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

We have use a range of different media technologies in the creation of our film trailer. We used a mixture of hardware and software that ultimately benefited the outcome of our trailer. 

We used a HD camera and tripod to film most of the shots in the trailer. We edited all of our footage together on the Apple Mac which is another new media technology that is allowing more and more people to grasp and understand the world of filming and editing. We used standard PC's to do most of our research on, search engines such as 'Google' allow you to have any piece of information at the end of your fingertips within seconds. All of these pieces of equipment all made it easier for Ross and I to produce our film trailer.

Using a HD camera is the only way to film now. The picture quality is good for a relatively small device which means transportation is easy. Because transportation is easy it makes it easier to experiment with shots. Our film would not have the same effect if it were shot in a lower definition. The trailer works around the the angle and colours used in each shot and this is where the HD camera really helps us out.

Like I just mentioned, colours were an integral part of the trailer. By using the editing software 'iMovie' we manipulated the colours in our trailer to add a higher amount of saturation. This effect allowed us to expose the genre and add something a little unique to our project. 'iMovie' made it very quick and simple to edit together each shot that we wanted. This is a massive step up from 'crash editing' which is basically cutting up two films. The introduction of editing software such as 'iMovie' means it's quicker and easier to edit your film

Website are becoming more and more popular and the Internet is growing at a fast pace. The amount of people on the Internet now is vast. Team this with social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook and you have a great platform in which to share media products. The Internet is a great place to promote and advertise media products. By using Twitter I promoted your film trailer in order for it to reach a wide audience.

The last thing on the list is video sharing websites like 'YouTube'. YouTube has millions and millions of users which can watch and comment on your film. By using YouTube we were able to broadcast our film trailer. The comments feature allows us to collate user feedback.