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

We have learnt a lot about the equipment we used to shoot and edit our opening film sequence. When we began filming we only had very limited experience, from our preliminary task, which did come in useful when we first started. We used a HD video camera and a tripod, which we loaned from college over the weekends we chose to film. When filming our sequence we found ourselves taking a lot of time to find the right angles and planning how the camera should be positioned to give the best experience to the viewer. For example showing a action or movement, of our characters from multiple angles. (Shown in previous post, our female character coming down the stairs.) We knew from common sense that we would have to film certain sequences a few times, incase when it came to editing, we didn't have enough material if there was a problem. We also learnt how much any sort of background noise has an effect on the footage your filming, as we found out on our second day of filming in Ormskirk, where the music in the background appeared louder than expected. Filming our own footage, gave us a real sense of how much planning and precautions must go into to real blockbuster movies, in the media industry.

To edit our footage, we used an Adobe programme called Premiere Pro. Which at first was a complicated and hard to get used too. We learnt how to drop our media into the programme and which formats everything should be set at so it would save correctly. We then went on to learn how to cut parts our media out and together. Which was a relatively easy process once you got the hang of it. Next we went onto more complicated things like, changing the audio around and making it louder, which meant we had to separate the frames of the film and the audio of the film. We then cut parts out we didn't want to hear and made certain parts louder so we could hear our actor’s conversation, better. Later on we added effects such as cross dissolve where they were necessary, for example between the two shots of her entering the bathroom and leaving it, to show the audience a sense of time passing. Next we went on to adding credits and learnt that we had a to add a new title and go to default still, which brought up a box where we could type out our credit and change the text format and colour. This could then be moved and dropped on top of the frame we wanted it to appear on. Once we had made them all we decided the use the effect of cross dissolve again to, make each one fade in and out. Lastly we added music to our film, which we ripped from a college CD and added to our film by importing it into the programme and dropping where we wanted. We have learnt a lot of skills while constructing our product and we are relatively proud of how our project turned out in the end.