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

1. How did you use new media
technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation
stages?

2. New Media Technologies
• Whilst undertaking my A2 Media Studies
practical project, I used a numerous amount
of new media technologies such as Final Cut
Pro X, YouTube and Adobe Photoshop. These
technologies significantly helped me in my
studies and allowed me to develop and adapt
my magazine front cover, horror poster and
horror trailer further.

3. • Whilst undertaking my A2 Media Studies practical
project, I was able to greatly develop on the techniques
that I had previously learned in AS where I created an
opening to a thriller film, I also used a different website
to the one I am using now Blogger to record
information about my horror production.
• In my AS Media Studies practical project I used Blogger
to record and update my progression with my thriller
opening however in A2 I used the advanced up to date
website which enhanced advanced media technologies
which is called Weebly, which I personally think is
much better than Blogger as the range of features is
more widespread.

4. Research and Planning
• Whilst undertaking research and planning for my
A2 practical project, the use of new media
technologies greatly benefited my ability to
produce tasks.
• For example when in the research and planning
stages commenced of my practical project I used
Prezi an online presentation software which is
more advanced than power point and has better
facilities and functions which helped significantly.

5. • Furthermore in research and planning, I also used
new media technologies such as YouTube.
YouTube was greatly beneficial when undertaking
the research and planning section for my A2
Media Studies coursework as it allowed me to
research previous film trailers. This again allowed
me to learn a significant amount by viewing
horror trailers. Also YouTube allowed me to
research the film trailers that I analysed in my
Prezi presentation.

6. Construction
• When undertaking the construction stages of
my practical project, new media technologies
were significantly efficient in aiding me to
create my horror trailer, magazine front cover
and horror poster.

7. • When I was creating my horror trailer, new media technologies such as
YouTube, editing software and cameras significantly helped me and the
way I was able to create my horror trailer sticking to what my target
audience wanted.
• When editing my horror trailer, I used the software Final Cut Pro X on
Mac’s it was very beneficial as it allowed me to edit my horror trailer plus
add in music, sound effects and special effects such as: Colour 3 Way
Corrector. New media technologies such as editing software enabled me
to edit my horror trailer to make it have more of an impact with my target
audience and therefore at the end they were all pleased with what I
produced.
• When filming my horror trailer, new media technologies such as cameras
were extremely useful as it allowed me to film in my house and outside it,
it was lightweight therefore I could easily move around with it than me
having to use a heavy weighted camera plus it was HD and was easy to
handle.

8. • YouTube was definitely beneficial before,
during and after the making and production of
my horror trailer. I was able to gain inspiration
from different horror trailers even those that
were hybrid genres so I had other dimensions
shown and I could see how they worked. I was
also able to upload my own horror trailer so
that it could be accessed from the Weebly
website page.

9. • When creating my magazine front cover and horror poster,
new media technologies such as cameras and Adobe
Photoshop allowed me to create and edit both items.
For example, when I created my horror magazine, I used
Adobe Photoshop CS6 to position the headings and sub
heading plus important information across the page.
In my horror poster for my theatrical poster, I used a camera
to take a photo of the demon – Insanity. After this had been
taken I transferred it Adobe Photoshop CS6 where I added the
necessary text and changed the composition of the image to
make it appear darker.

10. Evaluation
• When undertaking the evaluation stage of my
practical project, I made sure I used different
combinations of new media technologies such
as: Prezi, YouTube, Xtranormal , SlideShare
and GoAnimate to answer the four
evaluations questions.

11. • I used new media technologies such as Prezi,
SlideShare, Xtranormal and GoAnimate to
upload presentations to my blog site on
Weebly. These websites allowed me to answer
the evaluation questions with great depth as I
was able to significantly elaborate on key
points with the use of images, embedded
videos and created animation slides/video
footage.

12. • Plus within the construction stage of my
practical project, I used the internet efficiently
so I could copy the web address of created
presentations from Prezi, Xtranormal,
SlideShare and GoAnimate and use the
custom http choice to add the web address so
it would appear on my Blog Page without
having to open up another internet page and
searching the address to go to the actual
website.

13. • I believe that using new media technologies in my A2 practical
project was significantly beneficial as it allowed me to use new and
advanced innovative methods of showing, distributing and
displaying information.
• I was also able to use many of the new media technologies such as
YouTube, Prezzi SlideShare, Xtranormal and GoAnimate to present
the content that I created in a professional by presenting it on my
blog through Weebly .
Ultimately, I believe that new media technologies have allowed me to
create a fantastic end product through the use of certain websites such
as: Prezzi, SlideShare, Xtranormal, GoAnimate and Weebly and
software's such as Final Cut Pro X and Adobe Photoshop CS6 which has
allowed me to create a final product which most definitely wouldn’t be
achieved if these new media technologies were not accessible.

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