Evaluation Question 6

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1. The cameras we used were quite good, the film quality was good if the light in the room was good, for example if the room was bright the quality would be excellent but we found when we filmed in a room with the light off we could see the complete contrast in the shot. Also when filming we felt pressured to finish the shots outside before it got dark because we knew that the camera would not pick this up. However, this put a good sort of pressure on us, and made us face the true reality of what professional film makers have to think about when filming at certain times.

2. We edited on the Apple Mac with Imovie, although Imovie does not have as many transitions and tools as Final Cut, we found it very useful and professional. The programme is very easy to use and saves automatically so we had no issues of losing footage. We found a font we really liked also and the colour scheme had a wide range of colours. In addition, we wanted to stick to the conventions of the shots being at night so the opening would look more eerie and follow the horror conventions. We were unable to film in the dark because of the cameras as they were incapable of picking up the shot in the dark, so instead we adjusted the colour contrast and filter on Imovie, no one picked up on this editing so it came across professional.

3. If we had more time, we would had more time to create the opening we would have made the music ourselves with mixers and instruments such as a piano. However, we found brilliant music and sound effects on the Mac. We used three different types of drone to play over all of the clips for the length of the opening; this worked very well as there was a constant flow of music with more volume at points of tension. Also, we used sound effects off the Mac such as the heart beat and the ambient sound effect for the flash back. These both created certain emotions for each part of the opening. For example, the flash back can be interpreted as a dream therefore this calm ambient sound makes the audience realise the different tempo and therefore understand that this is what sets Katie’s jealousy off. Also the heart beat builds tension and connotes panic.

4. We uploaded our film to Youtube from the Mac which took the maximum of 5 minutes so the process was extremely quick. Youtube is fantastic for all different types of audiences to watch our film. Also we can allow anybody to comment on our film which is great for feedback. Also it is a good website to be able to compare the rough cut to the final as when you have one up you can click on the side bar and watch the other so it is easy to access both.

5. To display my work and the group work I used Blogger, Blogger is a website used to write about anything and post blogs for anyone to read. On it you can paste html to embed videos and also work from Scribd, you can also upload pictures quickly and easily and write text on the website. The only issue I had with Blogger is when uploading pictures and writing text the format pushes both together so if you write about a picture the text may end up next to the wrong picture. I worked around this issue by using a lot of spacing and sometimes numbering pictures then writing about them that way. In the future I will definitely used Blogger again, because I enjoy reading other people’s views and seeing their work and would like to produce more of my own on my favourite subjects.

6. Another free website I used was Scribd, Scribd is a website which you become a member of then can upload any document in the correct format so that you can then view it online. I usually used Scribd to upload my work from Microsoft Word so that you can just embed the document onto the blog and read the document that way. Scribd makes most documents look neater and better presented on the blog. However, sometimes when uploading documents with lots of images it pushes all the images together so the document is overlapped and unreadable, usually I just needed to PDF the document then upload it to stop it from doing this.

7. Although work cannot be displayed on social networking sites it is easy to talk to each other when both online. Facebook is great for this; also we can upload our film onto it and get people to comment and like the film so we know if it has reached our target audience and if we can improve it.

8. As a group I think we worked really well, we communicated well and told each other our ideas and took into consideration everyone’s ideas. Working together editing was a lot easier than I thought as we all sat around and decided what music worked well and what transitions we liked and it all fit together really well. We have all had equal amounts of work updates on the blog. Also the technologies used helped us communicate when not together and make our film look professional.