What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

constructing this product

By Nathalie Osada

iMovie

We used iMovie to edit our film. We all tookturns to have a go at editing our opening. I found iMovie quite complicated to use at the

beginning, but found as I became morefamiliar with using it, it became easier. Ithink it is a good tool to use to edit as it

works well and helped to make our opening look professional

iMovie

In our film we used transitions. These included fade in and fade out.We decided on these transitions after previewing several other

transitions including dissolve. We then agreed that fade in and fade outwould be more appropriate for our opening as it gave more of a

mysterious and ominous effect, which fits in perfectly with the mood ofour film.

We used the fade out transition at the end of scene 1 (where Sophie is hugging her children) – this signifies that this is the end of her

happiness and shows the audience that the day has changed from the first scene to the next.

We then used a fade in at the start of scene 2 (where Dr Campbell is sat at her desk opening Sophie’s case file – which is also the titles for our film). We used the fade in transition here as it added to the

suspense and overall atmosphere of the scene.

iMovie

We designed our titles on iMovie, we decided on a plain black background with grey lettering – we did this as it draws the audiences attention to the title of the film and they cannot be easily distracted by the film running over the top

of the titles

Blogger

To present our coursework for our film opening we decided to use Blogger. I

found blogger straightforward to use and easy to upload presentations onto from

programs, such as PowerPoint and Prezi. These are easily added to Blogger by

finding the embed code and copying the code into HTML box on blogger and then

composing the post

Prezi

One of the programs I used to present my coursework in a different format on

blogger was Prezi – Prezi is an internet based zoomable presentation canvas –

which enables you to present your work in a different and slightly unusual way. I found Prezi straightforward to use and

useful to be able to present my coursework in a fun and interesting way.