The document discusses the use of digital technology in filmmaking. It describes using Blogger to upload a one-minute film and taking feedback to improve a preliminary film. It also discusses researching film techniques like the rule of thirds. The document then covers using a Canon DSLR camera and 50mm macro lens to film openings, having battery issues. It finishes by discussing using Final Cut Pro for editing and YouTube for uploading and storing video footage.

1. Use of Digital
Technology

2. Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-
stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by
Google in 2003.
The first post that we uploaded on blogger was our one minute film which was out first piece of
filming that we have done for this unit. Our group decided to film a one minute film called
“Stalker” which was based of a TV Show which we recreated near the sixth form area.
After this post we took back feedback and improvements and were given the task to produce a Prelim. The prelim
was based of a drug exchange where we experimented with different angles and different camera methods and put
into work the 180 degree rule.
Then we also did some research on rule of thirds and how
this rule can effect how a film makes the audience feel. We
learned that The rule of thirds is a concept in video and
film production in which the frame is divided into nine
imaginary sections, as illustrated on the top photo. This
creates reference points which acts as guides for framing
the image. Points of interest should occur at 1/3 or 2/3 of
the way up (or across) the frame, rather than in the centre.
Like many of those rules of framing, this is not always
necessary but we need to know why we use before we
break it.
Pre-Production

3. BBFC Website- 2014 guidelines
This is an example of a thriller film that was
released a few months ago. As you can see from the
image the movie was predicted to be rated at an 18
due to a lot of sexualised threat and aggressive
language toward a women in one of the scenes. The
distributors wanted the film to be a 15 so that the
film could reach a wider audience and so that the
younger age group could also see the film. They
achieved the 15 rating during the finishing version
as they listened to the BBFC and took out some of
the scenes.
Pre-Production
This is a bar chart from a survey that the BBFC did in 2014 to see
what age groups go to the cinema in a weekly bases. As you can see
that the age group that goes to the cinema more on a weekly bases is
the 35-54 age group. This could be due to them having more free
time and having more money to spend on leisure.

4. This post reflects the work that we did in researching about film openings and what happens in
the film opening. Through this research I have learnt how audio and visuals are used to give us
information about the film and how the opening few scenes are used very effectively to show us
what and who is involved in the film. i have also noticed how audio is used to portray the genre of
the film. I investigated the opening to "Captain America" and this some of the audio and visual
that i noticed during the opening.
Another post I did on blogger reflected other thriller films and what conventions they used that
made them a good film. For example the use of climax was used throughout each film which was
successful in making the film more interesting and following the conventions of a thriller film.
Pre-Production

5. Cannon 650 DSLR Camera with a
50mm Macro Lens
• I found that using the cannon camera was much easier due to my prior
experience of using a DSLR camera and knowing how to set it up for
filming. I also found that the DSLR camera was a perfect choice for us
when it came to recording our film openings as it was easy to transport
around and it was pretty light weight.
• In addition I like the 50mm macro lens that came with the camera as it
was the perfect lens to go with our opening and the zooming function
that comes with this lens was perfect was some of our close up shoots
of the face
• However we had problems when it came to filming due to the battery
dying on us 3 times. This set us back few hours as we had to leave the
battery to charge for a bit before we could use the camera again.
• DSLR stand for a digital single-lens reflex camera (also called a digital
SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera combining the optics and the mechanisms of
a single-lens reflex camera with a digital imaging sensor, as opposed to
photographic film.
Production

6. Post-Production
Final Cut Pro is the name given to a series of non-linear video
editing software programs
During the post production process we used final cut pro to edit all our
clips and make it into our final product. Final Cut was the easiest solution
we could find due to some of having experience of using this product.
Final cut also allowed us to put special effects easily and the user interface
was easy to negative around,
Another useful website was YouTube which we utilised to upload our
footage onto. This website enabled us to put it onto the web so other have
access to our opening and also helped us to document any video/Audio
footage on as everything that was audio/video on our blogs would have
been uploaded onto YouTube first.