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

2. Photoshop enabled me to construct both the magazine cover and the film
poster for our film ‘The Last House’, as it let me manipulate images and
adapt layouts according ‘Slasher’ conventions I had researched. Before
constrtucting the ancillary products I had basic knowlege from AS
however, when creating products for my advanced portfolio I was able to
manipulate images using curves and blur tools, I wasn’t aware of how to
use theses tools in Photoshop in AS. I feel that my knowledge has
developed over the two years and that I will be able to take the skills I
have develop within Photoshop and use them in the furture to create
products.
PHOTOSHOP

3. We chose Final Cut Pro to edit our footage for our film trailer, this program
helped us piece together our trailer effectively. Prior to editing, we spent some
time getting to grips with the software and experimenting with different tools
and aspects of the program to enable us to make our trailer as conventional as
possible. We used transitions to help our trailer flow from one scene to another.
We also learned how to adjust levels on the sound, which made a huge
difference to the outcome of our trailer. I found that editing video and sound was
straight forward once I learned the basics of the program.
FINAL CUT PRO

4. I used the program Prezi to present my inital research regarding connotations of
‘Slasher’ films, I had never used this software before and found it a more
interactive was of presenting information. Its a more exciting program to use and
a more sopisticated way of presenting information as oppose to a Powerpoint
presentation. Prezi enabled me analyse and pick up on important connotations in
detail, where as in AS I produced powerpoint presentations when conducting
initial research, which wasn’t as fun or interesting to create.
PREZI

5. I used Glogster when analysing posters, the software enabled me to place my
images of ‘Slasher’ posters alongside each other and made it easier for me to
identify the conventions within the series of posters I had analysed as part of my
research. I was able to further identify the differences. This is significantly
different from the research I conducted in AS during my foundation portfolio as I
examined each magazine cover in isolation rather than placing them side by side
for instant comparison.
GLOGSTER

6. Wordle enabled me to make a collage with words to summarise connotations of
the ‘Slasher’ genre. In AS drew out mind maps for this and then scanned them on
my blog. Wordle was easier enabled me to expand my knowledge of digital
technology.
WORDLE

7. I used AudioBoo to upload audio files easily to my blog. This software was
something I had only discovered when creating my advanced portfolio project. I
analysed trailers for my inital research and as part of my evaluation. I found it
easy to analyse trailers by talking about them as the analysis meant I had to think
on the spot.
AUDIO BOO

8. Slideshare was a program I used most , it is easy and efficient and I feel I will use
this program in the future . I made PowerPoint's , summarising Conventions of
'Slasher ' films, to analyse one of my film trailers and to discuss audience theories.
This program enabled me to upload my PowerPoint's to my blog as well as making
them look more professional .
SLIDE SHARE

9. I used Windows Movie Maker to present another trailer analysis I produced,
this was one of the trailer analysis's that took a great deal of time. Firstly I
analysed the trailer 'House of Wax' and then I chose the most important shots
within the trailer which I needed to analyse in detail, I then recorded audio
clips and dragged them in to the timeline according to the part in the trailer I
was analysing, it was very time consuming but helped me identify key
conventions with in ‘Slasher’ trailers better than the ways I researched in AS.
WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

10. W e used a Sony A1 video recorder when gathering audience research , none of
the member in my group had ever use done of these before so we had a go and
found it straight forward to use. The video camera had a built in sound
microphones audio was collected as well as video.
We used a Buzzbi video recorder to record audience reactions, as part of initial
research. We used YouTube to upload, audience feedback and reactions .
SONY A1 & BUZZBI

11. We used a program called Celtx to write our script for our trailer, I found it quite
complicated when we were first introduced to the software by our lecturer. When
we experimented with this software it be came relatively straight forward. By
creating our script on Celtx , it helped us greatly when coming to actually shoot
the trailer.
CELTX

12. Y ouTube and Vimeo are well - known websites and very
easy to use, I setup an account so I was able to up load our
video footage straight from my computer to Y ouTube and
then put them on to my blog .
YOUTUBE & VIMEO

13. We created a survey using Survey Monkey prior to producing our film trailer and
ancillary texts to gain some more knowledge of our target audience and what
things appeal to them . It was relatively easy to generate the survey , we could
decide on what type of questions we wanted to be featured e.g . open or closed
questions. I had used Survey Monkey in AS however, I didn’t feature a range of
questions like I did in A2 which gave me greater knowledge.
SURVEY MONKEY

14. We advertised our survey on our existing Facebook and Twitter pages, to
encourage more people to complete our survey as well as generating a wider
target audience. We also used Facebook to get some audience feedback for our
evaluation on our film poster and magazine cover .
SOCIAL NETWORKING