Evaluation: Question 5

5) What technology did you use in making your film?
Throughout the 3 stages of development (Research, Planning, Production) of our media product we used different types of technologies. This helped us to use special effects create diegetic sound and created continuity within our media product.
Technologies we used in our....
Research:
In order to familiar ourselves with our sub-genre we researched on the internet. This type of technology was very useful as all the information we needed was just a click away! It gave us access to Slasher films online, in which we watched and analyzed in order to develop conventions that we needed to use within our own media product.

Also through the internet, i created a blog through the website blogger in order to post the planning and production of our two minute beginning of our film.

Using blogger.com has really benefitted us as a group, as through this site we are able to keep track of our progress and actually see how much work we have done. Through this site i have learnt how to  embed youtube videos and upload images. This has a huge impact as this gives visual elements to what we are doing and enhances our research. It also makes it easier to evaluate our work.

Through this site also i have learnt how to scan information onto Apple Macs. This was extremely effective and was not time consuming; as the research we had done for our Slasher film was just scanned onto my blog and then the scanned images were uploaded to my blog as a jpeg file.

Above the scanned in files, uploaded to my blog as a Jpeg file.

This was a clear layout and was easy to understand.

Planning:

Through the stages of planning for our two minute opening we used a variety of technology.

Technologies such as Celtx, Digital cameras, Scanning images, Converting audio files.

Celtx: is media pre-production software designed for creating and organizing media products like screenplays films and video's.

  

Using this type of technology helped us immensely as we specifically used it as a pre-visualization tool. We created a storyboard of our two minute opening, this was well presented and easy to understand and in contrast to a sketched storyboard this would have consumed lots of time, and for people who cannot draw, it would not of been as neatly presented. Planning our media product was made easier through this and it impacted the whole of our planning of our movie as it involved taking photos uploading them onto celtx and then describing the screen shots such as (mid shot long shot etc) giving an idea to what we wanted to create.

Digital camera: we used this technology to help create our storyboard through celtx. The camera took still photographs in which presented our shots such as (Mid shot, Long shot etc). Digital camera can do things that normal cameras cannot, displaying images on the screen immediately after they are recorded, storing thousands of images and being able to delete them manually. This type of technology was extremely useful as it captured shots in which we wanted to use in our media product. Additionally it gave us a base to our storyboard and what we wanted to film.

Scanning images:

Again throughout the planning progress of our film, i used a scanner in order to upload our edited scripts and story board which are labelled 'Final Verson: Script' and 'Final Version: Storyboard' . A scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. The digital device, has been extreamly helpful and has saved lots of time, as it has converted information into digital image. So it can be seen visually.

Converting audio files:

This is a type of electronic hardware technology which converts an analog audio signal to a digital audio format. We used this specifically used this for the song choice that we used for the opening we converted the audio file in order for it to be played  through our movie. This was benificial as this enhanced the action that was going on within the movie.

Production:

Again through the production of the film, their was a technologies such as Digital camera, imovie, zamzar, youtube, internet. 

The Digital camera enabled us to capture our moving images for what we wanted within the movie. As exlained above, it was an extreamly helpful device in which produced the moving image for our film.

Through imovie, we were able to experiment with our media product. As a group we slowed moving images down, made moving images faster- this was to add tension and create an egnima. Added non- diegetic sound and then made it diegetic this brought us into the film, and gives more of a relationship with the characters from the audience. Additionally from the murderes perspective we distinctly changed the colour to being gray scale.

Through imovie again, we were able to do the following things
Change the colour quality to the moving image and speed up the process of the moving image.

 ORIGINAL VERSION OF THE MOVING IMAGE

Through zamzar we were able to convert files, as a group we converted the universal logo at the beginning of out two minute film. This enabled us to have a professional aspect within our product. It impacted our film as a whole, because it made the beginning flow from the start to finish. Our audience would be able to grasp immediately that our media product was the beginning of a film.