I created a PowerPoint presentation to display the 3 stages of producing our film opening; research, planning and post-production.

1. What have you learnt about
technologies from the process of
constructing this product?
-Technology-
Research, Planning, Production and post-production

2. Research

3. Google- google allowed us to gain an insight into our
planning ideas and give us an indication of what a teen
thriller looks like. We developed patience skills, as we
looked at many sites explaining the features of a teen
thriller. We achieved a wider knowledge of the teen thriller
genre and felt more comfortable about what we were
doing.
YouTube allowed us to look at different openings of
different teen thrillers and teen dramas. We developed
analytical skills, as we had to identify why the openings we
researched are what we are aspiring to and what features
are suitable for our own opening. We found that the
openings we were looking for and this helped us to pick out
what we wanted to see in our opening, eventually leading
to similarities between them.
Scribd helped me to upload my research onto my blog and
adopt an easy to use format, in which each slide comes
after the other as you scroll downwards. I used this by
uploading a PowerPoint from my computer and embedding
it from Scribd.

4. Blogger allowed us to upload all our content and analysation
questions, questionnaires, mind-maps and mood-boards.
We developed organisation skills, as we had to order our
blogs, and punctuality skills, as we had to upload projects
with strict deadlines. Blogger helped us to show the
progression of our ideas and the stages of our planning and
production.
Slideshare allowed us to upload our research to our blogs,
offering us an alternative format for our uploads and ideas.
This helped us to put our uploads on at the right time and
effectively.
We used Microsoft forms to create our questionnaires. This
was useful because it was easy to use… easier to use than
survey monkey. This helped us to effectively create a
questionnaire and design it, in accordance to how we
wanted it. Using Microsoft forms, instead of any other
survey creator, meant that we could send it easily in an
email to whoever we wanted. We felt more in control and it
saved us a lot of time.

5. Planning

6. We used Google in the planning stage to look at different
codes and conventions of a teen drama. We also used
Google to plan when we would film, what day and when.
This helped us to effectively film in light and dry
conditions, decreasing the time that we would have to
re-film scenes. This also helped us to develop
organisation skills, as we had to make sure that the
weather conditions would suit/ tie in with each show
that was filmed on a separate day; we also had a lot of
cast, so this would have been hard to organise days to re-
film. The progression of our filming was successful and
well-structured because of this.
We used Celtx for our script and storyboard, helping us
to clearly show the layout of our filming and character
dialogue. Celtx was easy to use, and meant that both me
and Tara could work on projects together and collaborate
on ideas. This helped us to plan quickly and effectively,
meaning that we could start to film earlier and give our
actors a chance to look over the script before filming.
The storyboard gave us a shot by shot lowdown on our
structure and meant that we could speed up filming.

7. ITunes helped us to discover the songs for our
soundtrack. It allowed us to effectively look for
any song we wanted to and add it straight onto
IMovie when we finished filming. This meant
that the music was crisp and not copyrighted,
as we bought them and put them onto a
device. This helped us to store the songs and
improve our organisation skills, as they were
stored in one place, so that we knew where
they were when we came to import them.
We used clip-grab (a form of clip-converter) to
import the paramount clip and the start of our
opening on iMovie. This allowed us to
effectively and quickly move the clip, creating
less work for ourselves, making sure that the
clip was of a good quality. Clip grab improved
our patience skills, as we had to create process
of uploading sections of our evaluation, which
took some extra time.

8. Production and Post-production

9. we used clip grab to show our institution introduction. we
used this technology to convert the clip from YouTube into a
usable file that allowed us to use the clip in our opening.
moreover, this software was extremely useful as we could
select multiple versions of paramount's intro; allowing us to
choose the one that fitted best with our opening. I think the
software was mostly useful in allowing the conversion of the
clips in an efficient and simple way. this technology was new
to me, and I found the actual software easy to use.
we used a Nikon d3300 to film our opening. this camera
allowed us to produce a high-quality image with clear sound,
making the editing stage run more smoothly. Plus, this model
is extremely portable and compact which allowed us to easily
take the equipment with us at the varying locations. the
camera itself has 1080p technology and 700 shot battery life:
making the technology very durable and reliable for our
production.

10. we used iTunes to add music to our
final artefact. The technology that
iTunes provides was extremely useful
and convenient to use. it was simple to
select our song in the programme and
open the media without any issues with
copyright. before adding the music, we
could preview our song over the
opening without paying: which allowed
us to select the optimum music,
especially in making our sequence
convergent.
we used a classic tripod to frame our
shots. it allowed us to stabilise the shot,
working in harmony with our
character's movements. this made our
sequence more professional and it also
improved the continuity, by creating
more successful 'pan' movements. we
found this easy to use, even though it
wasn't very compact or portable, we
worked together to ensure it was
incorporated in our equipment getting
to the location, on time.

11. we used iMovie to edit our opening. for
production, this software was extremely
vital in creating our final artefact because of
how simple it was to manipulate images.
we spent a long time trying to perfect the
sequence and the ability to cut the clips
with the precision editor was useful. this
way, we could edit all our clips to the
perfect place: optimising the continuity of
our opening. plus, we could add transitions
such as cross dissolve which allowed us to
create a more professional undertone by
using our institution (paramount)
introduction and then a cross dissolve for
the initial introduction. it was also
extremely useful to add titles over our
images: iMovie allowed us to use the
precision editor to place titles in the exact
place they were needed. as we used a voice
over, this technology enabled us to layer
the voiceover audio with the music in a
seamless way. plus, iMovie also helped us in
optimising the image itself. for certain
images, the lighting was slightly too dark for
our film so with the image editor tool we
could improve the lighting. admittedly,
iMovie did limit us from using entirely
convergent titles: instead we downloaded
'amity SC' from 'font squirrel' to make our
titles spot on for our convergent opening.