How did you use new media

technologies in the construction and

research, planning and evaluation

stages?

Matt Duval

How did you use new media technologies in

the construction and research, planning and

evaluation stages? Throughout our research, planning, and evaluation

stages we used a variety of new media technologies.

For example during our research we used lots of web 2.0

based websites. To research current short films from

professional and amateur film producers we used a

variety of different sites. Some of the websites we used

include:

http://www.youtube.com

http://www.futureshorts.com/

http://www.indiemoviesonline.com/free-movies

New Media Technologies – Research

Being able to look at real short films over the internet

gave us a good idea of the codes and conventions of

short films. Because of the internet we were able to view

thousands of short films online for free online for free

saved us lots of time and allowed us to view a larger

range of videos from all types of producers.

New Media Technologies – Planning

To plan my work I used a website called Toms Planner

(http://www.tomsplanner.com)

This website is a great tool that lets you make and share

a Gantt chart. Using this online software allowed me to

share the chart with my media partner.

It helped me to keep on to make sure that all of my work

was completed and that I hadn’t missed anything out.

I could of made a Gantt chart in excel or on paper this

would of been harder to share and edit.

This planning tool is a great use of new media

technology.

New Media Technologies – Construction

We used new media technology in the construction of

our film. To film our short film we chose to use Canon

MD 205 digital video cameras. To edit the video we used

Apple iMovie software.

Digital videos can be edited and transferred much

easier than traditional film cameras. They are also much

less costly and simpler to operate.

The videos are already in a digital form so can be easily

uploaded to YouTube

New Media Technologies – Construction

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We also used Compact digital stills cameras to take

pictures for our poster and magazine review. To edit the

pictures and media texts we used adobe Photoshop CS3

Because the photos are digital they can be edited and

transferred easier than traditional 35mm cameras.

Another benefit of digital photos is that they can be

uploaded to photo sharing websites like

http://www.photobucket.com – this means that the

images can be embedded on to our

blogs.

New Media Technologies – Evaluation

For my evaluation piece I decided to use Microsoft Office

PowerPoint 2007. I used this because it is easy to split

the document up into slides, add pictures and make

internal and external hyperlinks.

I then used SlideShare to embed the presentation onto

my blog.