Evaluation 6- What Have You Learnt About Technologies From The Process Of Constructing This Product?

We have used YouTube to do research on the teen-angst genre with openings from various films in order to understand the genres different conventions. We achieved this understanding by analysing each film opening. Also, we have used YouTube to upload our product drafts.

We have used Blogger throughout our research and project planning in order to keep track of where we are up to on our title sequence. This meant recording all of our processes and actions. On blogger we usually insert screen grabs or links in order to publish.

We have used PowerPoint and Photoshop to layout and present our ideas for our blogs. This has mainly been done by screen grabbing and saving the documents and then posting them with descriptions/ annotations.

Microsoft Word was our main program for planning as we used it for making timetables for filming, storyboards and step outlines.

We have used Zoe's laptop to draw photos for the storyboard. Also, Zoe's phone and iMac was used to film our first draft, to communicate with our actors and to plan a filming schedule. On the iMac we used iMovie to edit all of our drafts. We started to use Premier Pro for our second draft but had difficulties so we found that using iMovie was simpler.

Imessage was used to communicate with our actors which mainly included arranging where to film and when to film.

We used my DSLR camera to take photos of the settings that are included in our sequence, we posted this on our blogs with a description on the locations. Also, we photographed the actors to clearly show on our blogs who the main characters are, within the posts on the characters we had explanations on their outfits and personalities.

The tripod was used to capture steady shots for the footage where the characters are walking and getting ready apart from when Jenna is going down the stairs and Bryony is putting on her heels.

As me and Zoe are the directors, producers, editors and camera women we have us in the photo below with my camera and tripod.

Here are some screen shots from mine and Zoe's conversation about filming.

These are all the photos and videos taken/ recorded on Zoe's phone.

 

 

 

All of the photos have been included in our blog posts.

To create the split screen in iMovie, Zoe placed the clip on the left on top of the on eon the right. Zoe then selected video overlay settings and clicked on split screen. She cropped each image to make sure both characters stayed in scene.

We added the title by dragging the transparent image into the place in the media that we wanted it to appear in and selected crop and crop to fit. This is so the whole image fit on the screen.

We then went back to video overlay settings and selected picture in picture. This enables us to drag the image around and place it where we would like it to appear on the screen.

To insert each transition Zoe dragged the transitions we wanted e.g. fade to black; in front or after the clip we want and then edited the length of the fade.