Technologies

Technologies Used

Word Scribd PowerPoint Slideshare Final Cut Pro IMovie Youtube Blogger

Facebook Illustrator Prezi Soundcloud Pixton IPhone Camera Computer Skype

Used For Our Film

Social Networks for Blog

Word and Scribd

We used word primarily for our scripts but also for my thriller directors. Due to it being universally used it meant we could transfer the scripts easily with each other and make adjustments to them before uploading them to my blog. We used Scribd to to publish our scripts because it made our scripts look smart and cuts down the space on my blog. It uses a very easy method and has a very easy embed system that allowed us to embed the documents on to our blogs.

PowerPoint and SlideShare

I used a lot of powerpoints as I feel it can compress a big amount of writing into one document. This means it gets rid of huge chunks of writing into one link on my blog. Slideshare is used a lot on my blog because it is very simple to use and is very easy to put onto my blog. Slidshare ticked every box for positives apart from not being able to click on links within the powerpoint.

Youtube

Youtube is quite important towards my film and my blog as it allowed me to put my film on my blog in the best quality possible (1080p). Also it meant I could easily link clips from thrillers that I could analyse and was extremely useful for our final film as it brings out the action tone in our film.

IMovie and Final Cut Pro

Imovie is a simplified version of final cut pro. After using both editing applications final cut pro is a lot better for editing our film. Imovie was good for making short clips and shorter videos that did not need much effect to them but to get the best possible outcome of our film final cut pro was the best option available.

Mac, Camera, Microphone, Illustrator

Having the Mac's at school with programmes like imovie, final cut pro, word and powerpoint meant that a lot of my work took place there. It made editing a lot easier as we could leave our film on one mac and always go back to that same computer and edit it other than constantly transferring it. The camera we used was a 1080p hd camera which meant we could get the best quality shots possible for our film. We used a microphone to cancel out the wind in some of our shots. This meant we could get the best possible sound quality for our film. We used Illustrator to create a logo for our production company. This was useful because it meant we could create any and lots of designs and decide which one was best.

Facebook and Skype

To keep in touch with the other members of the group we created a facebook group and made group skype calls. This meant we could discuss and plan all the key things we needed for our film making sure that everything is prepared for shooting day. They were very good because it meant we could keep in touch and quickly get ideas from each other and send photos.

Blogger

Blogger was primarily used due to the fact that the course requires a blog. It is very easy to use in terms of uploading posts and getting all the information onto the blog, however it was a struggle to keep the blog in the correct order which often meant that either a new blog had to be created or delete the post and re-add it in.

Phone

My Phone was very important in the planning stage of our film. I used it to organise actors and shooting schedules and to make sure everyone in the group knew what they were doing for the film. Having the Blogger App on my phone also meant that I could always make adjustments and add to my blog at anytime.

Pixton, Soundcloud, Prezi

I used pixton to create my storyboards for our film. This meant that we could have a brief visualisation of what our film looked like. It was very useful but to make a storyboard of good quality was difficult as it did not have all of the required elements in our film and it took a while to make. I used soundcloud to use a different method to transfer information across. Other than just text sometimes it is better to hear information. It is also very easy to use and was easy to transfer onto blogger. I used a lot of prezi as it is a very good way to simplify and transfer information. It is very easy to use and it gives the audience another way to view boring information in an interesting way.