Q6. What have you learnt about technologies from the process of constructing this product?

We decided that it would be better to look around the Red Hall before we started filming. I went around with Beth and Mia, to take photos of different angles, rooms, outside shots and objects located inside and outside. By having these photos it enabled us to plan our thriller better, it helped to plan the shot list, prop list and the actual storyline to the opening.

These are the shots that I took when visiting the Red Hall.

 

These are only a small number of pictures that I took to help us. There is a picture of the main room we used, by having this picture we was able to decided how we would move the objects out of the way and where they would go. We also was able to plan how we was going to hide objects that we couldn’t move away.

I have learnt a lot from this project as a whole, I haven’t ever done a big media-filming project like this, so I was quite new to it all.

I have developed as a filmmaker, by my camera skills the most from this project; I filmed most of the clips for our thriller opening, I had to get different angles, frames, height and a different range of shots. By doing all of these different elements of camera work, I was able to develop and give our opening a good range of shots.

I haven’t really ever done any editing on iMovie before so when we was adding things and taking things out, I was constantly learning and finding out new things, this was the same with Beth and Mia. We was all learning and making errors together.

One of the main things I learnt when we were in the editing process was how to put sound onto the opening.

We had to look for this button on the side of iMovie. 

When we pressed the ‘Sound Effects’ button this menu popped up in the left hand side corner of the screen. Scrolling down this menu you will be able to pick any iMovie sound effect that iMovie have stored onto the programme.

 If you have a sound effect on your iTunes that you want to put onto your opening, then you have to press the iTunes button that is above from the sound effects button.

This menu pops up in the left hand side of the screen. You can scroll down the menu and drag any of your music that is in that section to your project.