2. iMac
During the construction of our thriller we
learnt how to use different types of
technology. We used this to make our thriller
as interesting and as realistic as possible.
One of the main types of technology that we
used was the iMac. The iMac was the most
common piece of technology that we used.
This was because the iMac had all the
programs that we needed to edit and make
out thriller.
This is me using the iMac whilst
constructing our thriller.
3. During the construction of our thriller we
used mobygratis.com for our music. We
used this site for our music as its one of
the sites that we were able to use without
having any copyright issues. We
downloaded three different tracks from
Mobygratis to use at different stages for
our thriller. When going on this site, we
had the chance to choose from a
selection of tracks that would be suitable
for our thriller. Once we had all agreed on
the selected tracks I requested a license
and once approved was able to use the
track that we had selected. To use the
track we had to download the selected This is confirmation
that me and my
track and apply it to the timeline of our
group have used
movie on Final cut Express.
mobygratis.com
4. We also used Final Cut Express to edit our
thriller. This was the most important piece of
technology that we used as it helped us to
make our thriller by being able to upload it
This is an on there and be able to add
illustration of transitions, effects and music on to the
our group timeline. This piece of technology was the
using Final Cut most important as it was the main source of
Express for our technology that helped us construct our
music! thriller. To use this we had to upload our
video from the camera and add effects and
transitions . By using this we have learnt that
were able to add transitions and effects to
make out thriller as realistic and at the best
possible standard as was able for us to
complete.
This is another illustration of our
group using Final Cut Express to
edit our thriller!
5. We used surveymonkey.com to Before we started our filming we talked
get audience research. We asked
them the following questions:
about the target audience. We then got This is an
1) Are you a male of our results and looked at what people illustration of the
female? wanted in a thriller and what results that we
2) Do you enjoy thrillers? aspect/feature they enjoyed the most. received after we
3) What is the best aspect The first option which our audience posted our
of a thriller? choose was suspense and in second place question on
4) How many times do was mind games. Once seeing these surveymonkey.com
you go to the cinema results we added both of these
in a month? aspects/features onto our thriller. Our
5) Where do you watch target audience are teenagers/ young
films from? adults.
6) How old are you?
7) What are your favorite
thriller films?
6. Blogger was the website which we used to post
everything that we have and the process and the
way we done everything that we had to for us to
be able to film our thriller. I used blogger as a
diary and wrote all the things we done , how and
we updated it every time we had something to
write and added pictures and videos during the
filming, or the final products. Blogger kept track
of everything that we done. We also analyzed
films, thriller openings, music, mise en scene,
characters, setting and the audience.
This is an illustration of
my blog and the posts!
7. These are
screenshots of the
group using live
type!!
During the construction of our thriller we also
used live type for the titles and the names.
We used live type to make our thriller as
interesting and as professional looking as
possible. The font that we used throughout
the whole thriller was named “cracked”. We
also used this font to emphasize the tension,
suspense and shock of our thriller.
8. Youtube was also a very important technology that
we used . We used youtube to upload our work on to
it , then transfer it onto our blog. We also used
youtube to watch thriller opening or certain aspects
of a thriller to analyze it and be able to use what we
learnt, in able for us to produce our own thriller.
Youtube was very important to technology to us
because it helped us research thriller
openings, endings and titles and how effectively they
are used. We were also able to watch previous
thrillers from past students to help us come up with
ideas and camera techniques that were available to
us.
9. The camera which we used to film
was Canon MD101. This was the most This was the tripod
important piece of technology as it and the camera
was the main source that we used for that we used to film
us to be able to film our thriller, our thriller.
research for target audience and also
film our preliminary task. We used
this camera and the tripod (Slik
U8000). Both of these pieces of
technology were important as we
used both of them to film.
These are pictures
of our group using
the camera and
tripod whilst
filming
10. Mobile phones was also and important
piece of technology that we used whilst
constructing our thriller, although we did
not use our phones as much as the other
pieces of technology to construct our
thriller we have used did use it and it was
very helpful. One of the main reasons why
we used our mobile phone was to take
pictures of our location that we where
going to film in and take pictures whilst
filming. Another reason that we used our
phones was for bluetooth, we manages to
connect our phone bluetooth to the iMac’s
bluetooth to transfer photos. We also used
the iMac’s bluetooth to transfer files to
and from other iMac’s. This was very
important and helpful as I made the
construction of our thriller easier and more
effective.