1. how did you use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
how did you use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
how did you use new media technologies in the
construction and research, planning and
evaluation stages?
by Harry Donnelly

2. Introduction
Hassan and I used a number of different types of new
technologies during all stages of the course. The
applications, software or hardware were all specific for
the particular task. whether that was the research,
filming, distributing,creating a poster or writing and
uploading a review.
In this presentation, I will discuss these technologies in
detail and talk about how they helped us achieve the final
products.

3. web 2.0 & 3.0
•Web 2.0 is the second generation of the internet. This
means that users can share information online. This
generation allow makes communication between web
users possible.
•Web 3.0 is the third generation of the internet. This
allows the internet to be more efficient and remember
the user when searching through the web using
previous searches and needs.

4. The internet
The internet played a huge role in all aspects of this course. The
research and planning, distribution, film poster, film review and
evaluation.
The internet was extremely vital especially in the research and
planning stages as I needed to research short films, codes and
conventions, film posters and film reviews etc. Google, Wikipedia,
YouTube and IMDB were amongst the main websites I used to find
out particular information about the media texts we were studying.
I used the internet the day before a filming session to check up on
the weather forecast. Unfortunately, you can never depend to
heavily on these as we proved on one particular day when we got
to the skatepark and it rained.

5. Youtube & vimeo
YouTube and Vimeo are probably the most well known video sharing
websites on the internet. These websites had a huge effect on the
research and planning side to the course as well as the final short film
and evaluation.
We used these sites to research into short films by searching similar
short film ideas to ours and gaining inspiration by the content, editing
or cinematography.
These websites were also key when conducting our textual analysis on
short films as we needed somewhere to watch and replay them, and
maybe grab screenshots.

6. iphone
My iPhone played a big role in the
research and planning stages for a number
of different reasons.
The first, main reason was that it acted
like a small point and shoot camera. this
meant I could document everything I was
doing by taking a picture and uploading it
to my blog. I captured researching, filming,
editing and drafts. This helped give an
insight of what I was doing most days. It
also made m blog a lot more dynamic as
they were a ton of pictures on it, without
the paragraph upon paragraph of
worthless waffling.
I also downloaded the wordpress app
which allowed me to post on my blog on
the go which made my work flow a lot
more efficient.

7. nikon d7000The Nikon D7000 was the camera Hassan and I used
to film our short film. We also used this to take the
pictures used in both our film posters and our
review.
This is my own personal DSLR camera which I use for
photography in my spare time. I brought it in to
school to use as I felt the HD filming capability would
make a much more appealing short film. Another
thing we had to consider were the frame rates per
second (f/ps). As we were filming fast action
skateboarding, we needed a camera that would pick
up all of the movement so that the footage was
smooth and crisp.
The two lenses we used were the Nikkor 50mm &
18-105mm (pictured on the right). They were both
used for different shots, one is for wide angled shots
whereas the other lens was predominately used for
close ups and extreme close-ups.

8. wordpress
This was arguably the most important of them all. This was the
website in which my blog can be found on. Wordpress is a
website which allows you to create a blog and follow other
peoples blog. All of my Advanced Level work is present on my
blog and displays everything I have don't, from the research and
planning, to the filming, to the editing and to the creation of the
film poster and film review. It displays the steps in which I took
to get where I am now.

9. Powerpoint & Slideshare
•Powerpoint was vital in creating a dynamic blog. When we
started our blogs, we were told not to just type everything out
into a word document but to show our ICT skills by uploading
pictures, videos and presentations etc.
•Slideshare is a website which allows you to upload powerpoint
presentations onto the internet which will then let you embed
them on the website of your choice. This was extremely helpful
as I was able to embed my presentations onto my wordpress
blog.

10. Photoshop & In-Design
•I used photoshop when creating a film poster for my short film.
The reason I used this application was because of the variety of
different tools available. The limitless options in which you can
edit photographs, layout and text meant that my final product
looked presentable and professional.
•InDesign is another adobe application which I used to create my
film review. I firstly typed it up into word processor and copied it
into InDesign. This software allowed me to create columns and
insert pictures similar to the layout of a typical Little White Lies
review.

11. Final cut pro x
During the editing stages of our short film and evaluation we
were able to use Final Cut Pro X on the iMacs. This allowed us
to edit out products like the professionals would. Final Cut was
vital as we stitched every clip together using it and added special
effects to create particular atmospheres in our short film.
We also used Final Cut in the evaluation section of our
Advanced Level for question one and three by creating a video
and a directors cut.

12. garagebandI used garageband for question 1 in the
evaluation.Garageband was helpful as it
allowed me to record my mine and
Hassan’s voice and stitch them together
to create a directors cut type podcast
which we layered onto our short film. I
done this by exporting the file onto a usb
stick and importing it onto our final cut
project.
The one problem I had was that my voice
was louder than Hassans when we were
recording so I overcame this by increasing
the volume of his voice in post production
using this software.