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

In the production we used Photoshop to create our film magazine and used many of the photo manipulation tools included in the software to manipulate our raw photographs in order to achieve an outcome that was specific to our genre. For example how our magazine is very atmospheric in order to give off a thriller style impression to those who are to view the product. We also used Photoshop in the process of making our poster. This gave our poster a much more professional look as opposed to what it may have looked like if we had not used an application specific to editing photographs.

Premiere was the initial application software that we used at the beginning of our production. We used this for several reasons, such as ripping the content on the camera we used in order to get it into a format that was much more suitable to be used within premiere itself and other programs, we went on to use that required an avi format. Sadly we experienced problems with this software and was subsequently forced to use a different format for our production.




We began to use iMovie because of our problems with Adobe Premiere CS5. We learnt that this software was much more suitable and user friendly. The outcome we achieved was simple but crisp, giving it the genre specific thriller-esque edge. We went for a handheld P.O.V filming style, iMovie made this very easy and we were happy with the outcome. With our experience with Adobe Premiere it wasn't too hard to adjust to iMovie as they are very similar, I think this worked in our favour. As a whole we were pleased with what iMovie had to offer, making it an easy choice for our editing format. iMovie as a software application did on the other hand have its faults, for example the way in which it is very simple does mean it lacks very crucial editing elements, this was shown when coming to add sound effects compared adobe premiere the choices were very minimal making at essential to add in our own sound effects through sampling different noises to enhance particular points in the trailer.


Youtube was our source into analysing trailers and watching examples to help develop our visual ideas to what we wanted our trailer to look like for the certain types of genres. We were able to pause and analysis our trailers we chose detailed and this helped our long on-going process of our teaser trailer coursework.
Youtube was the key video site for analysing teaser trailers and viewing inspirational products that helped make our product what it is. We viewed many example videos of the same thriller genre making our inspirations very influence by the conventions of thriller style teaser trailers giving us a better understanding of how key elements of genre are to teaser trailers.




IMDB was another site that contained many teaser trailers at easy viewing.

This is my macbook pro that we used for a good majority of the editing and photo manipulation. It has all of the Adobe CS5 suite installed where we used photoshop and premiere.

 

This is an image of the camera we used. It is a digital SLR with a 1080p video setting on it giving a full HD trailer for. We used this as it gave us a very clean detailed edge to our trailer.