1. Q4) How did you use new media
technologies in the construction and
research, planning and evaluation stages?

2. Construction
• For the picture edit of my film, I used Final Cut Pro. We used it last
year to edit our AS film so we felt more comfortable editing on it.
As we had used it before, we didn’t come up against too many
obstacles when it came to technical issues. However, because our
film had such a strict structure, we struggled to be that creative
when it came to the order of our scenes.
• Furthermore, the organisation of our footage became extremely
complicated as we had hours of footage for only a five minute film.
Instead of the footage to film ratio being 25:1, it was probably
35/50:1.This means that for every 35/50 minutes of footage we had,
one of those minutes would make it into our film.This is one of the
reasons that Editing on Final Cut Pro took longer then anticipated.

3. Final Cut Pro

4. Construction
• For the Sound Edit, we used Soundtrack Pro, this is an Apple
Software that connects very well with Final Cut Pro which is
extremely useful when it came to placing our film into
Soundtrack Pro.This is where we were able to place sound
effects into the film to increase the impact of the film.
• For example, in the scene when Roger hits the Zombie on
the head with theTri-pod, we added in the FX sound of a
smash which increases the sound of the hit and makes it
more realistic.

5. Soundtrack Pro

6. Construction
• Lastly, for some additional effects, we used
Adobe After Effects.The main effect that we needed to place
over the footage was snow.This is because on the day that
we filmed, it was snowing.This means that some of our
footage has heavy snow falling down and then some of the
other footage has absolutely none.We needed to purchase
and then download a special Plug-in to create this snow
effect and then place it over certain clips from our film.
• This was very important for us to create continuity.We also
used After Effects to make the sky look more red.This is to
make the sky look blood coloured.This is because a Horror
film is usually based around the colour Red as it connotes
Blood.

7. Adobe After Effects

8. Research
• For research, we mainly used the Internet. However,
we did also use Books from the BFI archive and
Magazine Articles.
• The main Websites we used were IMDB,
Empire Online, WikiPedia, Youtube, Blogger and
Pearltrees.These really allowed us to gather a lot of
important and useful research and informational in
which we could use to better our own film.

9. IMDB

10. Empire Online

11. WikiPedia

12. Youtube

13. Blogger

14. Pearltrees

15. Research
• We also watched many Zombie Short films online
along with a couple of Zombie Feature films.To
find these feature films, we used Netflix as it has
“Zombie” as a listed Genre.

16. Netflix

17. Planning
• For planning, we mainly used CeltX as it is a free download
off the internet and it allowed us to write the script,
organise shooting days and a character list.This was an open
source software which means that the user can alter or
improve the software.
• Due to our film having such a large cast and so many
complex scenes to film. Planning was key to having successful
shooting days and getting all of the footage that was needed.

18. CeltX - Script

19. Script - Shooting Days

20. CeltX - Character List

21. Planning
• We also created our own blogs on Blogger to show this
planning and also to show how our research has developed
over time.
• The blogs can be found at:
• www10222a2gabrieltoumazis.blogspot.com
• www.10222a2ben.blogspot.com
• www.10222a2tomtom.blogspot.com

22. My Blog

23. Evaluation
• As there are three of us in the group, and there are four
questions.We discussed that we should do one question
each on different softwares and then, as a group, film the
three of us answering the questions as a film.
• Question one was made using a Prezi.This is an online
website in which we created an interactive presentation.

24. zizi
zizi

25. Evaluation
• Question two is the question that we
will answer with a group video.We will
all prepare an answer and some talking
points and then film us all talking about
them.We edited this video using iMovie
as it was a quicker process as we didn’t
have to keep rendering the footage and
it was easier to export.

26. OurVideo

27. Evaluation
• Question three was answered as a
Blog Post.This blog post features
audience feedback videos, stills from
the film and other important
information.

28. Q3 - Blog Post

29. Evaluation
• Question four(this question) was
answered using Keynote.This is a
very simple software to use.
However, it produces a very
professional presentation. It also
allowed me to link certain pages to
images(screen-shots).

30. Keynote