2. 6. What have you learntabout technologies fromthe process
ofconstructing theproduct?
3. Originally, before I had started this project I didnot know
much about the technologies from theprocess of constructing a
product. I had usedSony Vegas which is an application that can
beused to construct a media product, I used thispreviously to
create a trailer. I had also usedwindows movie maker previously in
order toconstruct a media product.We went through a whole process
beforeactually making our opening. We thought that wewould make a
thriller as that was a genre thathad stood out to all of our group
members. Wedid online research on people like Kyle Cooperand Saul
Bass in order to know more aboutopenings. As we were doing a
thriller we decidedto go into more depth and do some analysis
onopening sequences of thrillers.
4. We already had locations in our minds when it came to the
planning stage sowe went out and found different locations for our
opening. The mainlocations that you will see are: The woodland
area/forest Bedroom 1 Bedroom 2
5. We wanted quite realistic settings so we decided on
thesereal locations, we didnt want an over the top location, wejust
wanted it quite simplistic. The woods is quite typical fora
thriller but it also looked eerie and spooky so that wasgood for
our opening. We went into more depth on how toblog during this
planning stage and we also got more usedto camera equipment with
having to do location shots for alocation sheet that we did that
included health and safetyaspects of the location.
6. We then went onto the construction stage after this.I learnt
a lot more about new technologies in this stage. I learntmore about
working the camera and more effective techniques onhow to film so
that it looks good. This stage had enables us to openour horizons
to new editing techniques with the editing technologySong Vegas.
One of the editing techniques I had learnt was how toenhance
colours, which we did for the red on the clips. We did thisby using
the effect pure red screen and dragging it onto each ofthe clips.
Another effect we used was darker less contrast whichgave our clips
less contrast and made them look darker, which alsohelped the red
stand out more. Music was a bit of a problem duringthis process,
one problem was choosing the song but another wasthe fact that we
didnt want it to just cut out at the end as it wouldntsound good so
to get around this problem we made the song fadeout so it flowed
more. We needed transitions for the titles as wewanted them to be
different compared to the usual titles that justappear over the
clip so we used portals.
7. To evaluate our work we had a focus group and got feedback
in order to improve. Each individual told usthere views and some
gave us improvements. We were also able to get feedback from family
members whocould give us views and opinions and this was good as it
was more of a variety of
people.FeedbackPositivefeedbackImprovements