AUDIOBOO

GLOGSTER

SONY A1

FINAL CUT PRO

PREZI

FACEBOOKTWITTER

PHOTOSHOP

SLIDESHARE

WORDLE

SURVEY MONKEY

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

KNOVIO

VIMEO

PHOTOSHOP

Photoshop was used to construct both the magazine cover and the film poster for our film. Before construing the ancillary products I had basic knowledge of Photoshop but I was keen to expand the skills I had, through producing the ancillary products and watching tutorials online, my skills have developed and therefore the ancillary products have been successful with the target audience featured in the audience feedback.

FINAL CUT PRO

We chose Final Cut Pro to edit our footage for our film trailer, this program helped us piece together our trailer effectively. Prior to editing, we spent some time getting to grips with the software and experimenting with different tools and aspects of the program to enable us to make our trailer as conventional as possible. We used transitions to help our trailer flow from one scene to another. We also learned how adjusting levels on the sound made a huge different to the outcome of our trailer. I found that editing video and sound was straight forward once I learned the basics of the program.

PREZI

I used the program Prezi to present my initial research regarding Connotations of ‘Slasher films’, I had never used it before and found it a different and more interactive way of presenting information. Its a more exciting program as it is a more sophisticated way of presenting information as oppose to a PowerPoint presentation, I will definitely be using this program in the near future.

AUDIOBOO

I used Audioboo originally to upload a trailer analysis for my initial research. I used this program again as part of my evaluation question. I liked this program as it enabled me to upload audio clips to my blog easily.

WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

I used Windows Movie Maker to present another trailer analysis I produced, this was one of the trailer analysis's that took a great deal of time. Firstly I analysed the trailer 'House of Wax' and then I chose the most important shots within the trailer which I needed to analyse in detail, I then recorded audio clips and dragged them into the timeline according to the part in the trailer I was analysing, it was very time consuming but helped me identify key conventions within ‘Slasher’ trailers

SLIDE SHARE

Slideshare was a program I used most, it is easy and efficient and I feel I will also use this program in the future. I made PowerPoint's, summarising Conventions of 'Slasher' films, to analyse one of my film trailers and to discuss audience theories. This program enabled me to upload my PowerPoint's to my blog as well as making them look more professional.

GLOGSTER

Glogster was an experimentation, I decided to identify conventions of existing film posters of the 'Slasher' genre using this program, it was fun and made the analysis look colourful and better to look at with use of funky arrows and a variety of text boxes.

WORDLE

I have used Wordle before and loved the idea of presenting information with words in an artistic way, I decided to use this program again to conduct initial research and to also summarise conventions.

SONY A1 & BUZZBI VIDEO RECORDER

We used a Sony A1 video recorder when gathering audience research, none of the members in my group had ever used one of these before so we had a go and found it straight forward to use. The video camera had a built in sound microphone so audio was collected as well as video.

BUZZBI VIDEO RECORDER

We used a Buzzbi video recorder to record audience reactions, as part of initial research. We used YouTube to upload, audience feedback and reactions.

Celtx

We used a program called Celtx to write our script for our trailer, I found it quite complicated when we were first introduced to the software by our lecturer. When we experimented with this software it became relatively straight forward. By creating our script on Celtx, it helped us greatly when coming to actually shoot the trailer.

YOUTUBE & VIMEO

YouTube and Vimeo are well-known websites and very easy to use, I set up an account so I was able to upload our video footage straight from my computer to YouTube and then put them on to my blog.

SURVEY MONKEY

We created a survey using Survey Monkey prior to producing our film trailer and ancillary texts to gain some more knowledge of our target audience and what things appeal to them. It was relatively easy to generate the survey, we could decide on what type of questions we wanted to be featured e.g. open or closed questions.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

We advertised our survey on our existing Facebook and Twitter pages, to encourage more people to complete our survey as well as generating a wider target audience.

We also used Facebook to get some audience feedback for our evaluation on our film poster and magazine cover.