How did you use new media technologies in the construction and

research, planning and evaluation stages?

By Sarah Kelly

Research and planning stages

•Researching the conventions of the horror genre•Researching different horror posters and magazines •Learning horror theory which aided my ideas •Researching film distributors •Researching magazine distributors

•Looking at other horror trailers•Researching tutorials for Photoshop

•Throughout the researching and planning stages, I made sure that I blogged everything into Word Press so that all of my research and planning were in one place.

•I used PowerPoint to create my presentations; Job

Roles, Target Audience research, Horror poster analysis

•Another source that I used in my research and planning

stages were slideshows on slide share; I learned horror

theory specifically from slide share.

•I also used slide share to present my target audience

research and my poster analysis

• I used prezi to present my findings on certain horror

theory's.

https://prezi.com/hmk8wncgrava/barthess-narrative-codes/

https://prezi.com/7uld6fkwipwm/conventions-of-a-horror-trailer/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

•When in my planning stage I used a Nikon camera to do

some test shooting and to get to grips with how the

camera worked.

• I did this also for my location research as well

•I used word to present my 2nd draft of my story board

•I used paint to present my 3rd draft of my story board

•I used survey monkey to find out what my targeted

audience wanted. This was an essential piece of

technology that I used, without it I would not have been

my target audience would not like my media products.

Construction Stage

Poster

•I used PhotoShop to create my Poster

•I used a Nikon camera to take pictures of my character

for the poster

•I used Facebook to get some target audience feedback

for which horror poster version was the best

•I used da font to download fonts to use on my poster to

make my poster look more professional

Magazine

I used Photoshop to create my magazine front

cover and Facebook for some audience feedback

•I used brusheezy to download blood splatter brushes for

my horror magazine front cover to make my magazine

look more professional

•I used a Nikon camera to

take pictures of my character

for my magazine front cover

•I used Facebook to get some target audience feedback

for which overall magazine front cover I should use

•I used da font to download fonts to use on my magazine

•I used survey monkey to get a response from my target

audience about which image is best fits in the horror

genre for my magazine front cover

•I used I-movie hd to edit my trailer footage to make my

trailer more professional Trailer

•I used YouTube to upload my trailer on so that it reaches

my targeted audience

•I used da font to download fonts that i thought best fitted

my transitions in my trailer

•I used the Nikon camera to record my footage for my

trailer

•I used abelton live to create my own soundtrack for my

trailer

Evaluation

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms of conventions of

real media products?

I have used PowerPoint and slide share to present how my ancillary

tasks conform and subvert conventions

I have used I movie to present how I felt my trailer subverted used

and develops conventions.

I used YouTube to download other trailers and put them into my video

and compared them to my trailer

I used YouTube to also show my answer

I have uploaded my soundtrack to soundcloud and embedded into my

blog

How effective is the combination of your main and ancillary texts?

I have converged the technologies of Youtube, Prezi, Quicktime

screen record and Quicktime audio recording to easily present this

question

What have you learned from your audience feedback?

I have embedded links into my blog to relate my question to other

blog posts

I have used Youtube to upload my focus group research

I used photo booth recorder on a Mac book to record my focus group

I used Infogram to present my questionnaire findings

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

I have used PowerPoint to present the question

I have used slide share and embedded it into my blog