1. GLOGSTER FACEBOOK
TWITTER
KNOVIO
PHOTOSHOP FINAL CUT PRO
How did you use new
media technologies in the
construction and SURVEY MONKEY
SLIDESHARE
research, planning and
evaluation stages?
AUDIOBOO
WORDLE
PREZI
VIMEO SONY A1

2. Photoshop was used to construct both the magazine cover and the film
poster for our film. Before construing the ancillary products I had basic
knowledge of Photoshop but I was keen to expand the skills I
had, through producing the ancillary products and watching tutorials
online, my skills have developed and therefore the ancillary products
have been successful with the target audience featured in the audience
feedback.
PHOTOSHOP

3. We chose Final Cut Pro to edit our footage for our film trailer, this
program helped us piece together our trailer effectively. Prior to
editing, we spent some time getting to grips with the software and
experimenting with different tools and aspects of the program to
enable us to make our trailer as conventional as possible. We
used transitions to help our trailer flow from one scene to another. We
also learned how adjusting levels on the sound made a huge different
to the outcome of our trailer. I found that editing video and sound was
straight forward once I learned the basics of the program.
FINAL CUT PRO

4. I used the program Prezi to present my initial research regarding
Connotations of ‘Slasher films’, I had never used it before and found
it a different and more interactive way of presenting information. Its
a more exciting program as it is a more sophisticated way of
presenting information as oppose to a PowerPoint presentation, I
will definitely be using this program in the near future.
PREZI

5. I used Audioboo originally to upload a trailer analysis for my
initial research. I used this program again as part of my
evaluation question. I liked this program as it enabled me to
upload audio clips to my blog easily.
AUDIOBOO

6. I used Windows Movie Maker to present another trailer analysis I
produced, this was one of the trailer analysis's that took a great deal
of time. Firstly I analysed the trailer 'House of Wax' and then I chose
the most important shots within the trailer which I needed
to analyse in detail, I then recorded audio clips and dragged them
into the timeline according to the part in the trailer I was
analysing, it was very time consuming but helped me identify key
conventions within ‘Slasher’ trailers
WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER

7. Slideshare was a program I used most, it is easy and efficient and I feel I
will also use this program in the future. I made PowerPoint's, summarising
Conventions of 'Slasher' films, to analyse one of my film trailers and to
discuss audience theories. This program enabled me to upload my
PowerPoint's to my blog as well as making them look more professional.
SLIDE SHARE

8. Glogster was an experimentation, I decided
to identify conventions of existing film posters of the
'Slasher' genre using this program, it was fun and made
the analysis look colourful and better to look at with use
of funky arrows and a variety of text boxes.
GLOGSTER

9. I have used Wordle before and loved the idea of
presenting information with words in an artistic way, I
decided to use this program again to conduct initial
research and to also summarise conventions.
WORDLE

10. We used a Sony A1 video recorder when gathering audience research, none
of the members in my group had ever used one of these before so we had a
go and found it straight forward to use. The video camera had a built in
sound microphone so audio was collected as well as video.
SONY A1 & BUZZBI VIDEO RECORDER

11. We used a Buzzbi video recorder to record audience reactions, as
part of initial research. We used YouTube to upload, audience
feedback and reactions.
BUZZBI VIDEO RECORDER

12. We used a program called Celtx to write our script for our trailer, I
found it quite complicated when we were first introduced to the
software by our lecturer. When we experimented with this software it
became relatively straight forward. By creating our script on Celtx, it
helped us greatly when coming to actually shoot the trailer.
Celtx

13. YouTube and Vimeo are well-known websites and very easy to use, I set up an
account so I was able to upload our video footage straight from my computer
to YouTube and then put them on to my blog.
YOUTUBE & VIMEO

14. We created a survey using Survey Monkey prior to producing
our film trailer and ancillary texts to gain some more
knowledge of our target audience and what things appeal to
them. It was relatively easy to generate the survey, we could
decide on what type of questions we wanted to be featured
e.g. open or closed questions.
SURVEY MONKEY

15. We advertised our survey on our existing Facebook and Twitter
pages, to encourage more people to complete our survey as well
as generating a wider target audience.
We also used Facebook to get some audience feedback for our
evaluation on our film poster and magazine cover.
SOCIAL NETWORKING