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

When creating our teaser trailer, we have to use a numerous amount of programmes to complete it. Different websites and programmes were used for different parts of the project. Photoshop was used to the ancillary texts like the poster and magazine cover. It was also used for a newspaper sequence that eventually was not put in the final trailer. Youtube was one of the most used of the four. We used Youtube for help with our trailer, to get ideas from existing horror trailers. It has also come in handy when using screen shots and finding different ways to shoot a horror. Blogger is obviously a main site that we used because we have placed everything that we have done on here like; research our final products, planning, montages, other horror trailers and lots more. Blogger is ideal for a project like this. Finally Final Cut Pro. This is my first time of using this programme, and at first I did not understand it one bit. But with a bit of help it became second nature and just got on with it. I learnt a lot of different things about this programme, such as; the fade in and out of a clip, adding sound effects, adding filters to clips and lots more. Without this programme it would have been very hard to produce the trailer that we did. We also used a lot of equiptment like Digital SLR cameras, recording cameras, tripods and lighting to get the best kind of shots we could.

Planning our movie wasnt that hard and didnt take us long to do. Each memeber of our group put different ideas in and we all pretty much came up with the same idea, the monster had to be a little girl. So we then thought of films that included children as the monster and came up with, Inception, The Ring and The Grudge. All of these movies feature a young boy or girl as the monster. We then went on to watch these three films and takes notes on the different techniques that were used to signify horror. After watching each of the films we went back to planning our storyboards which told us each shot, angle, speech duration etc.