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

2. The Internet
The internet was an extremely helpful tool which allowed me and cassie to research several different in depth with the
help of websites like youtube, wikipedia and the IMDB websites. For example, using youtube allowed me to locate
another short film horror which was incredibly successful. With the help of new media technology, I was allowed
to locate horror texts and decontruct them, in order to plan and research for my horror film. I also used television
advertisements, and deconstructed them on my blog after finding them on the internet. All this information helped
me develop the basic narrative which we initially created, and helped create a more powerful short film horror.

3. New Media Technologies
In the filming and editing stages of my main task, we used new media technologies such as an apple iMac, a video
camera several other computer resources like file converters and scanners for the initial planning. After experimenting
with new media technologies over the course, and already having some experience from preliminary filming, me and
Cassie were more than capable to construct a preliminary film, and also experiment with lighting for our practise shots
when we were trying to include a convention from ‘The Poltergeist’. We used a silhouette effect by only using one light
source and experimenting with different effects on the camera and different lenses, which gave us this result (bottom
left).

4. iMac
To the right is a picture
of Cassie using iMovie,
and experimenting with
some of the features that
are included in the
editing system. This was
essential for our planning
and preparation because
it allowed us to gain
some understanding and
experience with the
software before we had
to use it for our final
product.

5. Ancillary tasks
A key component of new media technologies is photoshop, and this was essential for our ancillary tasks because the
images we took using a camera needed to be digitally re-mastered by using a variety of different effects and
layering options, which helped in the construction stages of both my double page spread and my film poster.