Evaluation Question Four

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

To begin with, we used blogger to create a blog for our group. Putting our work on a blog makes it easy to have both individual and collaborative work all In one place. Google Blogger's tagging system allows the people in the group to all work on one post together on one person's account, and yet still share credit for the collaborative post. The blog also allows us to embed photographs and videos, making our blog multi-media and making it easy for people to find links to other sites without having to leave the blog. This allowed us to put all our research and ideas together in one place that we can go back to and revisit whenever needed.

We also used google's search engine for our research as it is an easy search engine to use and has a very large amount of information for us to look through. Having such a large search engine to look through meant that as a group we could gather lots of information in our research and were well prepared when it came to putting our film together and creating a story. It allowed us to build up a large log or information and research that we can use to out into our film and make it the best we possible can. When we had an idea for our film we used Celtx to create a professional looking and easy to follow script.

Once the film was scripted to began filming. We used digital cameras to film as they are high quality and create professional looking shots for our film. They are simple to use and it is easy to look back on what you have shot. We also used them to take still photographs for our poster as the high quality made our pictures look professional and are a good at taking clear, crisp photographs. When filming with the cameras we found their light weight and small size incredibly useful for transporting it to and from our location and setting the equipment up in preparation to film. We also used a zoom recorder to record the knocking noise for our film as it meant that we could alter the volume to fit the tension levels and where about in the house the main character is at the time of the knocking.

To edit our film we used Premier. It is very user friendly and easy to understand, making it ideal for a student film like ours. Using the razor tool, it was very easy to cut shots down and put them together in an order that made sense. Being able to link and unlink sound was very helpful as it meant that we could cover and replace sound within our film to make it as professional as possible. We also used the available tools on premier to colour correct scenes that had a yellow hue to them in order to keep continuity throughout the film and to darken scenes with too much light, as our film is set at night.