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Monday, 22 April 2013

Question 4


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

Research and planning

For our research we created a blog on Blogger to store all of our information and posts on it. By doing this we were able to save all of our work in one place so it was easy to access.

We looked for similar films to our on websites such as IMDB and Wikipedia. This gave us several ideas of what genre we were going to go for. A film we looked at in particular was Jacobs Ladder, which is a psychological horror film about a solider. We liked the look of the “head shake” effect which the filmed used and so by using YouTube we watched and learned how to do the effect.

One shot we could not use was the Jaws zoom in dolly out shot. We could not use this shot because we couldn’t get the shot steady enough to do.

Construction

In the construction stage we used new Digital cameras to record our film in HD. This allowed our footage to be in better quality for when it went on to the computer. These cameras enabled us to record our footage and import it on to the editing equipment. We imported it on the computer by using a fire wire. We then edited our project. The editing equipment we used allowed us to use several special effects such as fades and to be able to speed up our scene so we can use the Jacobs Ladder head shake effect.

We also used the same editing equipment to edit our radio trailer after we recorded it on a digital sound recorder. This enabled us to create our radio trailer. We then used sounds from our film and imported them onto our radio trailer by using a memory stick. We then edited it.      

        


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