1. Task 6
What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?

2. Cross Dissolve
We used cross dissolve to smooth edits in
order to make them appear to run through at a
good pace.

3. Using Garage Band For Sound
Originally we used only digetic sound
to emphasis the feeling of isolation. We
wanted to only use natural sounds as
they are more ecologically valid (true to
life). However, it is important to
manipulate sound to also create the
suspense of isolation. We used garage
band to create our non-digetic sound.
By using garage band it allowed me to layer the different sound clips to finally
get the sound I was looking for. Not only did we test out different sound clips
on garage band but, we edited the volume of the digetic sound into the non-
digetic (created in Garage Band) to make sure it flowed smoothly together.

4. Colour Correction
When we showed the group our
thriller opening, one improvement
noticed was that when Ali woke up it
appeared to be still night time even
though we wanted it to be clear that
it was morning as she was getting
ready for school.
A way in which we made it appear as though it was the morning (even though
we filmed in the evening) was through the use of colour correction. Colour
correction allows you to select from a wide range of colours then enhance your
selected colour into your film sequence.

5. Using the video filter: Vignette
In the woods scene of our opening
sequence we wanted it to be clear to the
audience that this scene was not in
reality. One way in which we did this was
by using vignette to make it appear misty
along the boarder of the film sequence.
This video filter effect improved the quality of the film sequence. Even though it
was not an exaggerated effect, it made the audience feel as though the scene
was either supernatural or a dream.

6. Using Dafont
When editing in our credits we wanted to use a creative
font and so www.dafont.com was the best website for
that. We selected two different fonts; one for the name
of our thriller, and the other for our group’s individual
names.
This is the font used for our thriller name, The
Thicket. We chose this font as it is in a handwriting
style font. This creates an enigma, making the
audience question who’s writing is being used.
This font is also in the handwriting style. By using two
different styles of the handwriting font, it implies that it
was written by two possible witnesses.