1. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
1. What did you use making your film?
Research, planning, post production?
Internet- specific websites/searches, digital camera, imovie
and publishing programmes.
What did the technology you used allow you to do?
What skills have you developed?
What were you able to achieve?
Show screen shots of opening from your film where you have used
technology to manipulate/crop/edit images.
(This can be put on your blog, but needs to be punctuated with
lots of visuals and examples.)
When filming my Action Zombie Horror opening I used a digital
camera and tri pod in order to get good quality video clips to
put together as my opening. The tripod was very important as it
allowed me to have my camera steady and I was able to adjust
the size of it depending on what camera shots or movement if
needed to use. Throughout my research I used the internet to
find out about Action Zombie Horror genres to get a good idea
of what key aspects I would need to be including in my planning
and opening.
I used websites such as slide share and imbd and YouTube to
watch openings of specific Action Zombie Horror genre films,
some of these included Zombieland and Dawn of the Dead. These
helped me a lot as I was able to get a real grasp of what
similar footage I should be aiming to film.
I used imovie to create a movie to get all of my ideas and
examples of film openings together and compare them against
each other to enable me to get an even broader idea of the
genre and all the iconography and aspects that come along with
it. The technology I used allowed me to explore the genre in
great depth which was extremely useful as I now have a greater
use of knowledge surround these genre films.
I have developed many skills, my main achievement was using
imovie because I found it ever so difficult to use at the
beginning when creating my documentary. I now know how to use
imovie to better my work and this will be very useful for me in
future projects. Imovie was the best software for me to use to
edit my movie as it allowed me to;
-split clips and add in transitions, crop the clip
-Edit sound- volume of tracks, ducking, music
-Stabilize clip motion
-Change the colour, brightness, opacity, contrast etc
-create titles using a font that I simply downloaded
I improved on my organisation as there was a lot involved in
the planning of my film. I felt most organised when I had
completed all of my filming which was as a planned and nothing
majorly was changed from my planning to filming which is good.
I found it challenging at times when having to sort out a
location to film my opening and the actors and actresses I had
2. to get and explain in depth what I wanted them to do for me,
But thankfully in the end it all worked out as I completed an
opening which I am pretty proud of.
Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have
learnt in the progression from it to the full product?
How have your skills developed from the prelim task?
Compare your prelim task to your completed opening.
What skills have you now mastered?
What were you able to consider because of the prelim task?
My skills have developed from the preliminary task through imovie as
I didn’t apply much technical change to it whereas in my final
product I did apply change to some of it to make it more effective
and to look better. In my final product I used various different
camera movement and shots such as close ups, tracking and panning
whereas in the preliminary task I used a 360 degree rule, medium
shots and a close up. I also added in music which I didn’t do in my
preliminary task as it wasn’t needed. The
