4: TECHNOLOGY.

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

There are other forms of new technologies I have used whilst filming, planning and editing. 

    

RESEARCH

PICTOCHART- An infographic tool with a wide variety of templates including useful charts (pie charts, bar charts taken in through Excel) which means we can present our statistics in a  more aethetically pleasing manner. 

BLOGGER- This is a free presentation tool that allows students and teacher to present and share this work and what they have achieved throughout their product. It is like an online diary, making it easy to document my progress. 

TWITTER- We have used Twitter to keep up to date with other short films and to promote our own, keeping the followers updated on release dates and posting our film poster and snippets of filming to engage the audience and further promote our film.  

NewHive- I used NewHive to present my research on short films and what they entail. 

YOUTUBE- We have used YOUTUBE to conduct research on other short films and to display our work, inviting feedback from the public. I aslo used this when conducting research on radio trailers, seeing which had the best feedback and which was the most effective.

GOOGLE DOCS- This is a useful tool for collaborating on projects as it enables us to contribute and share ideas on to one document from many different computers, keeping our 

information stored in one place. 

SLIDESHARE- This is useful when making presentations as it enables us to upload on to a template and make it more visually pleasing for the viewer. It also means we can share our work with the public.  

PLANNING 

TRELLO - This is a useful tool for keeping up to date. It is an interactive to do list which enable us to categorise our work into "TO DO", "DOING" and "DONE" helping us to keep on top of the project.

EMAZE- Like Slideshare, Emaze presents work visually with beautiful graphical tools and accepts PowerPoint uploads. I used emaze to present my research on Ridley Scotts film  "Life in a Day" and for my feedback on filming one of the scenes throughout our film.

FACETIME- We can talk as a team using this apple video tool.

iPhone- this can be useful for keeping in touch with your group, for planning & location shots, for playing your track while out and about?

CONSTRUCTION

DIGITAL CAMERA- This is vital for the construction of our film as the camera needs to be good quality and have the required feature in order for us to get the desired effect.

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP- We used photoshop to create the film poster and present our feedback in an aesthetically pleasing manner for the viewer.

YuDu- This is used to make dynamic page-turning leaflets. I used YuDu to present my research neatly on the subject topic of narrative theories.

  FACEBOOK

To organize shoots by contacting cast and crew with details of an 'event'. This enables us to promote our film, by making a page and inviting people to it. 

EVALUATION

NEW HIVE enabled me to present all my evidence about how I used technology in a visually exciting and logical way with images, text, embedded video and audio.

FACEBOOK- We used Facebook to invite feedback about our production and to promote our film to a wider audience being the general public. 

YOUTUBE- We have used YouTube for  inviting feedback on your own video work.