The document discusses the use of new media technologies in different stages of a film project. Final Cut Pro was used for editing video shots and adding music and sound effects to create a teaser trailer. Mahara was utilized to keep track of research and planning during pre-production. Photoshop was employed in post-production to develop photos, create a poster and magazine cover through techniques like cutting out characters and adding custom smoke effects.
1. How did you use new media
technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation
stages?
2. Final Cut Pro
• When editing our teaser trailer we used Final cut to put together our
shots we had filmed and add all the extra pieces to create our teaser
trailer.
• We used final cut to add in the music we used and then added in
sound effects for different parts of the trailer such as a gun shot and
bullet drop.
• We also used final cut to cut together all of the shots we had then
worked out different shot orders we could use and played around
with different lightings till we settled on a saturated effect.
3. Mahara
• We used Mahara to keep track of all of our research and planning in
the pre-production stages of our teaser trailer. It has been helpful
when creating our teaser trailer as we all updated our journals on it
so we could check on pieces of research on someone’s journal if they
didn’t come in that day or so that we could save information for a
later date when looking up magazine covers or genre conventions.
4. Photoshop
• We used Photoshop in the post-production stage of our marketing
campaign. We used it to develop and edit our photos and create a
poster and magazine cover for our film.
• In Photoshop we were able to cut out our characters using the lasso
tools and magic eraser. I then used Photoshop tutorials to learn how
to create my own smoke without getting pictures of smoke off the
internet. I then replicated what I had seen and used it to create the
smoke for both pieces.
• We also used a number of different things Photoshop gives us, such
as changing the opacity of the text or use shapes and text to create
adverts and other parts found in film magazine covers.
