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.
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.
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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.
13. Shot-reverse-shot technique learnt from preliminary task.During the filming of the interview and the shot-reverse-shot section of our preliminary, we obviously also had to make sure to obey the 180 degree rule, to make sure the conversation and the characters positions made sense on screen.
14. "How does your media product represent particular social groups?" The top photo shown here is a still of the character "Susie Salmon" from the film 'The Lovely Bones. The character is fourteen years old. Beneath is a still of one of the two protagonists in my film, Holly Banks who is a ten year old girl. Both characters are of a young age, and both stories include a murder at the beginning of the film, the main plots both focussing on finding the guilty murderer after the deaths of the girls. The main similarity between these two characters would have to be innocence, as the girls were murdered through no fault of their own - for example, the murders weren't in any way of self defence on the murderers part. A main difference would be the age, though the characters only have four years between them, teenagers can sometimes grow up quite rapidly around this age group, where-as at ten years old - the girls in my film are still children rather than teenagers or young adults as the girl in 'The Lovely Bones' could be described. Both play victims in the films, relating back to the innocent roles they're playing. In relation to this, the costumes that Saoirise Ronan wears throughout the film 'The Lovely Bones' emphasise her youth. She wears bright, colourful and not particularly fitted clothes. Also her hair has a stereotypical youthful appearance, with it being blonde and wavy - this appearance gives connotations of fairy tales, relating to innocence. The clothes also show her body as a fourteen year old should be, she doesn't look particularly confident in her body yet either. In our film we attempted to get our cast to fit the age group of ten years old, however we thought it would be too difficult to have actual ten year olds acting, as they may have been harder to tell what to do, and asking permission from parents etc. would have taken up too much filming time. Instead we originally decided to get shorter actresses of our age, but due to the difficulties with timing and casting, we didn't manage to film with these first choices. Though my partner and I attempted to dress in a younger way - in baggy jumpers and Ugg boots, it's still evident that we're too tall to be ten year olds and neither of us has the body of a ten year old, though I did try to add colour to make the outfit I was wearing look younger, by wearing green trousers.
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16. As is shown on this clip and the one below, when writing over clips when using Windows Movie Maker, it's only possible to have it in the middle or to one corner in quite large writing. This means that I didn't manage to put credits in my opening sequence as they took up the whole screen and looked unprofessional. This is an extremely atypical aspect in film openings.
17. The costume in this shot seems typical in comparison to conventions of other real media products. Although not quite visible in the shots - as it was difficult to get both the actor's full head and shoulders in the whole shot whilst our camera still managed to pick up the sound of his voice - the actor is wearing a real policeman's jumper. This is implied in the shop however by the shoulder pads, also the shirt collar seen beneath adds to his image of professionalism and authority.
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19. In most films, this logo screen is often animated. However, I couldn't find an appropriate programme to give mine effect.
20. This shot is juxtaposed to the last from the match-on-action sequence at the beginning of our film opening. The last shot is an establishing shot of a happy "safe" town, where-as this shot almost shows the "reality" of the town, (that it isn't safe as the girls will be murdered here) as this alley seems shadowed compared to the previous shot. I think this use of lighting and mise-en-scene is typical to perhaps add interest to the girls walking. We also tried to show the girls innocence here, by showing us skipping, as is shown in the shot. This could also be juxtaposed to the mise-en-scene of the shot.