4. The MACs
• The Macs themselves were one of our most important tools as
they contains all the software we needed to complete the
production of our film.
• Each bit of software within the Mac was useful in completing of
our project, for example used iPhoto quite a lot, mainly to obtain
audience feedback for different blogposts (e.g. music) and also
feedback on our actual opening.This enabled us to see what
works in thriller openings and what didn’t and helped us to
identify what elements of a thriller we should use in our own
opening.
• The main strength of the macs would have to be the availability
of applications as well as the ability to store our unfinished
project as we went along, including any footage we did not want
to lose.
5. Lighting
• The portable LED lights were very effective when it came
to our actual filming mainly because the interior of the
house was particularly dark when the lights were turned
off.We did not want to keep the actual house lights on as it
didn’t give an the ominous feel that we wanted to achieve.
• Therefore the use of the LED lights enabled us to maintain
quite a dark and eerie look around the house while
keeping visibility of Frank himself and important objects
around the house (e.g.The broken picture frame.
• For example when filming the close up of Frank’s face
towards the end of our opening we sued the LED lights for
both key and fill light to compensate for the darkness of
the room and to also create a more sinister appearance.
• The lights were very easy to use and did not make much
work to figure out suitable placement of the lights when
actually filming
7. Prezi, Blogger, SlideShare
• Prezi and Slide share were the two most effective methods for
sharing things like evaluation points questions and construction posts
to evaluate different aspects of our project e.g. focus groups on
thriller openings and what aspects were most effective.
• Both were a bit difficult to work at first but after observing others use
slide share, and several attempts at using Prezi for different
evaluation questions I became used to both as they became easier to
use.
• They proved very convenient as you could simple make a
presentation and quickly upload these onto the blogs using
(Blogger). Blogger was also very effective as it is the place where all
of our posts and information are collated all in one place, creating
ease of access and convenience.
