New media technologies used included YouTube for analyzing films, tutorials, and uploading the finished film. Social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook were used to promote the film and communicate. Blogger was used for group and individual blogs to upload work and evaluations. Other technologies included a HD video camera and DSLR camera for filming, a MacBook Pro for work, Final Cut Pro for editing, USBs for file storage, Photoshop for ancillary tasks, and PowerPoint for presentations.

1. By Vishoswastik Ravindran
Question 4: How did you use
Media Technologies in The
Construction And Research,
Planning And Evaluation
stages?

2. What is New Media
Technology?
New media technology is to demand access to content on
a digital device, like internet, video games, computer
multimedia, websites, DVDs and CD's, so its basically
anything that transfers information through digital
technologies. It was established in the 20th century so it is
very current and relevant. From the computer, came the
web, then came social networks and web pages e.g.
Facebook and blogspot. Obviously "New" media
technology is media that is current like DVDs, smart
phones, MP3 players which are all media of today.

3. During the pre production phase of our course I used the
video viewing and uploading site, YouTube to analyse two
short films relating to the genre of our short film.
YouTube was also used in the during the production of the
film as I watched several short films for new inspiration for
my own production whilst looking out for codes and
conventions.
What New Media Technologies did I use
throughout the course of this project?

4. YouTube- Post Production
I used YouTube in the post production stage of the course
as we had to upload our finished film onto YouTube, as
well as annotating a copy of the video for the evaluation
stage. YouTube was also very useful for tutorials and such
on things like Cinematography, editing for both the film
and ancillary tasks. Through these tutorials my skills on
software's such as Photoshop were improved.

5. Twitter and Facebook
Using Twitter and Facebook during our production was
another way we gained a greater audience and better
publicity for our film. These social networks helped us
promote and get feedback for our film from our target
audience.
These social networks were also used as a form of
communication over the holiday period where we didn't
see much of each other as there was no school, so we
would directly message them on these two platforms.

6. Blogger
Blogger was used throughout the entire production of our
coursework as had two blogger accounts, one was for the
group and one was an individual blog.
Our group blog was designed for everyone to upload their
work that they had completed according to the production
schedule so we could keep up with what we had and
hadn't done. All members had access to the group blog so
view and upload documents whenever they wished to.
Our personal blog was used to present our ancillary tasks,
analysis of short films and our evaluation.

7. Bubbl.us
This was used in our pre-production stage of the film, it
was used to brainstorm our initial ideas on the creation of
the film. Using Bubbl.us helped present our ideas a lot
more clearly and made it very presentable as well as
creative on our actual blog.

8. HD Video Camera
This camera enabled us to shoot our entire production,
we chose the video camera due to their high quality which
adds to the chic touch of the finished film and shows
professionalism and used to put the footage onto the
computer.

9. DSLR Camera
The DSLR was used to take pictures for recce pictures
and also for ancillary tasks and location and costume
notes. Using the DSLR meant that our images would be
of high quality which again adds to the overall classy look.
We also chose this camera as it was lightweight and
easily portable when we had to go to far locations to film.

10. Mac Book Pro
This laptop was used throughout the course. The Mac
Book was used to order all work and saving work,
meaning back up for files etc. With experience with Mac
Books it was easy to use the laptops alongside the good
battery life, workload seemed lessened. We were able to
do work on the laptops for long durations of time, meaning
no work was lost due to battery life.

11. Sound Cloud
Sound Cloud was used to find music for our production
e.g. sound effects like tyres screeching. It was also used
for presenting our music and sound in our production.
Sound was easy to embed from Sound Cloud and put
onto the blog. Sounds were easy to find using the search
bar and the overall website was easy to use which meant
uploads were down faster.

12. Final Cut Pro
Final Cut was used by the editor in the editing process of
the production, it was used to showcase our raw footage
and review the footage before juxtaposing them in order
to make the short film. Final Cut has things such as colour
correction in order to change the colour of footage and
adding credits, sounds and titles to the film. Also logging
and capturing the footage was done using this software
as well as rendering footage.

13. USB
The fact that we all had USBs meant that we could easily
save all our work onto a portable device that we could
take anywhere and use it at home over the holidays.
Saving the work on the USB meant we had back up for
our work so it was less likely to get lost or deleted if a
computer or our blog crashed.

14. Photoshop CS5
This software was used in the Ancillary stage of our
course, to make our poster and film review. Even though it
was my first time using the software, I found it very easy
to manoeuvre after about 3 turns which was very fast and
easy. Tutorials on sites like YouTube helped and also
others who have used Photoshop before offered advice.
Once I was comfortable with Photoshop, I could feel
everything come together in my Ancillary tasks and ended
with a professional finish at the end in my opinion.

15. Slide Share/Slide Rocket
Slide Share was used to upload PowerPoint files. This
helped with the creativity of the PowerPoints and
ultimately making them more presentable.
Slide Rocket is very similar to Slide Share however
presentations could be made straight from the site itself
and then embedded and then put onto the blog.

16. Scribd
Scribd was used to present our word documents, it was
also used as a form of uploading our word documents
onto our blog. There were problems such as Scribd being
blocked at school due to maintenance issues however it
was up and running again in no time, however it was very
easy to use.

17. Photobucket
Photobucket was used to present the recce pictures,
using this software meant that my pictures were all
presented better and clearer. Even though this was the
first time I used the site, I found it very easy to use and
embed onto the blog.

18. Microsoft Word
Word was used throughout the course for worded
documents. In using word, we would upload files onto
Scribd and then embed it onto the blog making it more
presentable. On Word, we could change many things
about the document, like, font, colour, size, images,
tables, graphs.

19. Microsoft PowerPoint
This was used to present slide shows rather than just
using word documents, which added to the presentation.
Using PowerPoint meant we uploaded via Slide Share or
Slide Rocket and then onto our blog. It also allowed us to
add images, animations and transitions to the
presentation.

20. Prezi
Prezi was very useful in creating creative presentations as
it formats work in a very ambiguous way. It allows you to
customise presentations by adding pictures, text, links,
videos and more. Prezi is quite confusing to use however
the finished product is worth the hassle.

21. iPhone 4S
We used the iPhone to record voice overs for the dialogue
in the film. This was easy to do as we know how to
function the iPhone as we all had one. It was also very
simple to upload the sound file onto the computer by
using the USB cable.

22. Sound Recorder
We used the sound recorder to record atmospheric sound
that surrounded the area in which we filmed in. This was
done to produce a more eerie mood to the film. The
recorder was very confusing at first and hard to set up.
However after using it once, it got easier each time and it
was simple to upload onto the computer by using a simple
USB cable for the recorder.