The document discusses the filmmaking process for a student production. It summarizes: 1) The group used a Canon camera and tripod to film their production, which improved quality and stability. Close-ups of the protagonist were filmed on a tripod while handheld shots were used for the antagonist. 2) They learned to use iMovie to edit their production by reordering clips, adding sound, and including opening credits to export the final video. 3) Websites like YouTube provided inspiration, while surveys on social media helped with audience research and expectations.

1. Evaluation 6: what have you learnt
from the process of constructing this
product

2. • While filming this production we used a Cannon Legria HF
R37 camera for our production with the tripod for our film
production to make our production more professional and
gave it a better quality while filming which obviously is
essential when producing a film of any sort. The tripod was
also very useful it held the camcorder at a still position and
reduces the camcorder form of shaking. The tripod was
most used while filming the close ups of the protagonist
and for the shots of the antagonist we used a handheld
style of recording this is used to disturb the audience while
giving the antagonist an animalistic feel to it. We also gave
the antagonist a lower position when compared to the
protagonist as most common fears of animals are smaller
such as snakes and spiders this helps us convey the
animalistic look. The time of day we filmed out production
helped adding the fear factor as the light conveys the
isolation and confinement.

3. • One of the software we have learnt to use from this production was
our use of IMovie this allowed us to change, edit and reorder our
production simply and easily and we used it to include the music to
change the tone of our production and add atmosphere. For our
production we made a draft cut to show the order of clips we
originally want that fits closely to our original storyboard. Once this
was done we then started to add sound and edit the clip length and
other qualities about the clips we have changed. Then finally once
the clips were in order and fitted with the sound for the production
we then added the opening credits we used the same order as we
found in our research and allowing us to export the project as an
mp4 and making it fast to upload onto YouTube.

4. • One the other hand, we have used certain websites to help
us with our film making. For example used YouTube videos
and films from the horror genre to get inspirational shots
which have helped when designing our shot list and filming
our production. We have also social networking to help us
with researching our production by sending surveys to a
large audience by using Facebook and twitter this gave use
a large idea of what our target audience wants and how
they would perceive the production.

5. • When talking about the strengths and weaknesses of
the equipment used, it had a mixture of both. One
weakness of the actual camcorder was that it didn’t
record in a file type which could be put into IMovie so
we had to use movie maker to change the file type to
MP4 which is usable in IMovie to allow us to edit and
change our clips for our production. This was a
problem because it would take a long time to import
the video into movie maker and then render it into
MP4 and this wasted time what could have been used
to editing allowing us to finish the final production
quicker. On the other hand one of the strengths of the
camcorder was that it very light while recording high
quality film this made it easier to film the hand held
shots for example the point of view shot from the
antagonist this was made simpler by the camcorders
usability.