Q6 What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

HOW DID YOU USE THE BLOG TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY?

We used the blog in order to keep all of our work together and track our group and individual progress from the start to end of this media project. We all had the ability to post onto the blog, and we used it to show things such as our editing progress, call sheets and risk assessments for shoots, research tasks and feedback from exhibiting our product at different stages of production. We also used other programmes, such as Survey Monkey for audience research, Prezi in order to design our pitch and YouTube in order to post various videos related to the production of our film.

We were all authors of the blog allowing us to all post content.

HOW DID YOU ACTUALLY FILM YOUR WORK?

The equipment we used for filming our product was; A Nikon D5200 DSLR, A tripod and the track for one of our shoots. We did face some issues/limitations whilst filming. We filmed in an external location, it was very muddy so this created a slip hazard so we had to take care whilst filming. We could also not film when it rained as this would affect continuity and could damage equipment. We also wanted to film in evening light, not broad daylight, but not night-time and in the winter this was a very short period of time which limited how much filming we could do in one shoot. For some of the shots, we had to colour grade them using elements in order to keep continuity.

HOW DID YOU EDIT YOUR PIECE? Our editing software was Adobe Premier elements. This contains many tools and features which we used to help make our piece as professional as possible.

We used the cutting tool to cut down our raw footage to make the product the desirable length. We also used this to create the flickering affect between two parallel lines of action.

Some of the effects we used were created in Adobe after effects, such as the dark and light contrasting lighting in the first shot of the girls feet.

We used the sound mixer to adjust our sound to the appropriate level, such as the White noise as we wanted it to have an effect but we didn’t want it too loud.

For our titles, we created them in Premier and selected the font we liked the most from the fonts available. We also used the ‘Fade’ tool as we thought it made the titles more dramatic.

We added in sound effects from ‘FreeSound.org’ such as the crows, as we believe they create a lot of affect and help to build up tension.

We used a wide variety of sound clips and