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

The following are images of technology I used during the production of our film and the creation of my marketing campaign;

• We filmed Toast on a Sony DSR-PD150 DVCAM
• We used a Mic on a shotgun boom to record the sound with headphones.
• When recording sound for external shots we used a wind muff to cover the microphone.
• We used a Pro-Light for the some of our internal lighting.
• We used different colour gels at different percentage intensity to create different lighting effects.
• To edit our film we used Adobe Editing suite.
• The photograph I used for my marketing campaign I took using a Panasonic lumix DMC FZ28

If we had not had all of this technology available to us during our films production, we would have just used natural lighting or, in the cases when artificial lighting was needed especialy for internal shots, we may have used such light sources such as lamps and positioned them in certain ways to create the desired lighting effects and to create shadows for example. Regarding sound, if we did not have such technology as the microphone, headphones, boom or wind muff, we may have had to either record sound over the footage using a more simple camcorder, or we may have had to just film the entire piece with a simpler camcorder which has a microphone built in. If we hadn't had the Adobe editing suite, we may have had to use a much simpler editing suite, for example Windows movie maker. From using this technology, I have learned specificaly how to set up a Pro Light, and how closing the 'barn doors' creates different light intensity and effects. I have learned to leave any lighting technology for at least thirty minutes before packing it away to allow the light to cool down and prevent any burning or danger. In AS, I didn't use any form of lighting technology, and so I have developed skills this year in different lighting effects, for example, the percentage of colour gels to use to create certain effects, for example, 100% blue when aiming to achieve a very cool and deep blue effect, and only 50% blue to create a less intense cool effect. 100% red makes the room a dramatic red, and I also learned that you can use two different gels together, for example, we used for the opening scene of Toast a 100% blue gel and a white gel which made the room bright and cool, giving an early morning effect. I also learned to use black and silver foil to bend around the light to create shadows of various intensity. When using the editing technology, from AS, I've learnt how to create rolling credits at the end of a film, and have also learnt how to overlap the sound levels by lowering them at the end of one shot, and then raising them at the start of the next, in order for the sound to flow more naturaly.