Question 6 - Anam Nasir

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

We used a range of online and computer programs:

Youtube: to upload our two preliminary tasks, our rough cut and final cut.

Blogger: to write down the process of making our thriller film opening

iMovie: we used this to import and edit our film. We also edited sound through this software, as this was easier than using Garage band.

Photoshop: to edit our titles, we changed the colour of our scanned drawings and added the titles through photoshop and saved the images as JPEG.

iTunes: we used this to import our music to be able to use it in iMovie.

Using this function on iMovie we were able to edit the audio. We used this in the flashback scene. We applied the Reverb technique.



Here we can see the iMovie window; we were able to drag clips into the timeline to easily edit and move around clips. We were alos able to split videos and crop them easily with the iMovie tools.
We also used other technical equipment:

Camera: we used a Sony HDV Handycam, this was easy to use and record our film to.

However when recording our preliminary task we couldn’t function the focus functions, therefore our shots in the preliminary task were out of focus.

Using the camera on the tripod was much easier than a handheld camera; it was a lot steadier. We also used tracks for our tracking shot, this was difficult and time consuming as we couldn’t get the shot to be the same speed throughout.

Scanner: we used the scanner to scan our hand drawn images; this was simple to do but time consuming. In our test scan we have explained our difficulties. (Click here to see our test scan shots)