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

2. Through-out both the filming and editing process
for our thriller opening of ‘The Thicket’ I have
learnt a lot about the different technologies
which I have been using.
In order to edit our film we used Final Cut, I had
used this program before to edit previous
media pieces but from this task I have learnt a
lot more about the functions which can be
used within the program in order to create a
better film.

3. Filters
When we watched our film back, we noticed that during the
bedroom scene the lighting did not look right for the time
of day which we wanted to portray it to be. This affected
the atmosphere significantly and made it look a lot less
realistic. We wanted the audience to know that it was early
in the morning, however, the lighting suggested that it was
in the evening.

4. This is when we were introduced to filters. By using filters we
were able to use the ‘colour correction’ tool in order to
change the overall colour of the scene. By doing this we
were able to create a more ‘fresh’ light which would
normally be associated with the morning. This made it
appear much more realistic and stopped any further
confusion for the audience.

5. Titles
I had imported titles into a film on Final Cut before, however I
had not known how to import a font. After looking at different
font styles on www.dafont.com, we had come across some
really good ideas. We wanted the font for our titles to be
significant towards the narrative of our film. We found a font
which fit the criteria perfectly. This particular font was chosen
as the ‘school-like’ image it gave off helped with the
characterisation of the girl who featured in our opening.
We were able to download this font and import it into our film,
something which I had not know you could do before. In
order to do this we clicked ‘download’ on the website and
saved it to the computer. We then imported it into Final Cut
and were able to successfully use it in our film opening.

6. In order to make the titles fit in with our opening we made it so
that they would appear on-screen in time with the soundtrack
which we had added.
We added a ‘type-writer’ effect
to make it appear as though
they were being typed onto the
screen, complimenting the
‘school-style’.

7. Sound
In order to create a soundtrack for effect we used the program ‘Garage
Band’. This enabled us to create a soundtrack using many different
instruments so that it would fit in with the film clip which we wanted it to
complement.
At the bottom of the screen there are
many different tracks to choose from.
Once we had chosen which track we
wanted to include, we were able to
select it and drag it to the timeline at the
top. I learnt that not only were we able
to customise the timing of the
soundtrack, but we were able to build up
many different layers in order to built up
a unique one to fit in best with our film

8. I also learnt how to change the volume of
certain tracks so that certain tracks could
be heard over the other, or so that the
whole soundtrack could be more quiet so
that the main focus can remain on the
diegetic sound, in our case, the spade.