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

With the increased use of new media technologies such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube we as a group were able to use a wide variety of new technologies during the different stages of the project.

Research
During the construction and research stages questionnaires were created were uploaded to Survey Monkey and Facebook. Using Facebook meant that we could access a wider variety of young people as we got our friends to answer the questionnaire.


Although this could be consider a biased view as mainly young people answered the questionnaire on Facebook, young people are who the film is aimed at so we felt that it was acceptable to have mainly young people answer the questions.

Having the questionnaire uploaded onto Survey Monkey means that the feedback that we received was electronically recorded making it easier for us. Having the new media technologies has meant that we could access a wider audience of people and record data in an easier manner.

Research into genre
When we had chosen our genre which is psychological horror, we needed to do more research. Using YouTube in particular meant that we could look at other media students’ teaser trailers and professional teaser and full length trailers. Amateur horror teaser trailers were the most useful that we came across as we could see what did not work and it gave us inspiration for our teaser trailer.

Planning
During our filming we updated our Twitter and Blogger to inform the audience of our progress. This meant that we could keep a record of what we had done and also if anyone was following us on Twitter then they would feel involved with the progress of the film. As we are targeting Binding at a generation of people who regularly use social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook we felt that it was crucial to keep regular updates on the progress.
Before we started filming, we created a storyboard so we had a clear idea of the camera shots we would be using. After we did the storyboard, we created a short video slide show of the entire storyboard, page by page. This was then uploaded onto YouTube and then embedded onto the blog.

Evaluation
Using new media technologies when the teaser trailer was completed we put our teaser trailer not only on our website but also onto YouTube so we could get feedback from anyone who came across the teaser trailer.
We also used new media technologies throughout producing our main and ancillary tasks. Using these meant that we can access a wider audenice using these.

Binding is now on Digg!

As you can see (image after the jump), 'Binding's You Tube video has been added to Digg.com, allowing us to share our teaser trailer with the world. We currently have 3 diggs within the first couple of minutes. Digg also allows users to comment. Please digg us!

Start of the website

With our final design (shown below) we have started to create the website.


Stef and I created the template and layout of the website in publisher. We decided to go for a black background due to the title being black and white as continuity is important for the genre.

Nat edited the pictures so that they could be used in the website and this is the stage we are currently.

An idea we had for the website was for Alice (on the left) to be made black and white or the colour to be dimmed. This is the basic outline so far and we will add more in to make it reflective of a film website such as the age certificate. We will also add links to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook as the majority of films advertise this way as well using a website.

Helena

Creepy background music

I approached a member of YouTube.com about using an portion of the audio of their video within our teaser trailer.

Hello,

I am a representative from a group of A-Level media students creating a horror teaser trailer. We would like to use a section of the audio from your creepy music box video. Is the audio copyrighted? Would you be happy with allow us to use it within our short production?

Thank you,
Jack.

We were informed that the music was not copyrighted.

This is extremely fortunate and we are all happy that we can use the music within the teaser trailer. The music is creepy and very stereotypical of the horror genre. The music itself builds tension and is fitting with our storyboard.

 Jack

We're on YouTube!

We now have our own YouTube channel which can be visited through the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/group6media61681.

I have created it today and will be updating and adding content to our channel throughout the project, so please subcribe!

We have decided as a group that one of our forthcoming blog posts will be available in media form on the blog, which was my idea.

I have also suggested to the rest of the team to add labels to their blog posts. Please click on a label if you are seeking to read a specific topic that interests you on our blog

Jack