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

stage?

Video Camera – Used for filming.

Adobe Premiere Pro – Used for all

of our editing.

Headphones – Used to listen to

our film and music we wanted to use.

Small video camera – used to upload our film to

Fire Wire – Used to plug into the small

camera so we could upload our footage.

USB memory stick – Used to store/transfer pictures, music etc.

Tape – Used for recording

Computer – Used for researching and editing.

All of our work was created digitally.

Tripod – Used for holding the camera steady while filming.

We used Photoshop mainly for the construction part of our project. For example we used it to create our placards, and our magazine cover, as part of our ancillary products.

We also used it in the editing stage of our project; we had to create a new frame to cut out some people who got in our shot.

Through using Photoshop I learnt skills such as cutting pictures out and editing them

Premiere

We used Adobe Premiere Pro to edit our footage. We learnt many skills from this, such as how to change the colour to black and white and also how to use the ‘Colour Pass’ tool, so that we could turn our rose red whilst leaving the rest of the film in black and white.

Another skill we learnt through using Premiere Pro, was how to change the speed of our footage, so that it looked more authentic and old-film style.

Photosh

We used Publisher to make the draft of both our magazine cover and poster.

By using Publisher, I learnt skills such as how to create the basic layout of a magazine cover. I how to put shapes, images and text together to make an effective front cover.

I learnt how to test how different things looked together to get a rough

Publisher

PowerPoint

We used PowerPoint to create all of our slideshows. We used them in the research and evaluation stages.

Through using PowerPoint, I learnt skills such as how to make an effective marketing plan. We also used PowerPoint to make our pitch.

I learnt that PowerPoint is effective for

YouTube

YouTube is a website we used mainly in the research stage of our project.

We researched videos that were similar to ours in genre i.e. scenes from Titanic. We also used it to research scenes from Schindler’s List, where the little girl in the red coat, so that we could show our evidence of research for using our red rose.

Incompetech is a Royalty Free Music website we used to download music for our film from.

I learnt through using this website, how to search for relevant

Incompet

Slideshare is the website we used to upload all of our work, so that we could put it on our blogs.

By using Slideshare, I learnt how to make an account and how to upload things onto different websites, by

Wordpress is the website I used to create my blog.

By using Wordpress I learnt how to create a blog, upload things to it and comment on them.

The blog taught me how to show my work in an effective manner and keep it looking professional.

I learnt how to personalise my blog by

Slideshar

Wordpress