Evaluation - 6

What have you learnt about technologies from the process of

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Panasonic Cameras HD

To create our film opening, we used Panasonic HD cameras to record. The camera allowed us to take videos and pictures on the camera and has a clear quality picture of the shots recorded. the camera we used came with a tripod which was helpful as it balanced the camera so there wasn’t any unneeded movement and the could be adjusted to any height or angle needed to film. For example, we used various shots when we filmed, one of which was point of view shots. We filmed these shots because we thought we should use a variety of shots to make our thriller film more interesting to watch. We adjusted the camera to my height sitting down and at an angle that looked like it was from my view in order to create the shot. When my group and I were filming the thriller opening, we were thankful that the camera had the stand as some of the shots would have looked unprofessional.

Final Cut Pro – Editing SoftwareWhen editing our thriller opening we used Final Cut Pro software. This piece of software was ideal as it allowed us to add sounds, transitions and effects to our film in order to make it look more professional and to make sure the film made sense with the camera shots in the right place. Also we used this software as it was easier to cut and paste scenes and put them together. It was quite easy to put transitions and effects on to our film as you only needed to choose one and drag it with the mouse to the place where you want the transition to be. Adding sounds were also easy to add to the film opening and easy to put them in the right place. Additionally, it was easy to cut the sounds to the size or length you want them to be and it was easy to move them around because all you had to do was drag the sound with the mouse.

Furthermore, there are many things you can do to the scene you place on the software, such as making them look like close ups, cropping irrelevant parts of an image out or making the scenes seem brighter or darker, depending on how you want the scene to look.

The next slide shows some of the effects my group and I used in the film opening:

SOME OF THE EFFECTS WE USED

When we edited the scenes of the woman at the beginning of the film, we used the ‘dream’ and ‘fun house’ effects to make the woman look distorted and create mystery to the woman’s face.

When we filmed the flashback’s of the girl, we used the ‘aged film’ and ‘memory’ effects to help the audience understand that these shots are flashback’s and to help them understand that the girl is the same person as the woman, just before she was kidnapped.

SOME OF THE SOUNDS USEDWhen we edited our film, we used various sound to make the film seem more thrilling to watch and to help the audience understand what the thriller is about. We added a voice recording of the mother of the girl calling the police when the girl went missing. We added this to help make the audience understand the girl went missing and to create a thrilling effect to the opening as it helps illustrate the effect of what happened when she went missing. To add more of an effect to the police call from the mother, we added a siren noise to help the audience understand that once the mother had called the police, the police then went looking for the girl. This helped emphasise what happened when the girl went missing. In addition, we added a voice recording of a news report that helped emphasise more that the girl went missing.

We added other sounds to our film opening such as the jewellery box sound to make a chilling effect and to show the audience the jewellery box is symbolic in the film and shows that the girl is the same person as the woman, but in a flashback of before she was kidnapped.

To add better sounds of movements in the thriller opening, we added a dropping noise of something hitting the floor to create a sound that fitted the make-up dropping on the floor and we added a door squeaking open to create a unsettling effect that the door is opening and we added a door slamming shut sound to create one last piece of suspense at the end of the thriller opening.

The next slide shows some of the print screens of the sounds we added to our film opening:

SOME OF THE SOUNDS WE USED