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1. Luke McCarthy
Evaluation Question 4: How did you
use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning
and evaluation stages?

2. Ways of research
 - We gained ideas through watched a number of different trailers and
Swedes on YouTube, this was beneficial as we found different codes
and conventions and types of things we could use for film
 We gained ideas for Movie Posters and Magazine Covers through
looking on a number of websites, such as: www.pastemagazine.com and
http://www.creativebloq.com/movies these were good to use as it gave
us a wide range of ideas we could take ideas from and offered a range
of different posters, so we could find ways to make our posters look
different
 We also used the film education website in order to further expand our
knowledge on genres, this was key as it let us know what types of things
we could include to establish our film as a subgenre of thriller and teen
drama
 We also watched videos of using Final Cut Pro, so that we would be
more used to using it when it came to editing our trailer and would be
able to do more enhanced things with our editing, so overall our trailer
would be better
 We collected all the information we found through research and placed it
on Mahara, this was good as it helped to keep our work together and it
allowed us to continue doing our work constantly so we never fell behind
and we always new what we were doing next

3. Planning
 We planned out a number of things, such as:
 Making a storyboard on Amazon Storyteller and then uploaded that to
YouTube to gain feedback, these were both helpful as it allowed us to show
people the idea of our film and gain feedback so we knew if there was anything
we needed to change and ways to improve it even further
 We also created our own call sheets and risk assessment using Microsoft
Word before putting it onto Google Docs, these were good to use as it meant
we knew what shots we wanted to take and the location of the shots too, so we
knew where to go to take those shots, plus the risk assessment was key as it
stopped people getting injured and also made sure everyone stayed focused
and worked hard to get the shots we wanted to take
 We used Pinterest to create our mood board and also to create our pitch for
our film, this was important as established a number of things for our films,
such as outlining the genre and the storyline, so what the film was about
 We also used Moodle to gain information on for different tasks we completed ,
so this was good as it meant we kept on working and never went off task, so
we could complete all the work quicker and to a high standard too

4. Construction
 We used the canon EDS DSLR 550D digital camera to film our trailer ,
I enjoyed using this camera as it allowed as to get a number of shots
we wanted and was much more advanced compared to the camera
we used last year
 We edited our trailer by using Final Cut Pro, this helped as we could
add a number of effects to improve our trailer, such as changing the
colour of the shots, chnaging the speed and duration of shots and
adding in things like jump cuts, also here we added our tittles and we
were able to put everything together here, by adding in things like the
sound, montage and company ident to the trailer that were already
there
 To create our film poster and Magazine cover we used both
Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator, these were good to use as they both
in completing our final poster and cover, as we could do things like
adding the effects to create the type of poster which we decided we
wanted to make
 We got the sound for trailer by using GarageBand and through using
Freesound.com , this is important as sound is a very important thing to
a trailer, espcially ours as for the montage it made it seem more
realistic and also things like the music we had playing throughout
helped to create more tension for our trailer.

5. Evaluation
 For Question 1 I decided to create two different things to
answer the questions, firstly I created a YouTube video
with annotations to explain how our trailer used or went
against codes and conventions, I did this as I thought that
it was easier to show by comparing the two clips by playing
one after another so the reader can clearly see what I am
trying to explain. For the second part of that question I
used a PowerPoint to explain who we sued or went against
codes and conventions for our movie poster and magazine
cover, as I thought using still images would benefit the
reader and they can easily compare our to the others and
clearly see what I am talking about and thoroughly the
similarities and differences that there are.

6. Evaluation
 I decided to create a Prezi for Question 2, where I talked
about how our main products and ancillary texts are
effective, I did this as I thought it was a another good way
to present my work and it was easily to change the look of
the Prezi and was also easy to add in many images and
videos, so it was much more visual.
 For question 3 I once again decided to use a Prezi to
present my work discussing audience feedback and once
again I could easily add images and videos to help
become more visual and less tedious to read. And I just
enjoyed presenting it like this as it’s easy for the reader to
read and understand.
 And finally for this question, question 4 I decided to do a
PowerPoint once again, as I thought it would be beneficial
and this question I thought required a lot more analysis
and explain, so I thought doing a PowerPoint like this
would be suited for that, plus I have changed the them
compared to the last PowerPoint and added in different
images to make it different.