task 4-How did the you use new media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages

What are 'new media technologies'?
In the stages of our short film we used a variety of new media technologies;

Pre production

• I used the internet a lot before deciding on target audience for our short film. I was researching reviews, film posters similar to our genre (psychological thriller). It really helped comparing other films to ours.
• I mainly focused on the film Shutter Island to look at ideas we could incorporate into ours. I watched a few interviews about audience research in order to see how our group should figure what target audience would be best for our film.
• Social networks were a big thing for audience research. I displayed on twitter an image and asked a few people to comment on if they found it worked well etc. If it wasn't for social networks my research would have been less effective.

Production

• The production of the short film was sometimes quite difficult as we were in situations where the atmosphere interfered with the sound. So we used a zoom box, and the audio recorder.  These helped our film to feel less amateur.  
• The use of the DSLR camera was the quality was much better than an average camera. There was two different settings manual and auto. It was good to be able to decided what we felt looked better for each scene.

Post production

• Throughout the whole of the filming we used a DSLR camera to film our footage.
• In order to post updates on our film progress we formatted it on blogger.com. It is an easy website to navigate and upload work.
• The editing process I found difficult, especially grasping Photoshop, garage band and final cut pro. Photoshop is a complex software and the tool I struggled with was the magic wand tool.
• Through the process we have been constantly working on mac computers. With having one myself I found it pretty simple to use, however it would freeze and cause corruption sometimes. Nevertheless the technologies used have been really effective and high quality stuff.

Throughout the process transferring data was very important, it involved;

1. Copying sound files
2. Uploading files onto youtube 
3. Grabbing still shots from the film to use on our posters
4.  Copying over transitions onto our film 
5. Being able to cut specific parts of speech and merge sound footage in order to create a radio trailer.

The new media technologies make the jobs much easier and quicker to do, and I cannot imagine our final film looking the way it does without the new technologies that are available.

Editing

This is a clip showing us in the editing process, we are merging two clips together.