The document discusses the filmmaker's experience using various technologies to create their film project. They found that their inexpensive camcorder had poor sound quality during filming. They used Windows Movie Maker and GarageBand for editing and adding music. They also discuss the distribution of the film, its target audience, and what they learned progressing from their preliminary task to the full film product.

1. Evaluation.

2. "What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this film?" We bought this camcorder to film this project. As it wasn't so expensive, we learnt that during filming the sound quality was quite difficult when attempting to achieve a high quality. For example, we didn't manage to film the interview or the newsreading outside when it was quite windy as the wind sound drowned out the voices. However, I think this problem could occur in lots of cameras. We also found that the image quality looked good on the camera's screen, however, when it was blown up on the computer screen it looked quite fuzzy and there were some shadowing issues, for example in the first shot of the actresses walking out of the door, there was a minor glitch.

3. This is the computer I did the final editing on Windows Movie Maker on. As this is a simple computer and I'm used to using it at home for various other reasons, it was simple to use and made the whole editing task faster and simpler.

4. I used GarageBand to make the music of the film. Once I had found out how to use it properly, the actual creation of the tracks and burning them onto a disc to move them to a different computer was easy. (Post on using GarageBand written on the 18/10/10)

5. We had to use a tripod for all of the shots to keep the shot steady, especially with the lack of people willing to act in our film, and me and my partner ended up having to act the two main characters ourselves. Therefore neither of us were able to be behind the camera to keep it steady to film the shots with the two protagonists in.

6. We begun editing the film on iMovie using one of these Apple Mac's supplied at school. However, due to lack of time and organisation in lessons I decided to do my editing on my home computer - another reason for switching from using iMovie to Windows Movie Maker. However, I did use this for the GarageBand and found it comfortable and easy to use, for example exporting my music from GarageBand onto a CD was very easy. Technologies continued: Editing programmes used. Finally, I decided to use Windows Movie Maker as I have used this programme before so I knew it was reliable and easy to use. It's not as much of a professional programme as iMovie, for example I couldn't work out how to have "Starring..." over my shots without it being in large font right in the middle of the screen, covering up the image. Also the actual title of the film didn't turn out looking particularly professional as there was a limited range of effects. However, I did learn how to overlap music when I was combining the two tracks I created on GarageBand, to make them flow together more easily and also found an adequate effect for the bathroom scene.

7. As my posts written on making the actual film already says, we begun the editing on iMovie. (Post already written on getting used to using it on 12/10/10). Once I had used iMovie for the first time and been shown how to use the different effects possible, I found it quite simple to use, other than remembering how to achieve these different affects. The main problem I found when beginning to create my film on the iMovie software was not finding the right kind of effect for the bathroom scene.

8. I downloaded this programme VideoPad after not being able to find the correct effect for my bathroom scene. After finding the perfect one on this programme I attempted to put my filming onto the storyboard, only for the programme to crash and automatically shut down after uploading. (Post already on blog about this programme written on 15/2/11)"What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?" I think a film company such as Working Title would be best to distribute my film. The idea for my film isn't supposed to be created as a big Hollywood type film, and as it's based on a true story in Britain, I think a large British institute would be the best for this job. Also as it's based on a true story, it wouldn't need mass marketing as people in the UK would already have read about the story when it happened back in 2002, so would be able to know from the title whether they were intrigued to see the film or not. Working Title films don't generally have such large budgets as some of the larger US companies, so I think that would be another reason for it being appropriate for my film as CGI effects would be unnecessary, along with other things to take into account when thinking about pricing, such as location of filming. However, Working Title is marketed by Universal so it could be made to appeal to an American audience, this would just take more distribution of information about the film as the American audience would be less likely to be able to relate to the story simply from the title "Holly & Jessica".

9. "Who would be the audience for your media product?"This is the audience profile I made earlier during the creation of this film opening:This profile shows me that this particular member of our target audience enjoys watching dramas, including British dramas such as 'Misfits' and 'Skins'. Though our complete film wouldn't have one of the main aspects of humour in the TV programmes this person enjoys, it would probably come under the genre of drama which is listed as one of his favourite genres. As 'Misfits' and the US drama 'Desperate Housewives' also mentioned on this profile are both quite dark dramas, I think my film would interest this member of our target audience as subject for the film created is quite dark."Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to full product?" When we created the storyboard for this film, after doing the continuity editing task, we attempted to get the following editing/camera techniques into our film from learning them from filming and editing the preliminary: 180 degree rule

10. match on action

11. shot/reverse/shot Our original match on action shot was going to be the girls walking out of their front door in the first shot. This idea came from this technique when filming our continuity task: This shows the filming from either side of the door as the actress walks through in the preliminary.However, due to having to convey realism in the film, we took this shot out, as the outside of the house we were walking out of didn't fit with the setting of the next shot of the actresses walking along the street. To make up for removing the match on action from the first shots, we decided to add into the part where the actresses are walking along.The arrow on the first shot here shows where the girls are headed, and on the second shows where the girls would come from in the last shot, to create a continuous walking shot.