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

Evaluation Question 4

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

Pre-Production

BlogSpot (www.blogspot.com) – I’ve used BlogSpot to present my A2 coursework. This has included posting written information, video, scanned image, photographs (location shots, audience profiling, etc.) and screen grabs from websites like Google Maps showing location shots. This website has been regularly updated to keep a detailed blog of my activities involving the projects from this year’s work including the planning of projects, the post production stages and the final products.

YouTube (www.YouTube.com) – This site has been useful especially for finding other real media film trailers. This was extremely helpful when researching film trailers, this link is to my research booklet focusing on horror/thriller trailers from my project, all links taken from YouTube. http://a2mediastudiesblog-keeferbishop.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/trailer-research.html. Another use of YouTube is from my post about the film Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2011) http://a2mediastudiesblog-keeferbishop.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/dont-be-afraid-of-dark.html. I also used YouTube to post my voxpop and anamatic, which will be talked about later.

Google Maps (http://maps.google.co.uk/) - Google Maps has been used for half of my location shots. The street view function has worked really well in this situation. http://a2mediastudiesblog-keeferbishop.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/project-e-trailer-location-shots.html This is the link to my location shots post.

Voxpop – Here is a direct link to my YouTube video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BOiv1IC8J7I. This voxpop was a fun task to film and edit, it helped me work out the problems that an audience had with trailers.

iMovie – I used this editing software to quickly cut together my voxpop and anamatic (http://a2mediastudiesblog-keeferbishop.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/project-e-trailer-anamatic.html) of my storyboard.

Post Production

iMovie & Garageband – I used two programs to edit my film trailer, the first being iMovie to cut the clips from the film and animations together as well as adding title cards which were created on Photoshop CS5. The second was Garageband I used

Fireworks – This program was used to create the Stitched and Lifting Production logos. This was my first experience creating animations; I think they fit the trailer appropriately.

LiveType – This program was used to create the title cards of my original trailer, after audience feedback I then changed them using the program Photoshop CS5.

Photoshop – I have changed the titles with a font from Photoshop CS5. I think these title cards are much more effective.