QUESTION 6- WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNT ABOUT NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES FROM THE

PROCESS OF CONSTRUCTING THIS PRODUCT?

When creating our opening sequence, we used a HD camera to ensure that all of our shots were clear. By keeping the shots looking clear makes the final version of the film look good which

increases the professionalism. Just by using the camera alone and no editing

software allowed us to zoom in and out of what we wanted to show when in record mode. Also, it allowed us to have things

in focus and out of focus in which we used a few times when recording.

We used a steady cam, when filming shots were the camera was moving, following Megan down a corridor or up some stairs. It ensured that the camera wasn’t too shaky and we

could focus on the action taking place in the scene. Finally we used a tripod. We used this in the walking scenes,

panning from one side of the street to the other. Also, when filming high

angles and low angles, we used the tri-pod to lower and increase the

height of the camera.

Steady cam

Pan (left to right)

When editing our sequence together, we used Adobe premiere. This is a quality programme enabling us to edit and make the scene look as

professional as possible. We also used Adobe After effects. This programme allowed us to create special effects, adding to the science fiction part of the genre. We added special effects

when creating the laser eyes towards the end of the opening scene we

created.

Adobe premiere Adobe after effects

ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES

WIX:We used WIX to plan and document every

step we took into creating our opening sequence. As we had never used WIX before we found it difficult setting up and presenting

our work. After practicing the controls however, we can now find our way around the programme very easily. It allowed us to show

everything we have done along the way through this project. We documented our

research we carried out to think of ideas of what we was going to include in the opening scene. We presented many things we have

done and it has been the best platform to do so. Everything is in one place and linked

together making it very easy to showcase the work we have done and our final draft of the

opening sequence.

Survey Monkey:When finding research for film and

relating it to our target audience, we created a survey on survey monkey and emailed to a variety of people around college. This proved very

helpful in our research as it meant we could put in more features that would attract the teen audience. We put all our findings on the blog and used the information from the results to make decisions which helped us create our

opening sequence.You tube:

We used you tube to upload the 3 videos we had created. It was an easy to use platform and allowed us to link

it to our blog very easily. The three videos we uploaded to you tube was the photo shoot we did for the DVD cover we created, our preliminary

task and our final draft of our opening sequence.