Evaluation – New Media Technologies.
During the production of my various texts, I encountered many different types of new technologies but two of the most influential was the use of Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Elements. Both of these are editing software’s (Photoshop for photos and Elements for video) which allowed me too adjust and obviously edit my texts they way I wanted. Premier Elements was new software too me because I’d never used it before but was vey easy to get a hold of. It allowed me to bring my video clips and audio clips which I had recorded together and create my trailer with the greatest of ease. Simply combining video and audio together wasn’t hard but getting to grips with techniques on how to create effects and alter the look of the video did get tricky sometimes. 
This is the basic start up screen for Premier Elements.
I’m not going to go into the specific techniques I used because 1. I can’t remember how long it took to edit my trailer but it was a very long time and can’t remember all the techniques I used and 2. Even if I could remember it would probably fill my entire blog. However, I’ll share with you some significant points during the editing of my trailer which I can remember and hopefully it will help you understand why my trailer came out looking like it did.
So one of the major edits I made was changing practically the entire first half of my trailer into black and white. You can see the original in the post ‘Final Edit. On February 12th 2010’ In order to change it to black and white all I had to do was change the saturation of the clips and adjust them to the darkness level that I wanted. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get any screen shots of the work I did which I’m regretting not getting but I’m sure you know how it’s all done.
The other main editing problem I had was trying to match the audio I had with my video clips. There were specific points in the song I chose I wanted to match with parts of my video. I began by editing the song I had using Nero WaveEditor 9. I managed to cut down the song from around 2.13 minutes to 1.50 minutes by removing parts of the song I found were not relevant.
I felt that by editing the music first I could specifically match my video with crucial parts in the song. However in order to get the timing perfect I had to take of small parts of different parts of my video clips which was hard but did get rather repetitive after a while.
I know that’s only a few things I have described there but all the other techniques were pretty simple and quite self explanatory when it comes to using elements so I shared the ones I felt necessary and relevant to my trailer.
