evaluation question 4

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

Google and the internet.


In order to carry our research and access the majority of platforms that would help us gain knowledge and understanding we needed to use the internet/google. This is proven to be vital in our success as without this we would not have been as successful. We used google as a platform to access websites such as the BBFC to find our more information about film regulation as well as for Celtx that was also vital in the construction.

Google blogger

Before even beginning to film, we had a lot of planning and organization that needed doing in order to make sure that our film was to the best possible standard and that our film would be produced and handled in the best way possible and to the best of our ability. In order to keep track of where we was and the research we carried out we made a group blog, where all of us had individual profiles where we could input all our information and gatherings that would help us build up an idea of what we wished our film to look like. We personalized our blog so that it would show our genre, we used dark colours for our audience to distinguish what the film could be about, and our production logo in the background. Furthermore we added a group photo for not just our interest but for the viewers to be able to identify us and see whose blog it was.

BBFC and IMBD

When thinking and planning what we would want our film to be like we carried out a lot of research on IMBD and BBFC in order to gain more research and better information to familiarize ourselves with the kind of genre and character stereotypes that would able us to have an idea of what people expected from our particular genre and how we would do this, furthermore by looking at different films and their reviews. This allowed me to find in-depth information not just from professionals but from viewers and our potential audience, as the BBFC allowed us to make a classification of what our film would be.
From reading we decide our film would be classified as certificate 15 as from reading all the guide lines it came immediately to our attention that this would be the most suited age rating.

 

 Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop was a huge element that helped us along the way with our film progression, to create our poster. It was very new to me, as it was the first time i had ever used Photoshop meaning it took me a while to figure out all the different tools and what they did and how to use them in order to make the and poster to my ability, after figuring out all the different elements I found it brilliant for doing what was needed. I found the cropping tool particularly helpful as it allowed me to have a great amount of detail in the foreground and allowed me to make certain elements of the poster larger, if needed. Also when making our final poster this tool was very helpful as it helped again with the detail and moving different parts of the image in order to create the ‘edgy’ effect to make the audience aware of what film we intended to make and why.

Celtx

Celtx was used by us in order to make sure our film was done exactly how we wanted and so that our scenes were how we wanted it. We used Celtx as a pre-production method as it allowed us to organized our film, it is also used by many for screen play and television as it is very simple for anyone to use as it is also very detailed meaning it is very helpful when producing many different things that need scripting. We used all the elements provided, such as the characters, stage direction, what scene we was on and also the location of each and every scene, again for organization purposes.

Premier pro

Premier pro was another new soft wear we used in A2 when making our film in terms of editing, as in AS we used final cut express that is very different as Final cut was much more simple and when we have used it we was very familiar with all the tools and how to use it, so it was shown when first using premier pro that we needed to familiarize ourselves with everything as we didn't want to jump into editing our film with our actually knowing what everything does. After spending some time familiarizing ourselves with the software we got to grips and it was actually proven to be better than Final cut as it had many effects that we was able to use such as transitions meaning that our film looked a lot more professional and this helped a lot, also it was very easy when importing footage from the Cannon Legria HFG25 onto Premiere Pro.  We used premier pro when editing our long journey that we did at the beginning of the year in order to familiarize ourselves with different shots, different camera and also help enhance our skills of premier pro.

We also used premier pro when editing our radio trailer as we wanted to make sure that we include snipets of sound from our film and join them well with voice overs and different sounds to create a very good product and viral add.

Camera, tripod and zoom recorder.

The new Cannon Legria HFG25 allowed us to get better shots as there was more advantages of this camera in comparison to the one we used in AS (Sony HD 1000) the new and more agile camera had focus assist meaning it was much easier for us to get a good shot and not having to re-focus our camera every time we turned it on. Also the size of the camera was much more practical as it allowed us to easily transport the camera as it was very light meaning that when filming difficult scenes it was easy to put together, also for hand held shots it was much better as it allowed us to carry it with ease, as the previous camera was very heavy. Another pro to the new camera was that last year we had to also carry around tapes, whereas this year we didn't and this made it much easier for us when importing the footage and when transporting the camera form location to location. Furthermore the new tripod allowed us to get more shots and angles for our film such as canted angles that the previous camera and tripod failed to provide us with in AS.

Our brief was as well as producing a film, to produce a radio trailer to go along side as a form of synergy. In order to make our radio trailer sound professional and of a good quality we used the zoom H1 that was much easier to use as it was much more simple to use in comparison to the one we used in as, zoom H4.

YouTube.

In order to be able to show people our progression of the film we had to set up a YouTube account, we did this in AS and we used the same profile as it abled not only us as a group but other people to see our progress over the last 12 months meaning that we was always comparing in order to better ourselves and make sure that we did the best that we possibly could. When exporting not just our film but our audience questionnaires we had to allow extra time as the upload time was very unpredictable and on some occasions took around one hour to complete, and we didn't want this to set us behind our schedule as we was very pushed for time in order to meet all deadlines. YouTube is a very reliable source that we have uploaded many versions of our film; by doing this we was able to make comparison and show our peers in ordered to gain feedback to carry on progressing our film to the last minute.