Evaluation 4

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

During my project i tried to use as many different forms of technology whether it was new to me or not; this was for a number of reasons to find new ideas; develop them further make my blog more interesting to look at and new ways in which to record ideas.

RESEARCH:-
during my research stages the only forms of technology i really used was the Internet, websites such as Google where i searched in different genres to find out the criteria of them this led me to decide what type of genre i wanted to do; once i then found that out i used websites such as YouTube where i would search for trailers however YouTube was most useful to me when i didn't know what i was searching for; for example i typed in the word "obsession" and found a very useful perfume advert where the echoing effect of the voice overs inspired me to do voice overs in my trailer to make it more eerie. Google also helped me decide what form of target audiences i should be looking at; with facebook/my-space pages for films to see what sort of age group the followers were.

PLANNING:-
With my planning is where i became adventurous with different technologies to make my blog more interesting i used the in built webcam on my laptop to film me recording notes which i would then have to upload onto YouTube then copy the embedded code into my blogger. I also used Pod casts; these where harder for me to figure out how to get them onto blogger and i had to use you tube and wikihow.co.uk to figure out, i had to record my voice onto my phone then upload it to itunes change the format from MP4 to MP3 then upload to a website called podbean then straight from there i could upload to blogger. I made slide shows using several different websites such as flickr; photo bucket but the one i found in the end which was easiest to use and upload to my blog was Slide share.

Construction:-
This is where i was partly able to adapt and grow my skills from last years AS media using Photoshop to make my magazine front covers and my poster; this meant that i picked Photoshop up again quite quickly so it wasn't difficult for me to use, i even learnt to do some new effects such as animating my picture to make it look as if it was drawn. However using Imovie for mac computers took some getting used to as it was a completely new programme to me however i used the Apple help website and soon learnt how to use it with ease being able to cut, add effects and transitions to scenes. The programme came with sound effects which meant adding the effects like the heartbeat was a lot easier than i thought and with out the programme i wouldn't of thought about them so it also helped me develop my ideas.



This is the programme i used to make my Music; i added a video because it is hard to explain how i used it. Its called Garage Band and it is for mac computers; it made my search for someone to make my music for me a lot easier as it made it possible for me to make it with a whole library of sounds and beats which are then easily put together by me to make a backing track however it does take some getting used to and took several attempts to get it right. I mainly stuck to Pianos but also added in a few violin beats and drum drones to add to the eeriness.

EVALUATION:-
the technologies i used in my Evaluation are similar to the ones i used in my Planning mostly i used Podbean to make a podcast ; i scanned in photos of my questionnaires; I used YouTube to upload videos for my evaluation which with some of them i edited together on Imovie. I made a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint which i then saved as a mov. format so i could add it to YouTube then blogger.

without the different technologies my coursework would of been a lot harder as i needed them to help me gather together research with ease; i did come across a few problems but all in all it did make it easier for me, and more entertaining.
If i had more time i would of made a Facebook page as i wanted to; to get some quick audience feedback however in the end i decided against it because it would actually take a lot of time to handle with making sure no one posts anything not worth while etc.
Part of what i found out was that even without expensive high quality equipment to edit and to make my trailer and other medias i still managed to produce a good convincing product, this shows that it is possible to make Horror movies on a very small budget and without amazing technology to develop it.