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

Danny McGinn

Cam

eras

During pre-production a small

Panasonic HDCH580 handheld

camera was chosen as we felt

that it would be much more

efficient to use if we were

wanting some scenes within

our film to be shot specifically

to look like they were handheld. We also used this

camera for the filming of our

preliminary exercise. Although,

the use of a more advanced

camera could have produced a

better quality final product.

Final

Cut

Exp

ress

From the use of this editing

software, I have been able to

effectively create a final product

that I am happy with. I have also

been able to construct it in such a

way that allowed us to control the

pace of the film. Originally the shots

were all of natural lighting but with

the help of ‘Final Cut Express’ a filter

was added to make the scenes in

the woods seem much more eerie.

This was done as the setting limited

us with the times in which we could

film. I also learnt how to cut shots

and apply transitions in order to

improve the continuity of the

project.

Blog

ger

‘Google’s Blogger’ was a useful

way of keeping track of our

project throughout its production.

It allowed us to post any research

that was undertaken during

preproduction, make changes

during production and then later

evaluate what we had done

during post production. It was

also a good way of keeping track

of what was yet to be done and is

a visual way of presenting the

progress our project had made

from pre-production to the final

product.

Feed

back

Me

thod

s

In order to gain constructive

criticism a number of different

methods were undertaken in order

to gain feedback. Both ‘Google

Questionnaires’ and social

networks such as ‘Facebook’ were

used as we felt that these were the

most appropriate feedback

methods to use for our targeted

audience. We also used ‘Facebook’

to advertise our project and the

questionnaire associated with it.

Had we used a wider range of

social networks, I feel that we could

have reached a wider audience and

therefor received better feedback.