2. 6. What have you learnt
about technologies from
the process of
constructing the
product?
3. Originally, before I had started this project I did
not know much about the technologies from the
process of constructing a product. I had used
Sony Vegas which is an application that can be
used to construct a media product, I used this
previously to create a trailer. I had also used
windows movie maker previously in order to
construct a media product.
We went through a whole process before
actually making our opening. We thought that we
would make a thriller as that was a genre that
had stood out to all of our group members. We
did online research on people like Kyle Cooper
and Saul Bass in order to know more about
openings. As we were doing a thriller we decided
to go into more depth and do some analysis’ on
opening sequences of thrillers.
4. We already had locations in our minds when it came to the planning stage so
we went out and found different locations for our opening. The main
locations that you will see are:
• The woodland area/forest
• Bedroom 1
• Bedroom 2
5. We wanted quite realistic settings so we decided on these
real locations, we didn’t want an over the top location, we
just wanted it quite simplistic. The woods is quite typical for
a thriller but it also looked eerie and spooky so that was
good for our opening. We went into more depth on how to
blog during this planning stage and we also got more used
to camera equipment with having to do location shots for a
location sheet that we did that included health and safety
aspects of the location.
6. We then went onto the construction stage after this.
I learnt a lot more about new technologies in this stage. I learnt
more about working the camera and more effective techniques on
how to film so that it looks good. This stage had enables us to open
our horizons to new editing techniques with the editing technology
Song Vegas. One of the editing techniques I had learnt was how to
enhance colours, which we did for the red on the clips. We did this
by using the effect ‘pure red screen’ and dragging it onto each of
the clips. Another effect we used was ‘darker less contrast’ which
gave our clips less contrast and made them look darker, which also
helped the red stand out more. Music was a bit of a problem during
this process, one problem was choosing the song but another was
the fact that we didn’t want it to just cut out at the end as it wouldn’t
sound good so to get around this problem we made the song fade
out so it flowed more. We needed transitions for the titles as we
wanted them to be different compared to the usual titles that just
appear over the clip so we used portals.
7. To evaluate our work we had a focus group and got feedback in order to improve. Each individual told us
there views and some gave us improvements. We were also able to get feedback from family members who
could give us views and opinions and this was good as it was more of a variety of people.
Feedback
Positive
feedback
Improvements
