The document discusses the extensive use of new media technologies throughout the project's research, planning, production, and evaluation stages. A wide range of technologies were used, including laptops, digital cameras, video cameras, editing software like iMovie and Photoshop, blogging platforms, presentation software, audio editing tools, and font libraries. These technologies enabled effective research, planning, production of project deliverables such as a trailer and ancillary tasks, and presentation of the overall work.

1. How did you use new media
technologies in the
construction and
research, planning and
evaluation stages?
Question 4

2. New media technology
was the essential element
to this project, from
research and planning
right through to this final
evaluation. New media
technology has meant
that I could display my
research and planning in
an effective and different
way, it enabled us to
actually create our

3. New media technology
development has been
fundamental for the
hardware's we have used
throughout our project.
My research and
planning was completed
on a laptop so that I
could use the
presentation software's
to display my work; I
used Microsoft Word to

4. We used a digital camera
in both the planning and
production of our work.
It was used in our
planning to make a post-
it note animatic
storyboard for our
trailer rather than
creating a static
storyboard, therefore
meaning that we could
re-arrange our

5. This same hardware was
used to capture our
original images for our
two ancillary tasks. We
used my Samsung DV90
which uses a sixteen
megapixel
camera, meaning that
our images were in focus
and were of a high
standard of quality. The
development of new
media technology in

6. We used the hardware of
a Sanyo Xacti camcorder
so that we could film our
trailer using a high
quality video camera. If
we did not have new
media technology, then
we wouldn't have been
able to record our
trailer at all. We then
edited our trailer in
post-production on an

7. Our main software used in the
production of our trailer was
iMovie. This use of iMovie
allowed us to edit our
trailer and manipulate all of
our clips. For most of our
clips, we tweaked the
brightness and
contrast, making the shots
appear a lot darker to
connote a feeling of darkness
and eeriness. Also, it allowed
us to create transitions, like
our jump cut, as the large
preview the software gives us

8. iMovie also allowed us to
create professional looking
title cards. We were able to
open a preset project
theme that the software has
installed, which we were
then able to apply to our
own project. We chose the
project that had the
mountains production
company logo as we felt
that it looked like the
Paramount Pictures
production company as it
connotes professionalism

9. Adobe Photoshop was the
most used software for our
ancillary tasks. We were
able to manipulate our
images almost entirely
through the use of this new
media technology. We toyed
with the
brightness, contrast, exposu
re and contrast on both the
poster image and the
magazine front cover image.
On our poster image, this
software enabled us to

10. The main new media
technology we used in the
project was Blogger. This
has been used from the
start of our Advanced
Portfolio right to the
end of it. I have used this
to present all of our
work into a simple
webpage, which means
that it is easy to navigate
through my work. I have

11. Microsoft Publisher was
used for both of our
ancillary tasks. Publisher
was vital for our layout of
our poster and our
magazine front cover as it
means that we could easily
arrange the bodies of text
in different orders
efficiently. Also, we were
able to use the text boxes on Publisher
to create our other text that we did
not create on the software DaFont and
we were able to select a typography
from the software's preset fonts.

12. We have used new media
technology in our
research, planning and
evaluation by using
presentation
software's, like
Prezi, GoogleDrive, OneDri
ve and Microsoft
PowerPoint. This meant
that I had successful ways
to present my work
which all contained

13. Garageband is a new media
technology software that we
used to create our music and
soundscape in planning and
research. This again can only
be activated by Apple
products, which is another
reason as to why we used
that specific hardware. I used
Levi Strauss' Bricolage
theory and applied this to
the planning of the music;
deleting the motifs of the
piece that I felt were
irrelevant to our genre and
our trailer and used addition
to increase the length of the
music and to create an impact
of tension with the surreal

14. Soundcloud is a
relatively new
software, being
founded only in 2007.
Therefore, this is a
prime example of new
media
technology, which we
used in our research
and planning and I have
used in my evaluation.
We uploaded our

15. We used SurveyMonkey
to create a survey to
send to our target
audience regarding our
proposal for our initial
audience feedback. This
allowed us to create
questions with answers
consisting of one tick
box, multiple choice and
a text box in which they
could their own write

16. I used Windows
MovieMaker and Cyberlink
PowerDirector 12 to edit
my video in my evaluation.
Using MovieMaker allowed
me to crop my video clips
to attempt to keep the
continuity in my video
presentation, as I recorded
the different conventions
descriptions as different
clips. I then exported this

17. I uploaded the videos
that I created, like
the videos made on
iMovie of our title
cards and my
evaluation video, to
YouTube so that I
could embed the
videos onto Blogger.
If it wasn't for this
new media
technology, I would
not be able to upload

18. I used the software
Audacity to crop my
sound files for
question 1 for my
evaluation before
uploading it to
Soundcloud. As I
recorded these in
separate clips, I
needed to crop them

19. We used DaFont.com to
create the typography for
both our poster and our
magazine. This enabled us to
create professional
looking text and it made
our work more appealing
to the audience. Also, it
helped our work to share
conventions between our
projects and also to real
media texts. If it wasn't for