Q4) How did you use new media technologies in the construction

and research, planning and evaluation stages?

Construction• For the picture edit of my film, I used Final Cut Pro. We

used it last year to edit our AS film so we felt more comfortable editing on it. As we had used it before, we didn’t come up against too many obstacles when it came to technical issues. However, because our film had such a strict structure, we struggled to be that creative when it came to the order of our scenes.

• Furthermore, the organisation of our footage became extremely complicated as we had hours of footage for only a five minute film. Instead of the footage to film ratio being 25:1, it was probably 35/50:1. This means that for every 35/50 minutes of footage we had, one of those minutes would make it into our film. This is one of the reasons that Editing on Final Cut Pro took longer then anticipated.

Final Cut Pro

Construction

• For the Sound Edit, we used Soundtrack Pro, this is an Apple Software that connects very well with Final Cut Pro which is extremely useful when it came to placing our film into Soundtrack Pro. This is where we were able to place sound effects into the film to increase the impact of the film.

• For example, in the scene when Roger hits the Zombie on the head with the Tri-pod, we added in the FX sound of a smash which increases the sound of the hit and makes it more realistic.

Soundtrack Pro

Construction• Lastly, for some additional effects, we used

Adobe After Effects. The main effect that we needed to place over the footage was snow. This is because on the day that we filmed, it was snowing. This means that some of our footage has heavy snow falling down and then some of the other footage has absolutely none. We needed to purchase and then download a special Plug-in to create this snow effect and then place it over certain clips from our film.

• This was very important for us to create continuity. We also used After Effects to make the sky look more red. This is to make the sky look blood coloured. This is because a Horror film is usually based around the colour Red as it connotes Blood.

Adobe After Effects

Research

• For research, we mainly used the Internet. However, we did also use Books from the BFI archive and Magazine Articles.

• The main Websites we used were IMDB, Empire Online, WikiPedia, Youtube, Blogger and Pearltrees. These really allowed us to gather a lot of important and useful research and informational in which we could use to better our own film.

IMDB

Empire Online

WikiPedia

Youtube

Blogger

Pearltrees

Research

•We also watched many Zombie Short films online along with a couple of Zombie Feature films. To find these feature films, we used Netflix as it has “Zombie” as a listed Genre.

Netflix

Planning• For planning, we mainly used CeltX as it is a free

download off the internet and it allowed us to write the script, organise shooting days and a character list. This was an open source software which means that the user can alter or improve the software.

• Due to our film having such a large cast and so many complex scenes to film. Planning was key to having successful shooting days and getting all of the footage that was needed.

CeltX - Script

Script - Shooting Days

CeltX - Character List

Planning• We also created our own blogs on Blogger to show

this planning and also to show how our research has developed over time.

•The blogs can be found at:

•www10222a2gabrieltoumazis.blogspot.com

•www.10222a2ben.blogspot.com

•www.10222a2tomtom.blogspot.com

My Blog

Evaluation

• As there are three of us in the group, and there are four questions. We discussed that we should do one question each on different softwares and then, as a group, film the three of us answering the questions as a film.

• Question one was made using a Prezi. This is an online website in which we created an interactive presentation.

Prezizizi

Evaluation•Question two is the question that

we will answer with a group video. We will all prepare an answer and some talking points and then film us all talking about them. We edited this video using iMovie as it was a quicker process as we didn’t have to keep rendering the footage and it was easier to export.

Our Video

Evaluation

•Question three was answered as a Blog Post. This blog post features audience feedback videos, stills from the film and other important information.

Q3 - Blog Post

Evaluation

•Question four(this question) was answered using Keynote. This is a very simple software to use. However, it produces a very professional presentation. It also allowed me to link certain pages to images(screen-shots).

Keynote