EVALUATION TASK 4

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

During the whole process of the production of our projects we used different types of new
media technologies, these include cameras and laptops to construct our final product.
However, when we were editing everything together we used adobe premier pro, adobe
Photoshop and adobe after effects.

When filming our trailer we used a camera to film. We decided to use the professional
camera as the video quality came out well and at a very high quality, whereas if we'd
decided to use a smartphone to film we would've struggled with the video quality as well
as the sound quality.

As a group we also decided to use the same camera to take photographs of our main
actors, Toby Payne and Orla Jordan, this was for our film poster. We wanted the two
main characters on the front, we tried out lots of different poses and lighting effects using
the flash, however we settled on our final photo, as we believe it would have the most effect
on  the audience and we thought it looked the best do to the proxemics and lighting.

To take the photo for the magazine cover, we used a smartphone as we didn't have the
camera on us at the time the photo was taken, therefore we had to use a lower quality
camera however overall we didn't have an issue for the final product.

When we decided to start editing the film trailer footage, we decided to use the computer
and use adobe premiere pro. This is a professional computer program which gave us a
good quality finish on our film trailer which we were very happy with.

We had mini courses on these programs which were very useful as we had a professional
come in and help us with our editing and construction of our film trailer, poster and
magazine cover. We learnt new skills and techniques to create exciting and original
media products.