question 6

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

After filming our media video we have learnt a great deal from using the equipment and experimenting its full potential to editing our footage together effectively. We also learnt a lot form filming our preliminary task, we were able to spend a few lessons learning and exploring the equipment and its limits, we also explored different shot types and angles, carefully taking into consideration the framing and composition.

During filming our thriller we used many different camera angles, we were lucky enough to use our own camera which produced very high quality footage for us to work with. This allowed our opening to be very detailed. The positioning of our camera had to clearly show the audience that the one visible

character was vulnerable or being intimidated. We achieved this by using long shots to introduce the victim this helped to create a sense that the victim was being followed or watched. We also used intimidating high angled shots looking down on the victim to make him appear smaller and weak. When we came to edit together our film we used quite quick changes between shots to emphasise the speed of the attack and “death”. We chose not to include the killers face in the shots to create a sense of mystery.

When we came to edit our footage together we played around with a few different sequences. We didn’t want to display the footage as we had filmed it so we shuffled the original footage around combining the running and the car scenes. By the time we had reshot our thriller we decided that we only wanted to include the car scene so we mixed the titles in with the footage of the car scene and the strangulation.

To edit our film we used software called iMovie. This software is specially designed for editing films. We used it to put together all the footage and music we had collected and sourced. To create our ident we overlapped a visual of our production name in a space themed background with the sound of a canned drink being opened. We made the ident in iMove as well as iMovie was the main editing software for our feature.  We used the image of space to illustrate that we want our productions to be original, “out of this world”, we also used the non-diegetic sound for a similar reason. The sound is of a drinks can being opened, this emphasises our new ideas being opened in our films. The name of our production team has been inspired by our comical use of a banana instead of a gun in our preliminary task.