George Griffiths

Evaluation Question 6

We first used blogger to upload our Brief on the 12th of October, which detailed what we were going to create. We then continued to use the site to upload what we had been doing and keep up to date with our work so everything was in one place. I had not used Blogger in the past, but I have used a similar website and managed to transfer what I learnt doing that onto this.

We used this site, British Film

Institute, to help us find statistics

for our target audience and help

us understand who we should

aim our film at.

We also used

Wikipedia to look at

the highest grossing

films of the past

couple of years to

help with our market

research and see

what sort of

comedy/action films

the public like.

I used YouTube to

upload my

Preliminary task

and our final piece

so I could then

embed them both

onto my blog.

I used ‘Prezi’ to create motion slideshows to present my work in more ways than on the default blogger set up and PowerPoint.

I used Microsoft

office in order to

create work to upload

to my blogger. We

used the tools on the

programs to create

things like tables for

the shooting

schedule and risk

assessment.

I used Slide Share to upload

word files and PowerPoint

files so I could then put

them on my blogger using

the embed code provided

by the site.

Bex used Photoshop to

create the production

company log, Bowman

studies. She had

previous use of the

program.

We used the Panasonic NV-GS500B to film our movie opening. We practised using the camera and the tripod for it during our Preliminary task, as well as learning how to use the different functions, and then transferred those skills onto the creation of our opening. During the preliminary task, I used one of the cameras and found it fairly straight forward, however I had to take into account of the whole scene and that’s where it got complicated. In the filming of our opening, Bex did all of the camera work as she felt most comfortable with it.

We used Sony Vegas pro to edit our clips into the movie opening. We used the many different tools of the program, cutting, changing and inserting sounds, speeding up scenes, creating freeze frames and turning the colour monochrome as well as flipping the entire scene so we don’t brake any of the rules. Kain did most of the editing as he had past experience, however I had also tried the program in the past and found it fairly easy and straight forward to use.

This shows where we

have edited the sound. It

shows two sound clips

and the arc shows that we

have altered the sound

itself. The video track shows

how we have placed loads

of clips to create our

opening. Along with the

bits that involve editing

above the video track.

Lighting: I found that when we where shooting the ‘interrogation’ scene, that the lighting is more complicated than I originally thought, we spent a while sorting it out so we could make it look dark while still having a good light so the audience could see what was happening.

Sound: Whenever we needed to record

sound, we used a boom mic, if a person was

not in frame then they held the boom

mic, and if not then we positioned the

boom mic in order to still capture the

sound. I found this fairly simple because of

our prelim task.