1. How did you use media technologies
in the construction and research,
planning and evaluation stages?

2. Without the use of technologies…
• My project would simply not have been
possible. Technologies have allowed our group
to be very creative.
• We have used a range of open source
software's as well as digital equipment.
• Technologies have allowed us to create
broadcast quality texts.

3. While planning and researching, here are some
of the programs we’ve used for our short film

4. Blogger
• Using Blogger has been essential for updating progress for our
film. I’ve made sure that I blog every step, from writing the
script up to post production in the editing suite. I’ve also
included our shooting schedule, storyboard and the weekends
we have been shooting. Blogger has been extremely useful in
order to keep up to date and see how far we’ve come since
the beginning of making our short film.

5. • Researching short films that have a similar genre and story have
given us a much clearer idea about how we want our story and
characters to be constructed. This was a very reliable piece of
technology to use because of the comments received on their short
films. I noticed a lot of positive and negative feedback mostly on
their beginning and endings. When I started writing the script I
made sure that I took these criticisms and made sure not to put
them in our film. What I learnt a lot from YouTube was the
audience’ feedback to how they felt towards characters. We wanted
to make sure that our central character (Blake) was a character that
the audience cared and sympathised towards.

6. Equipment
Our equipment has been the most important factor towards the
visuals, sound and lighting of our film. We used the Canon 600D which
gives us 1080p video at 24fps (frames per second). We also used a
50mm fixed prime lens with a 1.8 aperture. This gives the film a
cinematic look that we wanted to achieve so that we give justice to the
film.
As we had quite a few scenes with dialog in our film we wanted clean
crisp sound. We used the zoom video recorder and a RODE boom
microphone. We also wanted to be able to rough edit the clips without
having to put all of the audio in first, so we used a RODE video
microphone on camera for added quality in the rough cut.

7. More Equipment
• A very important factor in our film was to have a naturalistic look,
this was created by the lights that we used. We used two Zyon Soft
Boxes that we used to add light into the shot, and we also used
diffusers on the lights to be able to create a soft feel. Using a spider
steady cam has been a major part of our film showing our central
characters emotions. Tracking shots are a trademark in our film,
investing in a steady cam has been a brilliant decision. A standard
tripod has also come in handy for many close ups that we’ve used.

8. Editing
• To edit our film we’re using Premier Pro. This is an advanced
piece of editing and assembly program. Once we had finished
our shoots, we would bring all of our sounds and video
footage into the edit suite and “batch digitise”, we would then
begin to place the scenes footage into the breakdown of the
scenes without worrying about continuity or match on action.
Once this was done for all of the remaining scenes we began
the rough edit. Finally after the sound edit we colour
corrected all of the clips and grade them and export the final
video.