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

Research stage
Through the research stage of my film, the main new technology that I used was the internet. The internet allowed me to look at a wide range of different things from films to film reviews. YouTube was one of the main things that I used in the construction stage as it allowed me to look at a variety of different short films and trailers. This helped me decide on what I was going to make for my A2 project; it gave me inspiration and many ideas for what I wanted to do for my project. I also used the website IMDB a lot in the construction stage of my work as it allowed me to look at the different posters and reviews and helped me get ideas for what I wanted to do. Below is one of the many short films/trailers that I looked at.


Planning Stage
The first thing that I had to do in the planning stage was choose the genre that I wanted of the short film that I was making. New technology allowed me to look at all the different genres, I used a website that gave me all the genres and explained which of them were. The website was http://www.filmsite.org/genres.html. I also used a video camera to ask the target audience of what genre they most enjoy and why. This is another form of new media technology. Throughout the planning stage I also used YouTube as I was able to look at variety of short films that fell under the genre of rom-com. Another new media technology that I used to help me with the planning stages of my work was social networking sites (facebook) as it allowed me to approach the target audience in a way they feel comfortable as they use social networking sites a lot. I asked the target audience what they like about rom-coms and would a rom-com work as a short film. I also used a DVD player as this allowed me to look at previous students work. This allowed me to see the standard of work that was expected. I used many different new media technologies in the planning stage of my work another form of technology that I used was scanner. I used a scanner as I had done things by hand (storyboard) and they needed to be uploaded onto my blog and this is one of the ways in which you could do this.
Consturuction Stage
Through the construction stage of my film I used a wide range of different types of new media technologies. I used a video camera for the filming of the film I was creating. I also used a camera through the filming of my film as I wanted to take still shots of us filming to show us all working as a team. To make the poster for the film I used Photoshop which again is another type of new media technologies. This allowed me to create the best poster possible. Illustrator was also used; this was to create the review for the film. Once we had finished filming our film we had to edit and I used the software windows movie maker, this was a very good piece of editing software.
Evaluation Stage
During the evaluation stage of my film YouTube was one of the main things that I used this is because it was the way in which we could get the target audience to watch my film. YouTube is where we uploaded our film, pitch and everything else that was created to help us with our film.

Throughout each of stages I was blogging to show what I have done through the making of my film. Here are images of some of the new media technologies I used througout the making of my film.