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

2. Introduction
• Today's world is entirely dependent on the
technology for its day to day functioning.
Similarly media studies is also influenced by the
different technologies present in the world.
Therefore my media project used many media
technologies present in the market.

3. WEBSITES
• Firstly looking at the websites, i used a range of
different websites for my trailer, poster and
magazine. Websites such as Google, Youtube,
IMBD , OCR Media Blog and etc were very
important for my research, construction and
evaluations.

4. • YouTube played a very crucial part in my research.
YouTube is the leading website in terms on online
video data base. This helped me in viewing many
trailers. Due to this I was able to learn many details
about trailers and was able to analyze them as well.
By constantly using this website I was not only made
familiar with the concept of a trailer but I was able
to compare different type of trailers. Moreover
YouTube also helped me in my post production.
Through this site I was able to learn much about
Adobe premiere cs5 and Adobe Photoshop cs5.
These tutorials were a great help for me in editing
my project.

5. • The OCR's media blog was another useful link. It
helped me understand the subject as it is. I was
able to see different kinds of projects and that
how they were carried out. Perhaps the most
important thing there was the examiner points
which showed how each project was scored. It
was a great help for me in terms of research and
planning, construction and evaluations.

6. • Websites such as Google helped me in research. It
allowed me to search for terminologies and basic
content which I used for in my actual research.
Other then this it also helped me in my project
construction as through Google I was able to
download the royalty free photos and fonts for my
A2 project. On the other hand I also used Wordpress
by making a blog on wordpress.com. it allowed me
to personalize my blog in any way possible.
Moreover due to the flaw less video embedding
options I was able to post my videos without any
hassle. It is a great tool which helped me in the
presentation of my portfolio.

7. s
• Prezi is a presentation software available to
everyone. It is a very efficient and helpful
product. It allows individuals to make
presentations in a very creative way. The best
thing about this software is that it can be used
for free. Other than this once the presentation is
made it can be easily embedded on to different
websites and can also shared with other people
through the means of email, social websites and
etc. It was used by me for my evaluations.

8. Softwares

9. m
• Here i will be mentioning Microsoft as it was the
major technology used in my project. I used
Dell's laptop which was using Microsoft
Windows. Since all the websites i visited and all
the softwares i used were on my laptop so its
safe to say that i relied heavily on Microsoft. It
provided me with the right type of Operating
system on which i was able to do my research( eg
use google), construct my product (eg use adobe
premiere cs5) and evaluate it (eg microsoft
word)

10. • Adobe is known around the world for its efficient
soft wares. Premiere Cs5 is Adobe's visual editing
software. The software has come along way since its
beginning and is used by many people. It is not only
user friendly but also allows the user to apply
absolutely any effect on the video. Since my AS i
have been very familiar with this software,
Personally i like it very much and was able to use it
very easily for my trailer. I did not only used it to
edit by trailer but i also made my production house
logo using this software.

11. • This is also Adobe's well known software for
photo editing. i was fairly new to this software
and had to spend a lot of time perfecting my
skills. I also had to take help from the internet in
order to improve my skills. I used this
Photoshop to produce my Film Poster and
Magazine Cover. Like Premiere it also gives user
the freedom of making endless changes to the
particular product. I was even able to import
fonts onto this software and features such as the
lassie tool proved to be very helpful.

12. a
• This is a new software i came across while
surfing the internet. I always wanted to give my
videos a good colour toning as it hides the
mistakes made while shooting such has over
exposure and it also gives a good feel to the
video. However, i also wanted to use prominent
colour toning as it helps set the mood of the
video. Therefore i used Magic Bullet looks. it
helped me a lot since it has options for presets
and custom colour toning. it was a very user
friendly software and i easily was able to use it.

13. d
• I used microsoft word basically for rough work. I
used it to write my script, compile my research
and planning and also make a rough draft of my
evaluations. The use of this software might be
taken for granted however it still is a very useful
software.

14. Gadgets

15. s
• I used Sony HDR XR550 camera for shooting
my trailer. It has an HD camera which shoots on
its own hardrive. The HDD storage was very
helpful since a lot of my time was saved. Instead
of capturing a dv i just had copy and paste my
footage. Some of the other great features this
camera has are automatic focus and steady
shots. I was familiar with camera which made
me use it to the best of my ability. it even
allowed to capture some beautiful shots.

16. s
• I used a Cannon DSLR 550 D to shoot pictures
to maintain continuity, to show my practical
work and also for my posters and magazines. i
used a DSLR camera to shoot high quality
photos. A good quality photo is a very essential
part of any poster or magazine.

17. s
• This was a very useful technology. External
hardrives helped me in transferring my video
and audio data. it also helped me in keeping a
back up for my data.

18. Difficulties

19. Youtube
Even though Youtube is a blessing but in the year
2013 Youtube was banned in Pakistan, i often
had to use different websites such as vimeo or
Daily Motion. Even though these are also good
websites but there content was not as large as
youtube's so obviously it was a big disadvantage
for me .

20. Aobe Premiere Cs5
• There were many problems i faced with this
software. Since my footage was full HD it was
sometimes too large for Adobe to process it. Often
just to render 5 minutes of footage it took me more
than an hour. This wasted a lot of my time and
caused hindrance for me. Other then this i
encountered a problem in my auto saving settings.
Due to this some of the files were over written and i
lost 2 days of editing. It was a huge problem since
this occurred near my deadline. However had to
again edit but i got the work done on time.

21. Electricity Cuts
• Over all the main problem i encountered was the
electricity load shedding. Since Pakistan is going
through an energy crisis we have electricity
shutdowns daily. This also often caused the
internet to disconnect which made research
difficult. This also made it difficult to actually
shoot the product since the indoor shots
required lightings.