Media AS evaluation

1. 6. WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT
TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE PROCESS
OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

2. INTRODUCTION
◦ Throughout the production of our film opening, we used a variety of technologies that were
new to us to help make progression in our film making.
◦ These technologies helped us to keep in contact with our actors in case there were any last
minute changes, this improved our communication skills and helped us to make efficient use of
our filming time.

3. BLOGGER
◦ During the research and production stages of our film, we used the programme
blogger to present any research we have done.
◦ We were able to produce our work in a chronological order and update it with new
content to show our film progression from idea to final product.
◦ The programme was new to both us so it took a while for us to figure out how to use
the blog to its best potential, we were able to develop our blogging skills which could
help me in the future if I were ever to set up another blog for a different reason.

4. LIVE TYPE
◦ We also used a programme called Live Type when coming up with the credits and titles for our
opening.
◦ It was another programme that we had both never used before and we had to teach ourselves
to use it which we did through watching YouTube videos. To begin with we found it quite a
difficult task but after a while it was an easy concept to grasp.
◦ The programme has lots of different elements to it for example fonts and effects, it allowed for
us to download different fonts off the internet that would be more suited towards our theme of
thriller.
◦ We could also adjust the positioning of the titles and change the font to fit in with the
conventions of the thriller genre.

5. FACEBOOK
◦ We used the social media site of Facebook to set up a group chat between all of the members
in our filming group so that we could keep in contact with each other to talk about different
aspects of filming.
◦ Also if there were any changes to the filming schedule then we would have let them know via
this group chat so that everyone was able to get the same message and there would have been
no miscommunication.
◦ We thought that Facebook would be the best way to keep in contact as we don’t all go to the
same school and as we all have Facebook and phones to notify us of messages it would be a
very convenient method.

6. IMOVIE
◦ Imovie is a film editing software that can be found on an apple mac computer, neither of us had
any experience using this programme until it came to doing the preliminary activity.
◦ We had to teach ourselves how to use the programme through trial and error, we found this not
a very difficult task to do so when it came to the final editing of the film we thought that we
would use this software again because it had all the technologies that we need.
◦ It was the most accessible, easy to use software. It had a simple, timeline layout helped us to
place the clips in a chronological order to get the effect that we wanted.
◦ Also we were able to detach any audio clips that were unwanted and increase pace and tone in
other clips, to add tension to the chase scene.

7. APPLE MACS
◦ The media room that we produced our opening in was equipped with 21.5 inch apple mac stand
alone computers which had many different types of software uploaded onto it e.g livetype that
allowed us to produce a high quality film opening.
◦ We were able to use the computers efficiently as we had used them before lower down in
school so it was easy to figure out what we should do to use it to its best advantage.
◦ The high definition screens allowed us to stop and prefect minor details during the editing
process to make the opening as good as it can be.

8. YOUTUBE
◦ Youtube is a internet website where videos can be uploaded and seen by anyone around the
world who has an internet connection, it is an efficient way for your video to be seen by a wide
audience.
◦ It is a large, well known website around the world so we have both had experience with using
and uploading onto the site which is why we found it an efficient site to use to showcase our
production.

9. CAMERA
◦ For filming, we used a Panasonic HDC-SD700 camera as it shoots in HD to give out film a high
quality picture allowing our film to look more professional instead of a low budget, amateur
film.
◦ We had already used this equipment before during our preliminary task so we didn’t find it
difficult to progress our understanding to a higher level.
◦ The high camera quality allowed for us to experiment with different shots that would look blurry
on other cameras and also give clear POV shots from the different characters to add towards the
context of the narrative.
◦ Also we could get clear close ups on characters to highlight their feelings during the more
emotional scenes.

10. TRIPOD
◦ During filming, we used a CX-888 tripod to go along with the camera that we used.
◦ Neither of us had ever used equipment like this before so it was difficult to work out how to use
it to begin with but once we did it helped us to create seamless camera shots.
◦ By using the tripod we had a large amount of options to choose from when it came to camera
angles as we could change from high angle to low angle in a matter of minutes.
◦ We could also easily to effective camera movements for example panning and tracking, this
gave our production a professional look as the camera moved without being bumpy to give it a
HD quality.