RESEARCH-
Before planning or even constructing our media product we made great use of the internet for our research about our chosen genre and film research. We researched the meaning and genre conventions included in a Psychological Thriller film to make sure we used exactly what was needed to portray this chosen genre in our final media product.
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also used websites YouTube and 4OD to watch film openings, trailers and TV series episodes from the programme Skins.When doing this we looked at the camera movement, sounds, lighting and editing that was used through the clips and took notes on what we found most effective and could possibly include in our opening sequence. We also watched movie DVDs and also looked at the typical genre conventions that we included in the production of the films.FILMING-
For filming we used a Samsung Video Camcorder SC-D365, and whilst filming saved our work onto a memory card instead of on to a tape. This is a more modern way of saving filming work a
nd come with many advantages. Using a memory card to save our work ensured that all of our film work was already saved as a media file, so we did not have to extract our filming from a tape and waste time. Also, the use of a memorycard ensured that no visual problems would occur like overlapping of filming or a mismatch of tracking. A memorycard ensured a more clearer picture of our filming and a better way of filming our media product.We also found whilst filming that a tripod was a very important piece of equipment to use. A tripod is something that you can attatch a video camera to, ensuring a clear stable picture and smooth movement when moving the camera at a range of different heights. We found this very useful as at points we did need stable camera shots very low to the ground and also at mid height.
Lighting was also important, as during our first stages of filming we tried using LED lights and torches in darkness but discovered this wasnt enough light source. This led to our decision of filming at a different time in the day; Twilight.
EDITING-
We also learnt about technology whilst editing our media product. We used Vegas Movie Maker Pro, an editing programme to finalise our media product and
add the certain effects, colour filters, overlays, etc that we felt would emphasise our chosen genre and the typical conventions included. We also experimented with speed whilst editing, using half speed (slow motion) and triple speed to add again the the mise-en-scene of our opening sequence and again emphasise the Psychological Thriller genre. Again whilst using Vegas Movie Maker Pro we learnt how to change certain camera shots to reverse and to also use the feature "Cookie Cutter" which helped us create the scene where our actress appears in 3 places on screen. Doing this was at first a challenge and took a while to learn exactly how to do, but when we had produced this shot, we again had a widen knowledge on how to use this piece of technology.Without technology, none of our media product would be possible as everything we used during making our media product has some basis of technology behind it. We used the internet also to find certain non-diagetic sounds that we wished to use in our opening sequence; i.e Heartbeat.
EVALUATION-
During the whole process of constructing and producing our media product we used the internet site Blogger to record all of the stages we undergoed whilst constructing and producing our opening sequence and also to answer our Evaluation questions. We also used the internet site Facebook to gain Audience Feedback and help understand who was our target audience.
Overall, i feel that without technologies none of our media product would of been able to be produced and feel that i have learnt a range of different techniques and knowledge on everything that we have used during the process of creating our opening sequence.
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