Evaluation Question 4: “How did you use new media technologies in the construction,
research, planning and evaluation stages?”
Sophie Rippin.
In research...
• The internet was used a lot• Wikipedia• Google.
• We also used YouTube to look at existing comedy trailers
• PowerPoint was also used a few times for analysing existing trailers.
• We also used Google Images to find posters of the films we analysed. And we also found magazine covers for these films.
In Planning...
• We used YouTube to look at amateur teaser trailers of a similar kind to ours, this let us see what sort of thing we would realistically be able to produce.
• We also used a stills camera to take location shots.
• We also used a scanner to scan in our storyboard of the scenes for our trailer.
• I then used the internet again to research into existing rom-com film titles, this gave me inspiration into a name for our film.
In Construction...
• We used a video camera to film our trailer. This meant we could film in different locations.
• To edit our trailer, we uploaded it to iMovie on the Apple Mac, using an external hard-drive.
• I came up with an initial idea for a script using Microsoft Word. I used Word because it is simple and easy to use.
• I used inDesign to create a poster for our film, and Sam began production of the magazine cover also in inDesign.
• For deciding which background image for the poster, I used a printer to send copies of examples around the classroom.
• We uploaded our finished trailer onto YouTube. However the audio was disable so then we used the internet to find more music that we might be able to use.
• I used a website to extract the sound from the YouTube file I found that we were then able to add to our trailer using iMovie.
In Evaluation...
• I was able to use comments on YouTube to help me with answering some of the questions posed in the Evaluation.
• I also used PowerPoint and Microsoft Word to answer some of the questions, as well as images taken from the internet and my blog.
• Throughout the whole project, I used a blog to keep a record of my work.
