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

2. CONSTRUCTION
For the actual filming of my production, I used a
Panasonic SDR-H85 HDD camera, which I
borrowed from college, this is of a reduced quality
however I knew how to achieve a respectable
quality from my AS piece. Once I’d filmed my short
film, I uploaded my recordings onto the Macs at
college, we had to convert these into a DV format to
enable me to important these into iMovie. I then
re-ordered these clips, and cut the necessary clips to
enable continuity, I didn’t make much use of the
editing software just simple cuts and a cross fade as
we wanted it to remain realistic.
When it came to my print products, I used a Sony
still digital camera to take our image for the film
poster, we then used Microsoft Publisher to edit
this image by changing the contrast to making it
spooky, we also added our titles, tag line, logo’s etc.
For the film review, we used Microsoft

3. RESEARCH
Research is now much easier than it used to be this is due
to the impact of the internet, this allows information to
be available conveniently. My first task was to research
into a variety of short films to find conventions of my
genre, but also to gain inspiration. I started
with YouTube, where I watched short films such as the
short film ‘bump’. Using Google helped me to discover the
film ‘Blair Witch Project’ this was the big inspiration for our
short film. I then decided to do analyses of the clips and
films I believed was similar to my initial idea, and I typed
these up on to Blogger. I also chose to research into the
‘Blair Witch Projects’ directors through Wikipedia, this
helped me to understand how they were typically
recognised and what I could do in my work. Also for our
target audience research we used the Panasonic SDR-
H85 HDD camera to interview people, we uploaded this
onto YouTube to enable us to put it on Blogger.
I then chose to research into horror film posters, I chose
to use Google images to discover these, I found 3 posters
I liked and chose to analyse these I did this on Microsoft
PowerPoint and then use Slide Share to upload this

4. PLANNING
I have to admit that throughout
the planning stage I didn't
actually use many new media
technologies, and instead used
the old fashioned paper and pen
method instead. For example,
brainstorming ideas, writing the
script, and creating a storyboard
to help me with filming. I also
did a sketch design for a possible
film poster idea. The only new
media I used was the Sony Still
Digital Camera to take photo’s
of these techniques to put onto
Blogger. I think we didn’t use as
much new media as in planning

5. EVALUATION
To complete question one of my
evaluation, I recorded a directors
commentary using AVS4YOU by creating
an audio file over my short film then
posting this onto Youtube. For question
two and this one 4, I created a Microsoft
PowerPoint and again uploaded it
onto Slide Share and then onto
my blog. In order to receive feedback for
question three, I uploaded my completed
short film onto YouTube and used social
networking such as Facebook to promote
it, I then created a Wordle out of my
feedback. Although I used a lot of new
media in this stage, it wasn’t as necessary