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

Planning stagesIn the planning of my media, I mainly used “Prezi” which allows me to create slide shows that are more interesting to look at with animations, effects and different backgrounds. I used Prezi for my research such as, different horror settings, different types of horror and what makes a horror movie. This is just some of my work that I created on Prezi:

Constructing

When using Prezi you create a animation path for the particular story you are creating, and then the second picture is where you think about all the information you want to include and then you can also add pictures and YouTube clips. Prezi is an interactive story line and is fairly easy to use. It makes it more interesting to read rather than reading pages and pages of information, and keeps the audience interested.

Wordpress

Wordpress is what I used to create my blog and update each individual post that I enter on my blog. It also allows me to edit any blog and also keep and eye on what date I added the blogs so I can keep everything in order. This is a great help to me as it allows me to keep all my work on the same blog and change it any time if I need to.

Research and planning

In the research and planning I used YouTube and Timetoast. I used YouTube for research as I looked at homemade horror teaser trailers that other people had created and I looked at what I thought was good and what I thought they could improve and how I could avoid making the same mistakes. I used Timetoast to create an interactive time line and I researched horror movie past and present and what films were released in different years and the history of them such as the year it was released and who directed the film and the main well known characters.

Final construction and evaluation

In the final stages of the construction of my horror teaser trailer and ancillary tasks I mainly used Photoshop and Premier Pro. Photoshop allows you to take a photo and make changes to it, for example make a blemish on someone’s face disappear or make something more visible and also get rid of certain backgrounds. Where as Premier Pro I used this to create my teaser trailer and to edit my footage once it was completed. Both of these technologies are fairly complicated to use when you first start using them but when you get used to them it becomes a lot easier and very useful to your project.

My work on Photoshop

This is the work I created on Photoshop, these are my ancillary tasks. The first is my poster and the second is my magazine. I created both of these from scratch on Photoshop and these are my own pictures, I cut around these pictures to get a steady line just around the part of the photo I wanted and then placed them correctly. I also got rid of blemishes and marks on the models face and coloured in the background to match the same colour.