The document discusses the technologies used to film an opening sequence. A Canon camcorder, tripod, and light reflector were used to capture quality footage. The tripod helped keep the camcorder steady and allowed high and low angle shots. The light reflector helped manipulate lighting on subjects. GarageBand software was used to create soundtrack music by manipulating loops. Final Cut Pro allowed editing clips, adding effects, and positioning credits. Websites like Google Images provided inspiration for shots, and Blogger hosted planning and research. Overall, these technologies were essential pillars for constructing and producing the film.

2. When filming your opening sequence, we used the canon camcorder, tripod
and light reflector. The canon camcorder was really easy to use and
captured film of good quality which obviously essential when producing a
film of any sort. The tripod was also very useful it held the camcorder at a
still position and reduced the camcorder form shaking. The tripod was most
helpful when filming the shot of the clock. Within the room the clock was
mounted over the bed and was too high. Moreover, standing on the bed
produced alot of shaking without the tripod. Additionally, the tripod has
adjustable height, this is important as we wanted to capture alot of high
and low angled shots. Lastly, the light reflector came in handy as we could
manipulate the light into the face of our antagonist and most importantly
objects in which we wanted to show detail. The shot to the left below is
clear example at where the light reflector really came into use.

3. Another piece of technology we learnt about was garageband. This
software enables us to create our own music track with the use and
manipulation of loops provided by the program itself. This was really
useful in creating our soundtrack as it had categories such as:
Orchestra, Jazz, Drums etc to help us locate a particular sound.
Also the export of the mp3 was really quick and easy.

4. Finalcut is a program where you can edit and create video/films. We started
using finalcut even before filming for our sequence so we were familiar with
it. From using finalcut, u was able to log and transfer our clips form the
camcorder into finalcut express. From here we placed them on a timeline in
order and edited them. This program let us add effects and transitions such
as fade in fade out. Secondly, it enabled us to use a wireframe which lets use
shrink, increase and move the clip inside the frame and also allowed us to
position our credits in the right place.
Print screen of final cut here

5. On the other hand, we used certain websites
to help us with our film making. We used
Google images to search for inspiring shots
which aids us with mise en
scene, lighting, camera angles etc. For
example
this shot from the film se7en found in
Google images helped us design our setting.
We also used blogger
to create posts, share
ideas for our film and
answer evaluation
questions
We also made the use of
livetype which helped us
create our fonts and titles
used in our film.

6. Overall, i have learnt that the use of technologies used to construct our
product were the pillars of our film. Without these technologies such as
finalcut and garageband we would have had great difficulty producing
and editing and creating a soundtrack for our film. From the use of the
canon camcorder i am now able to record clips, from the use of livetype
to create fonts that represent aspects and develop emotions and
lastly, the use of blogger into which our planning, ideas and research was
embedded to assist us to produce our film.