Molly used new media technologies throughout her media production work. For her short film, she used a Panasonic Flip camera to record footage instead of older video cameras requiring film reels. She communicated with her group using Web 2.0 like social media to plan and research other films. When filming, she used a Panasonic HD camera and Final Cut Pro software to edit, though the camera's battery life was short. For evaluations, she used Prezi, SlideShare, and YouTube to showcase her work in engaging, multimedia formats. Overall, Molly feels technology greatly enhanced the outcome and experience of her media projects.

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

2. Introduction
Throughout my media production work I used new media in the construction
and research, panning and evaluation stages when creating my short film,
film poster and film review. New media technologies have had a huge impact
on the outcome of my media products. For instance, we used Panasonic Flip
cameras with SD cards to store our footage when making the film. If
technology wasn’t advancing, we would have had to use old version video
cameras that need film reels and we would have had to physically cut the
footage which was captured on film; therefore it would have taken us a lot
longer to edit our final film and the quality wouldn’t have been as good.

3. Web.2.0 and 3.0
“Web 2.0 is the term given to describe a second generation of the
World Wide Web that is focused on the ability for people to
collaborate and share information online”. Web 2.0 refers to the
connection between a computer and people; for instance, it can
refer to websites like Wikipedia and social media such as YouTube,
Twitter and Facebook and it involved one-to-one contacting
changing to many-to-many in 2.0. in other words Web 1.0 was when
people only read websites, not interacted with them until Web 2.0
made that happen.
Web 3.0 isn’t here yet but people believe it will be soon and it will be
a more advanced version of Web 3.0. It is described that Web 3.0 will
be able to generate raw data on there own. People believe Web 3.0
will be able to make devices exchange data between each others and
even produce new information such as a music player anticipating
what music the user may enjoy based on their previous song
selections. In addition to this, the internet will be able to do tasks
faster and more efficiently as well.
When completing our production work, we used Web 2.0, especially
for tasks such as communicating with my group in order to meet up
and film our short film, to communicate about tasks such as the
planning and research of our film and to research other films that we
could take inspiration from.

4. Digital Technology
Digital technology refers to the use of digital resources to complete tasks. It refers to
finding, creating, communicating and use the information in a digital context. This
includes the use of different tools such as Web 2.0, digital media tools, programming tools
and software applications. Digital technology is constantly improving and nowadays we do
so much more with devices such as phones than what we could, say 10 years ago. For
example, we can call people, text people, use the internet, play games, use voice
recognition to communicate with your phone (most people call him SIRI), you can check
the weather from your phone and take pics or videos and even edit them plus adding
effects.
When my group and I were filming our short film, we used small Panasonic cameras with
large memory and HD (High Definition) quality. If we were filming our film around 50
years ago my group and I wouldn’t have had digital cameras, the camera would be a
large, heavily device that would sit on our shoulder, would have bad film quality
compared to today and it would take us forever to edit our film, plus we wouldn’t have
been able to add fancy effects to it in order to make some of the scenes more vibrant in
colour or use transitions to make the change of scenes more effective.

5. Using Technology in the Research and Planning Stages
In the research and planning stages of my production work, I used many
different types of digital technology to complete the research and planning
stages.
 I used the internet to access free information like looking for information
that would help understand and plan the short film more.
- I also used the internet to search for other short films and films
relating to my short film in order to gain knowledge on what short films are,
the conventions of them and ideas for my own short film.
- I used a blog (WordPress) to display the research and planning I
completed and had done. I used text, images and videos to display my short
film research and planning.
- In addition to this, I used the internet to gain access to social
networking sites so that I could communicate with my group members to
discuss the story of our short film, any research that could help increase the
film idea and any ideas that would help make our short film more interesting
such as ideas from other films.
- My group also used Amazon (an online shopping website) to search
for and buy props for our film such as the Red Riding Hood costume.
 I also used a scanner to scan in documents such as research notes and
sheets on to my blog.

6. Using Technology in the Production Stage
For the making of the short film stage of the production work, we used many different technologies to
make the most out of our short film. Examples are listed below:
 We used a Panasonic HD camera to record footage for our film. The camera we used was really
worthy compared to the past when cameras didn’t have a large storage space, poor quality, bad
sound when playing footage back and lighting was a big issue. The cameras we used had a decent
size storage space (we never had to delete anything in order to record more footage) and the film
footage quality was really clear and looked quite professional. However, there were a few
problems with the cameras that caused a few problems in the production stage such as the
battery life – it battery life didn’t particularly last that long and it caused a problem because we
could have been in the middle of filming in the forest and the battery would just die. Another
problem we had with the cameras was the lighting. When the weather got quite dark the footage
became quite fuzzy and didn’t really look good or professional.
 We also used Final Cut Pro to edit our film. This piece of software was fantastic because there
were so many things you can do on there such as adding effects, changing the lighting of a scene,
using certain transitions in order to make the scene flow better and even zoom in shots to make
them look like close ups instead of long shots or mid shots. The main problem I had with the
software was that last year I struggled with the software because there are so many options on
what to do, but even though this year I felt more confident with the software as I was more used
to it, it still took me a long time to understand more options on there. For instance, last year I
managed to learn the basics of Final Cut Pro such as the transitions and effect and how to cut a
piece of footage, but this year I found out more such as how to make a scene look like it is set at
night time and that you can alter the effects you add like making a scene look even more vibrant
than with the effect on it.

7. Using Technologies in the Evaluation Stage
For my evaluations, I used many different ways to display my findings.
For example, I used Prezi which enables you to add movement,
images, videos and music to the presentations, I used SlideShare after
creating a presentation on Microsoft PowerPoint which enabled me to
add pictures and text and I also used YouTube to display a video I made
for an evaluation.
Conclusion:
In conclusion, I feel that technology has helped me a lot in my
production work because without technology, my production work
would have been just text which would have been boring and I would
have had many problems creating a short film, film poster and film
review without it.