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

2. CONSTRUCTION
For the actual filming of my production, I used a Panasonic SDR-
H85 HDD camera, which I borrowed from college, this is of a
reduced quality however I knew how to achieve a respectable quality
from my AS piece. Once I’d filmed my short film, I uploaded my
recordings onto the Macs at college, we had to convert these into a
DV format to enable me to important these into iMovie. I then re-
ordered these clips, and cut the necessary clips to enable continuity, I
didn’t make much use of the editing software just simple cuts and a
cross fade as we wanted it to remain realistic.
When it came to my print products, I used a Sony still digital
camera to take our image for the film poster, we then used
Microsoft Publisher to edit this image by changing the contrast to
making it spooky, we also added our titles, tag line, logo’s etc. For the
film review, we used Microsoft PowerPoint to create a template for
our review, we chose to take a ‘freeze frame’ from iMovie to add to
our review to create cohesion with our short film. We then used

3. RESEARCH
Research is now much easier than it used to be this is due to the impact
of the internet, this allows information to be available conveniently. My
first task was to research into a variety of short films to find conventions
of my genre, but also to gain inspiration. I started with YouTube, where
I watched short films such as the short film ‘bump’. Using Google helped
me to discover the film ‘Blair Witch Project’ this was the big inspiration
for our short film. I then decided to do analyses of the clips and films I
believed was similar to my initial idea, and I typed these up on to
Blogger. I also chose to research into the ‘Blair Witch Projects’ directors
through Wikipedia, this helped me to understand how they were
typically recognised and what I could do in my work. Also for our target
audience research we used the Panasonic SDR-H85 HDD camera to
interview people, we uploaded this onto YouTube to enable us to put it
on Blogger.
I then chose to research into horror film posters, I chose to use Google
images to discover these, I found 3 posters I liked and chose to analyse
these I did this on Microsoft PowerPoint and then use Slide Share to
upload this onto Blogger.
When researching into magazine reviews I found there was key

4. PLANNING
I have to admit that throughout the planning stage I didn't actually
use many new media technologies, and instead used the old
fashioned paper and pen method instead. For example, brainstorming
ideas, writing the script, and creating a storyboard to help me with
filming. I also did a sketch design for a possible film poster idea. The
only new media I used was the Sony Still Digital Camera to take
photo’s of these techniques to put onto Blogger.

5. EVALUATION
To complete question one of my evaluation, I recorded a directors
commentary using iMovie by creating an audio file over my short film
then posting this onto Youtube. For question two and this one 4, I
created a Microsoft PowerPoint and again uploaded it onto Slide
Share and then onto my blog. In order to receive feedback for question
three, I uploaded my completed short film onto YouTube and used
social networking such as Facebook to promote it, I then created a
Wordle out of my feedback.