HOW DID YOU USE NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND RESEARCH, PLANNING AND EVALUATION STAGES?
Final Cut Pro
This was one of the most vital technologies that we used this is due to the fact that this is the software that allowed us to make our trailer. We were able to use this to further develop our trailer and use this software to our advantage. we were able to manipulate features of this such as the filters to manipulate the footage we have filmed we could use this to our advantage to make the footage darker and more "horror themed" Having this software at our disposal has been a great help allowing us to improve our trailer further. This software also allowed us to edit our footage and allowed us to manipulate our footage such as making our clips shorter so that we could build up tension using the Kuleshov and collision cutting method.
Photoshop
Photoshop allowed us to take full advantage of the images and text we had prepared for use on our poster and also magazine cover. This allowed us to take full advantage of the images we had as it allowed us to manipulate the back ground allowing us to darken the back ground allowing the image to stand out more making the features of the face more visible adding an up-close and personal to the poster attempting to creep the audience out this is as it allows you to pick up on every detail such as missing teeth and lumps on the skin, attempting to gross the audience out just by the appearance of a poster. Conforming to the traditional sort of appearance of a poster, attracting people who are interested in horror films as it also has the typical feature of a horror poster such as red on the black back ground allowing the text to stand out due to the contrast of colours.
Converting FILE FORMATS
Jigsaw Planet
This website was helpful to us. This was due to the fact it allowed us to make an interactive puzzle for our website which was a puzzle which we had used for our poster so visitors to out website could the try and make our poster through a puzzle which is a completely different way for our viewers to view our poster and allows them to feel involved. This means that people who are interested in the poster can interact with it which will allow them to feel involved and almost as if they are a part of it.
YOUTUBE
Youtube was a very helpful modern technology to us. This is due to the fact that it allowed us to distribute our trailer for our finished horror film. This modern technology is useful as it can allow for our target audience to be able to view our product and give us feedback on this giving us ideas which could be able to help us improve our products in the future, this also allows us to see how well our product appeals to our target audience by how many people have watched the video and the reviews that it may get throughout the comments and by seeing how many likes and dislikes our trailer may get. this website was the key to the distribution of our trailer. If we did not have access to this it maybe harder for our product to reach our target audience but with the access of this site it allowed us distribute our product with ease. Overall this site is very helpful for the distribution of our product. This also provided us with information of what horrors are popular this also meant we were able to see which genres are the most popular allowing us to make our product more appealing to our target audience.
IMDB
ImDb was useful as this site provided us with a data base on what films are popular and which one's may not be as popular. This was useful due to the fact that we can look to find what makes the films which are popular, popular and why the not so popular films are not as popular. This allowed us to know what we should and shouldn't do to the trailer allowing us to make the most successful product that we could doing everything right and avoiding issues which could potentially make the product less successful, this allows us to make the product to it's optimum potential.
You can view our Prezi using the button above labeled Prezi.
We decided to use Prezi to provide you with information but in a more informal and interactive way.
We decided to use Prezi to provide you with information but in a more informal and interactive way.