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

We have used mobile phones to take pictures of our work and locations of were we filmed and locations were it would be good to film, and create a mood board so that we can pick and choose which locations look and suit the best and then go and film there. mobile phones have helped a great deal as we have taken pictures of locations as well as being able to upload them instantly. 

We used Apple Macs to edit our trailer which helped us greatly as it is very self explanatory and easy to use with great outcomes as it enabled us to create very smooth fades as well as sharp cuts. we had a few problems as we could not find out how to cut the in segment to just show only the film and not carry on with the music, but this was soon sorted and we finally had our finished product.

 We found that using Photoshop for our film poster and magazine helped us aswell as it is very detailed and advanced and Jamie knew how to use it so this to was a bonus for our group. We made the photo black and white to show that it was a sad trailer with no happiness. This had a good effect as we could then dim the shading of the photo that little bit more to really exaggerate the photo and make it stand out. 

However, we did have problems with the camera we used as the battery life on them were very bad, so we could only do little bits of filming at a time and then we had to keep charging it up and even then when they were charged they still played up but in the end we got all the filming done. We also had trouble with burning the trailer onto a CD because we didnt know how to cut the music out but after all we had figured it out so it was fine and we were very pleased with our end product.