interesting to our audience. Prezi is also very easy to use and can be edited by different members of our group with ease. We also used prezi in order to present our audience feedback. This made our audience feedback seem more digestible and understandable to analyse and take note from.

YOUTUBE

•During the research stages we often used youtube to research other teaser trailers similar to our teen drama genre. This was useful because there is a vast majority of teaser trailers on youtube which we could take inspiration from.

IMDB

• IMDB is a website where you can source information about films, actors, directors, production and distribution companies. This website was crucial in the early planning stages to see what films were under the teen drama genre and to see what themes were the least popular. This lead us to pick what the impact of social media has on an individual as we thought there was a lack of that amongst teen drama movies.

PINTEREST

• Pinterest in a site where you can collate images onto certain pin boards that relate to a certain subject. We decided to create a mood board on pinterest to show the things that we wanted to include in our teaser trailer. This was useful when it came to filming because we were able to see everything we wanted to include clearly and make sure that those things were included.

CAMERA

• When filming we used a Canon EOS digital camera. This camera was very useful for us as it was small se we could take awkward shots, such as the mirror shot, without the camera being seen. This meant that the camera was more mobile as we filmed a few shots outside around the college campus and it would have been impractical if we had a camera any bigger. Also when we took the shot of Jenny sat on her bed with her head in her hands, we had the camera almost touching the ground, so the size made it easier for the camera person to hold, whilst gaining the perfect shot.

FINAL CUT PRO

• In order to edit our teaser trailer we used final cut pro. Final cut is easy to use and allows you lay all of your shots out and watch them through before you properly edit as well as editing them all together to create the desired continuity editing. It allows you add effects and tranisitions to the shot to make everything run smoothly. But also allows you to change the colour of a shot and manipulate the saturation to achieve the desired look.

QUICKTIME PLAYER

•This is a useful programme of macs because it allows you to record the screen as you are working on the screen. This is how we achieved the animated titles in our teaser trailer which made the titles seem more professional.

GOOGLE DOCS

• We used google docs initially to type out our titles when recording them on quicktime player. We then used it to create the image of the social media logos in our magazine cover and film poster. We used google docs prior to making our teaser trailer, during the planning to write our script. This was useful as it could be shared with all members of my group and added to by each one of us.

MICROPHONE

•When recording the voice overs we used a microphone. It was useful to us because it allowed us to record our voice overs in a noisy class room with out the background noise being picked up.

PHOTOSHOP

• We created our magazine cover and film poster in photoshop. Photoshop was simple and easy to use and allowed us to do the basic things with our ancillary texts like layering them on top of one another. We were able to edit the backgrounds out of some of our images then collate them all in a way that looked professional. We were also able to change colours and manipulate the images to our liking.

FREE MUSIC ARCHIVE

•We needed to include royalty free music in our teaser trailer so we looked on free music archive to find a song that worked for us. WE searched things like ‘isolation’ , ‘lonely’, and ‘sad’. Eventually we found a song by ‘bensound’ that we thought was appropriate for the themes and tone of our teaser trailer.

DROPBOX

• As a group we created a drop box in order to store our unfinished poster and magazine cover. This was useful because we each worked on different computers and took it on turns to work on the poster and magazine cover. So when another person worked on it, instead of switching computers, we put the file in the dropbox so the other person could download and manipulate it some more. It was also useful when one person had an image that another group member wanted to use, we put it in the dropbox so everyone could access.

SURVEY MONKEY

•We used survey monkey to conduct our audience feedback. This was useful because it was easy to use and easy for our audience to access. It also gave us data analysis in the form of pie charts and bar charts once all of the surveys had been answered which made the data more understandable and easier to analyse.