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

Here is a screenshot of the section of my opening which I stabilised.

Here is where I used technology to have an overlapping transition to show the audience that this scene is related to the previous.

Here is an example of where I had to adjust the sound because you could hear someone talking in the background. This allowed me to crop out any irrelevant sound.

This screenshot show where I have cropped the video as when I was filming it the camera shot wasn’t close enough as it needed to be a high angle medium shot. So I cropped out other irrelevant features in the frame.

When filming my Action Zombie Horror opening I used a digital camera and tri pod in order to get good quality video clips to put together as my opening. The tripod was very important as it allowed me to have my camera steady and I was able to adjust the size of it depending on what camera shots or movement if needed to use. Throughout my research I used the internet to find out about Action Zombie Horror genres to get a good idea of what key aspects I would need to be including in my planning and opening. I used websites such as slide share and imbd and YouTube to watch openings of specific Action Zombie Horror genre films, some of these included Zombieland and Dawn of the Dead. These helped me a lot as I was able to get a real grasp of what similar footage I should be aiming to film.

I used imovie to create a movie to get all of my ideas and examples of film openings together and compare them against each other to enable me to get an even broader idea of the genre and all the iconography and aspects that come along with it. The technology I used allowed me to explore the genre in great depth which was extremely useful as I now have a greater use of knowledge surround these genre films. I have developed many skills, my main achievement was using imovie because I found it ever so difficult to use at the beginning when creating my documentary. I now know how to use imovie to better my work and this will be very useful for me in future projects. Imovie was the best software for me to use to edit my movie as it allowed me to;

-split clips and add in transitions, crop the clip-Edit sound- volume of tracks, ducking, music-Stabilize clip motion-Change the colour, brightness, opacity, contrast etc -create titles using a font that I simply downloaded

I improved on my organisation as there was a lot involved in the planning of my film. I felt most organised when I had completed all of my filming which was as a planned and nothing majorly was changed from my planning to filming which is good. I found it challenging at times when having to sort out a location to film my opening and the actors and actresses I had to get and explain in depth what I wanted them to do for me, But thankfully in the end it all worked out as I completed an opening which I am pretty proud of.

Looking back at your preliminary task, what do you feel you have learnt in the progression from it to the full product?

My skills have developed from the preliminary task through imovie as I didn’t apply much technical change to it whereas in my final product I did apply change to some of it to make it more effective and to look better. In my final product I used various different camera movement and shots such as close ups, tracking and panning whereas in the preliminary task I used a 360 degree rule, medium shots and a close up. I also added in music which I didn’t do in my preliminary task as it wasn’t needed.