Evaluation Question Four

 How Did You Use New Media Technologies In The Research, Planning, Construction And Evaluation Stages?

When creating our trailer we relied heavily on things such as premiere pro to edit our trailer. Premiere Pro was one of the main technologies we used when creating our trailer, we used it for all of our editing. 

Youtube and Blogger were our main sources of publishing our work. Both of these websites allowed us to post our work online, we used blogger to post all of our planning and written work. We uploaded our completed trailer to Youtube.

Throughout the process of making our trailer we also used a lot of other web based programmes, such as DaFont, which we used to find the fonts we wanted to include in our trailer and also individually for our magazine covers and posters. 

I used photoshop a lot when it came to making my magazine cover and film poster, I found that that was the best way to make them.

Programmes like Prezi and Flipsnack also helped me post my work onto my blog.

When filming our trailer mostly used a camcorder to record all of our footage. We also occasionally used a tripod and dolly, especially when filming certain supermarket scenes, but a lot of the time we used a lot of hand held shots to make it seem more natural and to add to the suspense of the trailer.

I got on with a lot of the technology we used throughout the making and editing of our trailer, however, I did find Premiere Pro quite difficult to use because I had never used it before and didn't really know what I was doing to start with. But, eventually I learnt how to use it and could do a few basic things on it. 

I found using photoshop when making my magazine cover and film poster a lot easier as I had used it before last year when we made magazines. I found it a lot easier to use as this time I knew a bit more about what I was doing and how to use it. 

I found programmes like Blogger, Prezi and Flipsnack easy to use as they were quite straight forward and again, programmes I had used before last year whilst making our magazines and also in other subjects.

I think through using the different technologies involved with making a film trailer, I have improved and developed my creativity, skills and knowledge. I got to use all different programmes I had never used before, and I gained more experience and knowledge when working with web based technologies I had used before.However, having previous experience with some of the things we were using definitely helped, especially things like Photoshop, even though I had never used Premiere Pro I could spot the similarities with how the two programmes worked, which did make parts of the editing process easier.