Evaluation 6 - Constructing our product

What we used to make our media piece:

 

Camera: We set an effect on this Camera to give it a blurry effect and set the scene to make it appear more scary so the audience don't get revealed too much information. This links to the genre of the film to give off the feeling that the victim can't see very well, to engage the audience in the film. This was obviously our most used object throughout the film making and preperation.




Tripod: We used the tripod in the scenes which we needed a steady hand and this reduced a lot of error in our film making. We didn't use the tripod in some scenes e.g. the one where i'm walking from behind the tree, this gave off the effect that it was from my point of view. We will be definitely using this item next year as it helped us greatly to keep the camera shot still and very good shots from various heights and angles.



Iphone voice recorder app: This was an app on Emma's phone, and it seemed to be very good and extremely useful when we had to put Emma's speech in and also a few other scenes like the one at the end of the 2 minutes when Emma screams. This was used purely for Dialogue and it had a very clear tone too.

 

Piano: We used the piano in some scenes of tension and purely where the killer was in the camera view, this was to give the impression off to the audience that when they hear that specific noise then the killer was around.



Laptop: We used this mainly to pull all the pieces together, this included putting all the sound, editing, scenes, camera shots and other information into one. It took rougly 5 hours to edit our piece and we edited it from home until we were eventually happy with it.



Windows Movie Maker: This was to edit our piece because it is specifically designed to make films, so it really came in handy when putting all our scenes together and manufacturing the whole 2 minutes of the film. All we had to do was upload the scenes onto the computer and movie maker pretty much did everything else, all we needed to do was vary the duration of the scene, and where it went.



Photoshop: We used this to mainly edit and create our title image. We didn't know too much about this but we toggled with it for a while over our title as we weren't exactly sure on what we wanted the title style to be.

From using all of these types of equipment and software, I have learnt many things. Which ones are useful and which ones are a bit of a waste of time. And definitely which ones i'm going to be using next year as this would be great to use for the trailer in my A2. The main software i'm planning on using are movie maker to put it all together, tripod, possibly a different camera as the picture quality wasn't too great and also photoshop to add more spectacular effects to our final piece.


We used YouTube in our filming to upload recent updates on our film and this is where we put all of our film together. This was uploaded onto Bryony's account and we put all of our progress and ideas on there.


A good film needs to use technology in order to make it successful, technology needs to be used frequently to add advanced aspects to the film. There are certain areas you'll need to cover and things  you'll need to consider when making a film to the best of you're ability. Technology plays a big role in marketing the product, viral distribution and production of the film and is key to making the film get publicity and becoming successful.