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

Throughout our whole production and planning of our film we used a series of media technologies to help us. These included constant contact via mobile phones whether it was text messaging or phone calls.

During the research side of our film we used technologies such as computers and the internet to research a series amount of topics such as similar films that relate to ours, reflexivity and iconography of the horror genre, poster research, magazine review research, textual analysis of films, target audience etc, the internet helped us to produce all of these. We also used books to help us with the research too.

During the planning of our film we used a digital camera and Windows Movie Maker to create a photo storyboard of our film, we took photographs of a model doing the scenes that we wanted in our film. We also used not only mobile phones but emails and social networking sites to decide between us when and where we would film.

During the construction of our film we used many media technologies including: camera, editing equipment, dolly, tripod etc. obviously we used the camera to film the entire film, we used a series of angles so we got a vast number of shots to edit. We used the editing at school to edit our film, this was what took a lot of time, and we had to also go in our own time to edit. The tripod was used to keep the camera still which came in great use. The dolly also was a necessity in some of the scenes, my role when doing this was to push Scott whilst he was filming with the camera. Throughout this stage we all kept in contact via mobile phones and Facebook.

During the evaluation stages we took notes on how to answer the evaluation questions and any problems we had we either asked our teacher at school or asked each other via mobile phones.