Film Opening = Evaluation Activity 6

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

The Camera
The camera we used to film our film opening was a Nikon D3200. One main thing I learned about using this camera is that for a steady shot you will need to use a tripod. Millie and I couldn't gain access to one of these, so all of our shots were filmed handheld. Despite this giving a great effect to the shot as it makes the audience feel that they are 'the camera' or in the film. I believe there are some shots in our film that could've benefited from being filmed with a tripod, as there would have been a contrast between the shot types.

IMovie

Here is a photo of Millie and I using the Apple Mac for editing. IMovie is an film editing programme which comes on the Apple Mac computers. We used this software as it was provided for us at school. I learnt so many different editing techniques from using this software. One main skill I learnt was editing the sound on our individual clips, both diegetic and non-diegetic. We did this with the wind in one of our clips by either completing removing the background noise in the clips or adjusting the volume of the sounds we wanted to be ore noticeable. Another very important skill I learnt was trimming shots, this helped with continuity editing very much so. One example of this is when we did a shot reverse shot of Christa walking back into the church. We had to really focus on trimming these clips so they matched exactly in order to keep the shots flowing together.

The Apple Mac

Millie and I used an Apple Mac download all of our clips from our camera and edit them all as well. I also used the mac to conduct all of my research on studio logos, potential production companies and other thriller/horror films. We also used the mac to access YouTube which is where we uploaded our preliminary task and our complete film opening. Using YouTube also meant we could easily put a link onto our blogs so readers could easily access and watch them. Before studying media I had little experience with Apple Mac's so it took a while to get used to the differences between a mac and a windows pc. Despite this, I managed to get a hang of it quite quickly and use it to edit, research and produce my final film.