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

Rohit Paul

I phone 5sFor the recording of our film trailer we chose to use Curtis’s I phone 5s as it takes videos and pictures in good quality. It was simple to use the 5s to record and take pictures because all you had to do was press the red button in the middle of the phone. Having the memory of 32GB means we had enough memory for all pictures and video footage and still have space to spare.

MacBook Air

At first I found it difficult to use edit software's on the MacBook as the it was high tech and mostly touch which was a bit complicated, after Curtis helping me I found it much easier to create a poster as simple and quicker to use for example only using one hand for editing and shortcuts.

ComputersFor all my media products (Film trailer/ magazine/poster) I had to use a computer to edit and create it. I had used the schools computer to create my productions as the they had all the editing and creating systems that were simple to use and also easy to access. I did not use my computer at home as it did not have the software's that were needed to create my media products.

www.dafont.com The fonts provided on word and photo shop wasn’t really what I was looking for, after looking at various other websites like www.picnic.com I thought dafont had the right amount of font that would suite our film products. Using the fonts provided by this website helped us create the magazine and posters so it would look good and suitable for the target audience.

www.picnik.com

At first I was looking into using a font from Picnik as it had more creative fonts from the ones on word. I ended up not using this website as you have to the pay for the fonts.

YouTube

I used YouTube mostly for research to look at different professional and student film trailers to gather ideas from. I used the IFC films opening clip from YouTube into my film trailer opening.

Slide share

For slide hare I used it as research to look at other students work for ideas and to see what they have done for there media productions. I also used it to upload one answer in this form of slide share as it can be viewed on the internet.

Adobe Photoshop

This was my first time using photo shop so I wasn’t really familiar with how some of the key aspects worked. After having my Media teacher help me on how to use some key tools it then became clear on what went where and what I needed to edit. After exploring what I can do with the software I now know it well and find myself more using Photoshop more as find it staright forward to make posters and magazine covers.

Adobe Premier Pro

At first I found adobe premier hard until we had a professional editor come in to guide us through the key ways on how create and edit a film trailer. Now I am confident to move clips and add effects to the footages to create a flowing scene.

Google Blogger

At first I found this a bit complicated as I was not familiar but after playing around on the blog I got used to how it works. Now I find Google blogger very helpful and useful as I am able to upload all my work online.