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

Technology I Used

• Prezi
• YouTube
• Blogger
• Final Cut
• HD Cam-Corder
• iPhone
• Picnic (soon to be Google+)

In this task we used a range of technologies to make sure our film looked as professional as possible, we needed to use technology so that we could make the film flow as well as possible, all though we had not used a lot of these so had to learn about them.

Prezi
Prezi is an online slide show creator that is free to use. I have not previously used this sight before studying film noir and is a nicer more professional alternative to Microsoft Powerpoint. I used this a lot so that I annotate my research and my ancillary texts. I believe the prezi presentations I have made are very clear and look good and help explain my reasons for choosing certain aspects of my film and ancillary texts.

YouTube
We have used YouTube to upload our film and also some of my reviews, this makes it simpler to keep your videos in one place under your own user on YouTube.

Blogger
I have used blogger to update and keep track of my progress and have enjoyed using blogger and think it is a good tool for social media. Blogger is certainly something I will use so that later on in life I can look back upon. It is very simple to use and is similar to Word and I have not struggled to operate the site. The only problem I did have with this site was that I could only access my blog from home and not on any other device, therefore I could not go on blogger at school, this was inconvenient and had to be worked around.

Final Cut
Final Cut is the program that come with Apple Macs and is used for editing film. We had previously used them before but only to try and get a feel from them. I found it especially hard using them and when we first started editing we had problems uploading our clip to the Apple Macs but this turned out to be a problem with the computer so we had to start again on another PC. Overall I have improved a lot in my final cut ability after spending many hours up in the suite.


HD Cam-Corder
For filming our movie we used a Panasonic HDC- 1040, we needed to use a good quality camera so that the finished product looks good in the end. Our camera was very simple to use and uploading was not difficult. I done the majority of the filming and as I have never filmed before I enjoyed being able to create good shots with the camera angles. If we were to do anymore filming I would definitely buy a tripod as some of the filming is a tad shaky.

iPhone
I used my iphone to recorded me talking about ancillary texts, it was very simple to use and I could remotely upload the videos straight to YouTube which saved a lot of time and effort. The camera quality is not the best and if I was to record again I might use the HD Camera but I didn't have it at the time but the iPhones camera is good enough for the task required.






Picnic
Picnic is an online image editing site which when I used it was free because it was closing down so I got all of the premium features which made my ancillary texts more professional. I have used picnic before many years ago and it is a very good site for editing pictures.