Evaluation activity 6 - What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

- For our sound and voice over we recorded it on our iphone app. We used a piano for our sound which we recorded and then sent to ourselves over email. Furthermore, for our voice over we recorded the voice over which we also sent to ourselves. We found this the easiest way to get our voice and sound to our opening two minutes.

 

 - We used a tripod which we borrowed from school to make sure the shots were steady. It made us get the right shots and angles and if we wanted to tilt the camera we could as the tripod makes it stable and gets in more focus of the shots we want to take this shows to the audience that there not watching a constructed film and its a professional film. However, we didn't use the tripod in all of the scenes as the scene where the antagnist went behind the victim ( me ) on the bridge we wanted to make it look like it was from the antagonists perepctive as he was walking up behind the victim in doing this the antagonist held the camera.

- For our sound we used a piano to create our soundtrack and backing music. It made it more realistic and demonstrated that we can make our own music. The tone of the music we used varried from low to high which created more suspense.

- For all of our film which included the editing sound and emailing stuff over to create the final opening two minutes we used our laptop which made it more oragnised as everything was on one laptop. It took around five hours to create our opening two minutes.

- We used our own camera for filming as we found it easier to use than the schools ones which they was going to provide us with. We used normal settings on the camera and no effect as we was going to edit it on movie maker. We found this more effective way as we shall be able to see the scenes and shots we filmed more clearly. For our title of the film we took a picture of the pathway and then put the title 'the pathway' and then editied it to make it link with our opening two minutes.

- To edit our film we used movie maker. We found it easier to use to edit our opening two minutes. We were advised to use adobe but we felt that we shall not be able to figure out how to work it and edit it and we felt more comfortable doing it with movie maker as we have used it before which is something which helped us create our opening two minutes.
- Movie maker is known as windows movie maker. It is part of windows essentials software suite and offers the ability to create and edit videos and includes being able to publish them on skiydrive, flickr and youtube.
- There is many choices of editing, animation and effects. However we felt that the way we wanted to create the look and feel of the film we wanted,  this consisted of using -
- Slow motion - which created more suspense twoards the audience which is what horror genre films include in there films.
- Animation - For animation we used the blur through black. This effect we applied towards the end of the opening two minutes when the victim ( me ) meets the antagonist and screams. We felt this shall look better as it makes it go with the flow more and has a flash to part where the vitcim ( me ) scream.
- Visual effects - As there is a varried amount of options to choose from for the effects we went with the most basic effect which was black and white and we decreased the brightness and increased the contrast which made it more of a horror genre film and a dark look which is what we wanted to go for.
- Video volume - For our sound we used video volume to decrease or increase the volume. Which we did to create the effect we wanted as having quiet music gradully getting louder and fast made it more of a suspense which links with a horror genre film.
- Each of our clips were longer than we antisipated and when they were all together it was longer than 2 minutes. To improve this we cut the clips to right part of each clip which made that link with each of the other clips which made it go with the flow and connect more like a horror genre film.

- YouTube was included in our opening two minutes editing as we added the videos from our opening two minutes on there to create the videos then we added them all together which made the opening two minutes. This was to ensure us that the videos saved. We found this the easiest way to save the videos and our opening two minutes.


















- Adobe premiere elements 10 was included in our editing for our opening two minutes. We used this to include titles in our opening two minutes which included the directors, editors, producers and the cast.
-We decided not to use this for editing all of our opening two minutes as we didn't know how to work the editing site and we didn't want to be behind in our editing and evaulations this is why we decdied to use movie maker which we know how to use as we have used it for tasks in other lessons before and we found simple to use. In A2 we are planning on using adobe as we shall have time to play around with it and see how it works and we have used it to edit our titles of the film which we completed.
- Editing we used
- We went on title then new title then defualt still then chose a font style then decreased the size of the font to make it fit in with the opening two minutes as we didn't want it to devalue the opening two minutes.

 

- When creating a film you have to consider technogies of production which makes the film look professional and something the audience wants to which. Aspects to consider when creating a film include the quality of software whether is high or low. If you have high quality software it creates more of a professional look for a film. The quailty of the film also depends on where you upload it whether its in a site which is reliable in which you know your film shall be saved and uploaded to. Funding and how much you spend on creating your film shall be an important aspect to creating your film as you need to budget each part of equipment used and technology as the film producers want to make the film as professional as possible and by spending a certain amount of money of the technologies of production you shall want to have more of a profit and in doing this by having high quailty stuff shall re-enforce this which is important in the filming industry and for opening two minutes.