To make our final media assignment, we used different technologies and kit to make our film successful. Here is a list of what we used:
- Camera and Tape- These two were the most important as we used this to film the footage for our final product.
- Tripod - This was used to steady each shot and to film low and high angle shots.
- Camera and Tripod bags - These were to carry all the equipment in, and to make sure it was all kept safe.
- Adobe - This was the software that we uploaded our footage onto and what we used to complete our final film.
- Audio LGFL (free non - copyright music) - This is where we found our music for our final product.
- Youtube - This is where we found our Universal Studies and the Working Titlte Logos.
- Blogger - This is what we have used to write out our research, planning, film diaries and evaluation.
- Horror DVD's - My group and I watched and evaluated Horror films to show we had researched into our film genre before we made our film, which gave us tips as to what kind of thing we were looking to produce.
- By using a video camera we learnt how to use it and how using a tripod can make the video look a lot more effective. We learnt this from attempting to film by holding the camera, but obvioulsy the footage looked all jolty so we decided to include the tripod, and from then on the footage looked a lot more effective and realistic.
- By using Adobe Premier as our editing software, it made the footage look affective as there were many transitions and different affects that were available to use. We used a dissolve transition between each shot , which made the film run smoothly instead of each shot cutting from one to the other. Adobe Premier has many effects that are available to use, my group and I chose to use the 'old film' effect as this created a sinister and disturbing feel, which is what we were hoping to achieve. Adobe Premier is also very useful as the audio can be edited easily and separately from the actual audio itself, this was useful throughout our film as we wanted to fade in/fade out parts of our audio throughout our film for example, my group and I lowered the audio at some points so you could hear individul aspects such as, the scream at the end and the killers footsteps as they are walking towards the house.
- I have learnt from using Adobe Premier,that the editing is a very long and hard process, the software at first can be very complicated to use as we struggled to add sounds and credit titles. I have now learnt how to film footage and then edit it onto Adobe, and then add transitions and titles to make an opening sequence.
- For showing our film and the progress of it we have used Youtube and Blogger. We used Youtube because it is a useful software for showing our film as it is an easy website to access and use, and easily uploads files. We had a couple of issues that we had at first for example, we had to convert our film to an MPEG which took quite a long time, before putting it onto Youtube so it would upload succesfully, this was solved quickly where we could then upload straight onto Youtube. Another benefit of using Youtube is the fact that we can easily show the film to other people such as family and friends and are able to get their feedback on our film through the use of comments.
- We also used Blogger for our research and planning as it showed the progress of making our opening film, we did this by including animatics, photographs, and explaining any idea changes etc. I have found that Blogger is an effective and very handy website as it is able to show all of the aspects easily. Overall, I have learnt many different techniques to use when constructing, researching and planning a film.
Emma with the equipment!! 
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