Q4

Q4

• 1.
  How did youuse new media technologies in the construction, research, planning and evaluation stages?
• 2.
  CONSTRUCTION For the actual filming of my production, I used a Panasonic SDR-H85 HDD camera, which I borrowed from college, this is of a reduced quality however I knew how to achieve a respectable quality from my AS piece. Once I’d filmed my short film, I uploaded my recordings onto the Macs at college, we had to convert these into a DV format to enable me to important these into iMovie. I then re-ordered these clips, and cut the necessary clips to enable continuity, I didn’t make much use of the editing software just simple cuts and a cross fade as we wanted it to remain realistic. When it came to my print products, I used a Sony still digital camera to take our image for the film poster, we then used Microsoft Publisher to edit this image by changing the contrast to making it spooky, we also added our titles, tag line, logo’s etc. For the film review, we used Microsoft
• 3.
  RESEARCH Research is nowmuch easier than it used to be this is due to the impact of the internet, this allows information to be available conveniently. My first task was to research into a variety of short films to find conventions of my genre, but also to gain inspiration. I started with YouTube, where I watched short films such as the short film ‘bump’. Using Google helped me to discover the film ‘Blair Witch Project’ this was the big inspiration for our short film. I then decided to do analyses of the clips and films I believed was similar to my initial idea, and I typed these up on to Blogger. I also chose to research into the ‘Blair Witch Projects’ directors through Wikipedia, this helped me to understand how they were typically recognised and what I could do in my work. Also for our target audience research we used the Panasonic SDR- H85 HDD camera to interview people, we uploaded this onto YouTube to enable us to put it on Blogger. I then chose to research into horror film posters, I chose to use Google images to discover these, I found 3 posters I liked and chose to analyse these I did this on Microsoft PowerPoint and then use Slide Share to upload this
• 4.
  PLANNING I haveto admit that throughout the planning stage I didn't actually use many new media technologies, and instead used the old fashioned paper and pen method instead. For example, brainstorming ideas, writing the script, and creating a storyboard to help me with filming. I also did a sketch design for a possible film poster idea. The only new media I used was the Sony Still Digital Camera to take photo’s of these techniques to put onto Blogger. I think we didn’t use as much new media as in planning
• 5.
  EVALUATION To complete question one of my evaluation, I recorded a directors commentary using AVS4YOU by creating an audio file over my short film then posting this onto Youtube. For question two and this one 4, I created a Microsoft PowerPoint and again uploaded it onto Slide Share and then onto my blog. In order to receive feedback for question three, I uploaded my completed short film onto YouTube and used social networking such as Facebook to promote it, I then created a Wordle out of my feedback. Although I used a lot of new media in this stage, it wasn’t as necessary