New media technologies were used throughout the research, planning, and evaluation stages of the project. During research, websites like YouTube and IMDB were used to analyze trailers and audience feedback. Microsoft PowerPoint was used to create presentations analyzing key points from research. An SLR camera was used to take photos of cast members for ancillary texts, which were then edited in Adobe Photoshop. Planning was made more efficient through use of Word, email, and social media for collaboration. Adobe After Effects and YouTube tutorials helped with creating the trailer. Final evaluation videos were filmed using an SLR and edited together in Final Cut Pro, with supporting images found through Google and YouTube.

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

2. • When it came to research for our media product we had to used web 2.0 to go on
the search engines such as ‘Google’ to look up on websites like you-tube to
analyse the theatrical trailers so that we were able to follow the codes and
conventions we also went on sites such as IMDB to view audience research and
audience ratings lastly we went on Google images and imp awards to gain ideas
and inspiration for our ancillary texts we then made power-points using Microsoft
power-point analysing key points within the ancillary texts and uploaded then up
onto our blog .
CONSTRUCTION &
RESEARCH

3. PLANNING
For planning new media technologies made things more efficient and easy for example when taking photos of our cast for
our ancillary texts we used and SLR which we then upload the images onto a memory card making it possible for us to have
access to these photos whether we were in school or at home .we were also able to create several different layouts for our
ancillary texts using Adobe photo-shop and put them up on to social networking sites for feedback and make the changes
straight away and repost the changes right after. We were also able to write up scripts and filming schedules onto Microsoft
word and forward them as emails on Hotmail to fellow actors if they were absent. When creating our theatrical trailer we
also had some issues using adobe After effects and Live type so Jeff went on to You tube to view tutorials on how to achieve
what we were envisioning which made it much easier then chasing after the media technician. We decided to se an SLR to
film our trailer and before filming the trailer we made a short film to see how the camera look once we filmed it we
uploaded the footage onto the computers to edit the shots on final cut pro to see how the lighting, colouring and sound was
then look back to see what and how we would film for the trailer. During the holidays some of our group were away so we
used Skype and Facebook to contact each other to discuss what changes had to be made and how much progress we were
making.

4. EVALUATION
When it came to the evaluation we wrote up a short summary of what we were to say for
each answer and filmed our selves using an SLR camera we also put up what we wrote
onto the projector allowing us to look at the camera which was in front on the screen
instead of having us reading from a sheet once the evaluation was all filmed we uploaded
it onto final cut pro selecting the right clips to use and assembling them together for the
images we went onto Google and you-tube to copy and print screen images that were
needed and placed them to where they fitted in the answer of our question.