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

 

Through constructing this product I have learnt a lot about using a digital video camera and editing software. The main thing about using a digital camera to get good quality footage is by keeping the camera steady. The best way of getting a good result was using a tripod as it will constantly be at that one height if doing a pan it wont make the footage look wobbly as no hand can really be 100% steady.

Also, when trying to get a range of shots e.g. zoom in/out, pans, extreme close up and long shots, the camera would be very still, there wouldn’t be any shaking or movement unless necessary and because of this the footage would be a very good quality.

The editing software that we used was Imovie, this helped us get the final result as it gave a variety of different transitions and the whole editing process was quite simple to use for a first production. On some clips we put different effects on to make it darker and show a difference in what was going on. These effects were mainly used on flashbacks to give it a feeling of ‘past time’ of a different mood to the rest of the shots. Throughout the planning stage of the thriller opening we used wordle to help with a range of words to summarise our ideas. To get footage from other thriller openings I got clips from YouTube so that the footage was a good quality and for the footage to be able to go onto the blogs. A way of getting feedback from audience we used social networking site – Facebook as many age groups use it and having a range of age groups that I am friends with on this site I could get feedback from them.