Evaluation Activity 4.

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

 

The Technologies/software that we used were Youtube/ Photoshop/IMovie and Blogger.

Youtube was very helpful, we used it to analyse film trailers so that we could get an insightful look on how the structure of trailers work and what components make up a good trailer. Youtube also helped me on how i could create the perfect zombie look, after detailed research into tutorials i made my own Youtube tutorial on my self done Zombie make-up, This was very effective because by doing this it gave a real theatrical horror look. Looking back at year 12, the special effects make up has been improved, from just simple blood splatters we improved to full on prosthetic zombie make-up.
Photoshop was a very important piece of software that we used for the developing of the poster and magazine cover, for the poster we were able to manipulate certain photographers to create the poster, we created the poster by cropping a photograph and visually made it horror-like and added the Title font and company ratings on a layer over the top. The magazine that we produced was very effective because we worked into detail by manipulating and photoshopping in different photos together, i.e a normal photograph of a hand into different photographs. using photoshop was very easy for me since i take Photography and i have been using photoshop for a long time so i knew how to work it straight away.

IMovie has been used over the course of our 2 year course,we used it in year 12 to put our opening 2 minutes together and because it worked so well last year we decided to use it for our trailer, We used Imovie because we found it easier than using Adobe Premier because we were not used to the tools and procedure in using that specific software.
Blogger was a main part of my presentation skills, i was able to record my research and planning so that i have something to base my trailer on. by re-designing my blogger page to a relation to my trailer i was able to make the design very Zombie Apocalypse themed.
As a group we decided to use an Apple Mac computer, we did this because two members of the group owned macs, and we felt this would be the best decision.