What Have You Learnt About Technologies From the Process of Constructing This Product?

In my personal opinion the filming process of our opening sequence was the simplest thing when it came to the technology; the cameras are so easy to use and pretty straight forward. At first I thought it would have been one of the tricky things when trying to keep the camera steady and filming from all different angles, but lucky enough we had tripods in order to do the hard work for us. I think that the cameras have the biggest impact on how good an opening sequence can be, based mostly on the quality of the camera, not the filming itself. If I was to watch a film and it had bad camera quality I immediately decide not to watch it because it can be really difficult to really appreciate the detail that the director and producers have put in the time for people to notice.

The most difficult part of the process was using Final Cut Express. This is a program which had been designed for Apple which enables you to edit film and videos to an exceptional quality, that’s if you know how to use it. At first I found Final Cut hard to use but after a while we all got the hang of it as a group after help from teachers and some of our fellow peers. But once we knew what we were doing we were on our way to becoming experts. We used the basic cutting techniques in order to put our opening sequence together and once we had done that, we decided to play around with the effects and see which one had the most correlation toward our film genre which was horror. We then came to a conclusion that the thing which looked most eerie was a black and white effect making it look old and eerie. I think that this effect was appropriate because we also increased the contrast in order to make Jazmine stand out against the background as it was really dark and she looked as though she was slightly grey, this connotes that she is slowly having her life taken away, because once you are dead, your body looses colour. Once we had completed all the black and white effects and we inserted the credits from Live Type, we wanted to make the text look slightly uneasy when the title for our film came on, we used a ‘bad TV’ effect in order to make it shake and appear slightly distorted.
Blogger is an internet blogging page which enables people to write what they have been up to in order for other people to see it. We used this process in order to blog the work that we have been doing so that people are able to see how we got to our finished product. Blogger was a simple thing to use which was pretty straight forward as all you have to do is write in what it is you’ve been doing and post it. The awkward thing was trying to post our preliminary video because at first they would take approximately 4 hours to load and after that it said that it was unable to do so. We tried this 3 times again and it still wouldn’t upload so in the end we had to convert our video and then upload and it worked fine. Once we had finished our opening sequence, we wouldn’t have this trouble again trying to upload it.

By Louise Ashena