How did you use new media

technologies in the construction,

research, planning and evaluation
stages?
QUESTION 4
 Throughout the entire practical side of
media, I have used and experimented with
new media technologies.
 Firstly, I have used the online social networking site, Blogger,
to share and document all of my media work.

Having used this website before, I found it very easy to use and
update with new posts.

The website has also allowed me to create shortcuts to navigate

around my blog, whether that be by construction stage, or media
type. Also, Blogger allowed me to share different types of
digital media, e.g. text, pictures and video.
Scribd is another new media technology that I have
used in the research and planning stages.

This online tool allows you to upload your Word and

PowerPoint documents online and share them freely
to the public.

I found this tool very useful, especially when sharing

research notes and storyboard plans.
During the research stages, I often used Google as a
search engine to find out information on previously
made media products.

Searching for information on Google has often lead

me onto websites such as YouTube, Wikipedia and
Vimeo.
 Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, helped me
with my research when looking at previously
made products, giving me facts and figures.

YouTube and Vimeo are video hosting websites that helped me

find previously existing media products and analyse them myself
for first hand research. As YouTube and Vimeo are open to the
public, I was able to find and watch other people’s short films, and
from that I grasped an idea of the codes and conventions of short
films.
 The construction stage allowed me to use a
variety of different new media technologies. For
example, I used a DSLR (Nikon D300s) to film
and take pictures for my media products.

From previous experience, I have found that compact video cameras are of
low video quality and very limited with filming techniques.

However, with the DSLR I was able to zoom and focus with ease, and
found that the picture quality of the shots were significantly better quality.

When taking the pictures for the poster, I was able to manually focus on
the subject with great ease and was also able to adjust the aperture and
shutter speed to create a better overall picture quality.

To transfer these files onto a computer to edit, I used a combination on

inserting the SD and using a specialised cable.
 I edited the video clips on iMovie,
which is a movie editing program
for Macs.

The program allowed me to shorten, arrange

and edit the video clips with ease and also
enabled me with the tools to add titling and
other effects.
 GarageBand was another program I used
when constructing the short film, as it
allowed me to extract the audio clips from
videos and add them to my short film on
iMovie. I also used GarageBand and
iMovie to create my radio trailer.

I created and edited my radio trailer on GarageBand, using

external microphones to record voice clips. After converting the
radio trailer into a single audio clip, I then transferred it on
iMovie where I overlayed an image on the audio clip to make
the radio trailer into a video, which made it easier to upload.
Once I had completed both my video and audio clips, I uploaded
them onto my blog using the websites very own video hosting
site.
For my film poster, I used Paint Shop Pro to
edit the images and overlay different texts
and images. This program allowed me to
professionally edit the photographs, by
altering the colour, contrast and lightness.

When researching film posters, I noticed that they all

used a similar tall and thin font for the credits at the
bottom of the poster. I decided to research this
further on google and found a website that enabled
me to download the font named SteelTongs.

After download the font, I then used it on Paint Shop Pro to create
my credits. Once I was pleased with the final product, I uploaded it
onto Blogger.
Finally, when creating my evaluations, I used the program Keynote to
create powerpoint presentations.

Two out of four of my evaluations are simple powerpoint

presentations, which allow the reader to view each slide at their
leisure, by pressing a ‘next slide’ tab.

The other two evaluations are in the form of more complex

powerpoint presentations in which I recorded a voice over for and
timed each slide accordingly.

All four of my evaluations include images from both primary

resources (my own photos) and secondary resources (the internet).

Once I had completed my evaluations, I then uploaded them to either

Scribd (for the normal powerpoints) or vimeo (for the powerpoints
that included audio).