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

 When making a movie in modern day it has become a lot easier, there is now a variety of convergence. The technology of today has made a huge impact within todays society and we take this for granted, years ago when making a movie it would take much longer and be a lot harder to create, now we have many tools like apple mac's in which help to create films a lot faster with a great use of editing techniques to make the film much more interesting and realistic. Most of the technologies used have only been around from the 90's and this has already made a huge difference within the last twenty years!
When creating our film trailer i became aware that the majority of these programmes me and my group have used are programmes we use on a day to day basis such like Facebook, Apple and youtube. When using these different technologies we are not aware of how modern society would fail to be without them! As we have been able to create a film trailer form these technologies imagine what the technology will be like within the next ten years. If we were to be without these facilities and technologies we would not be able to create such interesting programmes in which help like when making a film trailer much easier. Most of the society and teenager of today take the great source of these technologies for granted we use each programme i listed above each day with our phones without knowing! When having to research into film trailers and use a different range of technology to represent the information found we found this challenging as we did not know what to use! This shows how we take these programmes suchlike Facebook for granted as we use it to just socialise with friends by uploading images and videos, we search on youtube for the most randomise video's in which have no irrelevance.

To create and edit our film me and my group used the source of Apple Mac's and by using the programmes on apple we were able to create our film trailer. When thinking about Apple it  has now became the no.1 leading brand in which has a variety of computers, laptops, i-pods and iphones in which come with a variety of other accessories. Both Apple and Microsoft have been around since the 70's but only from the 90's have become noticed and both now two leading conglomerates. These two companies are very highly respected within the media industry.
                                                                                                                                                                           

When researching to different film trailers, we used youtube to discover the different genres of trailers, by using youtube we were able to find these threw both our Iphones and the Apple Mac's. When we found our top 5 we were able to find the one main trailer we were influenced by and then we were able to re-watch of a numerous of times.



When chosen our favourite trailer which was "Roommate" we were able to stop the trailer at each point of interest and strong points in which helped us create idea's of what we should include but also to help us choose the titles for our film. Without Youtube we would not of been able to do this.

The source of the interent helped with the development of our film trailer, we used youtube to help find tutorials to find information on how to use other effects when using Final Cut Express. We also use youtube when re-searching into film trailers, we found a variety of different genres and idea's in which we then was able to create when producing our own trailer.

To show all my re-search and planning throughout re-searching and creating my film trailer me and my group used a website called Blogger. From using Blogger we were able to show our planning of each three elements film trailer, magazine cover and film poster, with this we added each step of what we achieved onto our blog. When using blogger we were able to upload pictures and video's from youtube. Blogger has been a great source in which has helped to keep me on track and help me to relate back to work that needed improving or work that i had not achieved yet, without the use of blogger my work would of been on paper in whcih would not be presented as neatly and it would not of been orgainised, also i was able to access blogger from any computer whether at school, home or out on my Iphone.

When making our film trailer we had to become familair with the technology of both Apple Mac's and Final Express, we had already used these tools but needed reminding of certain tools and techniques in which would help make our final film trailer more realisitc. Throughout reating our trailer i have learnt new skills in which have helped when editing the trailer as the trailer now contains a better source of editing technoques and skills which helps add to the moevement and footage filmed.
When uploading our film footage, we used a memory card in which we connected witht he Apple Mac and sent the filming threw ASAP! without his source uploading the footage could of been much harder and difficult. We were also able to upload this on any apple mac computer within our class room and carry on editing.

When editing the film together we used I- Movie, this was where we uploaded each film clip onto and was then able to link together ready to export following by importing into Final Cut Express. We decided to use Final Cut Express as we were more familiar with this technology and found it easier to use. When adding music into the film we used Garage Band, by using this technology we was able to crete our own piece of music in which we could choose from a variety of sounds in which we chose the piano as our main source. We found using Garage Band difficult as we stuggled to create a piece of music in which would link well with both our film and the thriller genre, this took a while after playing around with different features and sounds but eventually we were able to produce a great piece.

When editing our poster and magazine we decided to use Photoshop, by using this tool it was very easy as Amelia is a photography student in which gave us and advantage when cropping the image and changing the colouring. I have improved my technology skills since my AS work due to working with new programmes such as photoshop, this has broadened my print media skills just as my as my film media skills.

We also used Facebook and Twitter, this is as their both social networking sites in which our related target audience would use everyday either on their phones or computers. By promoting our film trailer on each of these sites we were able to gain audience feedback in which would help us to improve our film. We also used each of these when planning our film to ask if anyone was wiling to star in our film.

Overall we did have difficulties with certain aspects during the time of creating this film trailer, this was from:
Not knowing what narrative to choose
Errors when footage would not upload
When our film would not upload to Facebook for our audience feedback.
When error messages occured we found this very frustrating and it then cause computers to run slow.  I thought that both me and my group were very patient when having to re-upload to Facebook as it was very time consuming in which we did have to save the trailer numerously by changing the quality.