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During our project we used various different technologies , the main and most important piece of equipment was the camera we used. The camera was a Sony Handycam and belonged to the media studies department. When it came to the day of filming we experienced technical problems with the camera and ended up using Morgan's own personal camera which luckily was also a Sony Handycam. Morgan’s camera is HD so it gave us a good picture quality. Another important piece of equipment was the tripod, this enabled us to film steady extreme long shot, steady close up and a panning shot. The tripod we used was borrowed from school as we didn’t have our own.

As soon as we had finished filming we began the editing stages straight away. This involved using another important piece of technology, the Mac computers. We only had the choice of using the Black Mac computer due to the camera we used however this worked out better as we had experience on these computers therefore knew how to use them effectively. However we did experience some problems with the black Macs, this was due to the fact that there is only two of them compared to the six white Macs, they are also newer and therefore more students wanted to use them. The software we used to edit was ‘Imovie’ , this is a fast and effective programme which holds many effects such as transitions. The editing stages involved things such as dubbing out all of the sound because of the wind and then putting our own sound effects back in. we also had the chance to cut clips, speed clips up and slow them down.

When designing our production splash we had the option of using a programme called ‘GIMP’ this software allows you to design and edit pictures and logos. However after exploring our options we decided to design and draw our own production splash , this worked out well due to the fact both me (Charlotte) and Alice both do AS Art and design. After the production splash was designed we took a photograph with it using Alice Iphone, we then emailed this to Morgan's hotmail and uploaded it on to the Mac.

During the whole process of our project we used my camera. We used it for things such as finding our location, and blogging our recent activities such as items we had purchased, and the progress of our costumes.

Another form of technology used was Instagram, this page was used as an update feed of all of our photos. The photos included things such as us using the Macs.

One of the forms of technology we used was Twitter, we used this to say what we were doing and when, this was used mainly for our filming days.

Due to the fact we were not allowed to use copy right sounds or music we had to find a reliable website which offers copy right free

sound effects. We searched them on Google and came across a website called http://www.freesound.org/ . This offered us sounds that were easily downloadable and quick to find. We used sounds

such as ‘natural outdoors’ , this was used throughout the final piece. Another sound we used was ‘Drone’ this was used whenever the

Zombie character was seen or insinuated.