What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?
Research and planning
Lino it, this is a tecnolgy which
I used when answering my
evaluation questions, Its very
easy to use and pictures can
be added. The boxes you add
to type in are colour
coordinated and look like
posted notes which make It
clear and easy to read from as
well as keeping it organised.
Skype is a technology I used when having a audio call with Mike
Harrows. The link bellow is the Skype call we had In class, students
asked Mike questions to help them with their opening title sequence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THvC9LE-KdI&app=desktop
Blogger was a new technology that I had never used before. I had no experience with blogs so I had to learn how its set out and organised. I also
allowed my posts to be shared publicly, as I looked online to gain more of an understanding on other peoples media blogs. All my media coursework
has been put on to my blog, once I knew how to use it I found it easy and I believe its a good way to present work and keep it all together. Other
online links and websites can be embed in the HTML code which is pasted then updated on to the blog.
Slide share, emaze and pretzi are fun ways of presenting power point presentations, I used
when presenting my evaluation questions. It allows you to be creative and design your slide
show the way you want it to look. Images and text can be combined together with different links
of looking at them. All these technologies were new to me but once I played around with them I
found them very effective and easy to use. They also look colourful and full of pictures which is
very eye-catching and effective.
An email was sent to Mike asking for feedback on our opening title sequence,
we took his points into consideration along with other people we interviwed
asking for feedback. This is the email back from Mike with the feedback we
needed.
Throughthe planning and researching stages of production the internet was used
regularly to find information and websites relating to our thriller such as IMDB.I also used
to internet to search copy right websites to find a track which I could use in my opening
title sequence. We also used the internet to save images. This technology was relied on
to find out certain information during the research process, I am used to using the internet
and find it easy I would usually search on Google which would link me to websites with
the information on that I was looking for.
Production
To film my opening title sequence i used a digital camera canon 700D. When I filmed my GCSE footage I
used anolog camera, therefore I had Having a basic knowledge of using digital cameras. The device was not
difficult to use and I found it easy to film from as I knew the techniques of panning and was confident using a
digital camera. To make the camera steady we used a tripod when filimng so it was clear and looked
professional. I decided to use the digital camera to take pictures of the girl which we used in our footage, as the digital camera had a higher quality compared to an iphone.
When filming our footage we wanted it to look dark and eerie, so when we first filmed the only use of light we had was candles. When it came to editing this footage it
looked grainy and poor quality. We decided to film our opening title sequence again and had help from a man called 'Ryan Eyre'. He set up the lighting which we used to
make the footage look dark although it was clear and looked professional.
Post Production
Once my opening title sequence was filmed,
we used the Adobe Premiere Pro software. I
was confident when using this software to
edit as I used it in GCSE when editing
footage, we also used this software to edit
our preliminary task on, Although I had
forgotten some things I got the hang of it
again and found it very easy. I used
transition tools such as fade to black and
dissolve which I placed between clips to
elaborate on the imagination of the
paedophile. This added tension and looked
very effectively. I also inserted titles, which
are shown in opening credits.By using the
title slide and inserting the names on to it. A
new tool I learnt how to use was inserting
audio, I learnt how to fade music in and out
and place the audio were I wanted the music
to be heard.
Throughout the editing stage we added sound
effects. We created our Foley on garage band, for
example when the match strikes I used my nails to
scratched across a table to give the effect that a match
has been lit. I have not used garage band before,
nor have I used the microphones we used to record the audio so
me and Kelly Simpson watched video tutorials on
YouTube to gain an understand on how to create our foleys.