Question 6What have you learnt about technologies from

the process of constructing this product?

Camera

• The camera we used to film our opening sequence was a Canon HD. Using this camera enabled us to film in good quality and use basic features like zooming in and out, pull focus and playback the footage we have filmed to see how we have filmed it and whether it needs to be re-filmed. The camera was set on automatic which made it much easier as we did not have to worry about pulling it in focus all the time and setting the brightness. Also, the camera was lightweight which made it easier to carry around the school.

Tripod • We learnt that the tripod is an essential tool needed

for the whole production. Without it the quality of the footage will decrease due to it being a handheld camera. The tripod made sure the shots were straight which made it look professional. Our opening sequence had to look professional as it was a mainstream film rather than an independent.

Blogger

• Blogger is the website we used to regularly record the progress we made during the production. It was chronological, therefore making it efficient to find certain posts.

iMovie• iMovie is a non-linear editing software which enables

you to edit out of sequence. It makes it easier to edit as everything does not need to be finished to start editing, which saves time. In addition, it allowed us to play around with the music to suit our opening sequence. It lets you playback the sequence you have edited so far to inform you on how it looks and whether you need to film it again.

YouTube

• We used YouTube to upload our preliminary, rough cut and final cut. We also used it to embed codes of videos which were appropriate to what we were doing on blogger. It was also a way to view other thriller opening sequences to get ideas from.

Adobe After Effects

• This software was used to create our titles. Due to the narrative involving the internet we wanted some text similar to the one involved in ‘The Matrix. We found it very difficult to grasp hold of the concept of how to do this. However, we managed to understand how it worked through tutorials.