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

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.

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 the Tri-pod, we added in the
FX sound of a smash which increases the sound of the hit and makes it more realistic.

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.

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.
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.

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.
We also created our own blogs on Blogger to show
this planning and also to show how our research
has developed over time.
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.

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.

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.

Question three was answered as a Blog Post.

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).

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