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

To research and talk about my process on conducting my product, I posted my process on my Blogger, I learnt how to insert pictures, videos from YouTube and present my written work in a easy to read format, so it doesn’t look too colourful and messy.

From this film-opening project, I learnt how to use the Motion, Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro software, with the support from the Music department when it came to using Logic Pro and Motion and Final Cut Pro from my Media Studies teachers. I learnt how to use the Adobe Photoshop software beforehand partly by myself and from the help of my art teachers for my Art GCSE and current A-level.

For the film title, Paulina found this font style, with numbers shaping each letter or number that you type on the keyboard. Then Paulina downloaded it and typed into Microsoft Word and saved it. I realised that you cannot put a Microsoft Word file onto the Final cut software (it had to be a jpeg file or movie file), which is where we imported and edited out our film scenes.

I had to download the font onto my account, and then type it onto Motion. Initially, I added some special effects, but we decided that to remove the special effects because it wasn’t necessary and it would ruin the ending; instead added just a simple fade in/fade out. So now, the camera would slowly zoom into the window, which will be dark as it is set at night, and then in the black backdrop/darkness, the film title would appear.

This was the initial design of the production logos that I drew on paper. I used the Dafont as inspiration for drawing out the fonts, but I made my version look simpler and not overly designed.

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his was the original design of the Quickshot font. I use Motion at first to design the production logos and film title, but the font was slightly boring and the target logo looked very childish. So I picked the fonts I liked in Motion for the production logos, because we got the film title logo covered. Then I thought it would be a good idea to modify and add extra designs (e.g. the eyes for the

‘Visionary Productions’, target logo for the ‘A Quickshot Company’) on Photoshop. So I typed in the name of the two production logos on Motion, then I screenshot them and opened it in Photoshop by dragging the screenshot file, that I saved on desktop and then use the Brush tool, Blending Options to make the font look more suited to our Crime/Mystery film opening.

The Batman Logo and the Sherlock Holmes logo inspired me to design the film title and production logos. I used the fonts from Motion for the production logos because the font design is better and simpler than the fonts I found online. I also the design of the Dexter logo because the font looked very distorted, like the Batman logo. But I like the Sherlock Holmes logo because of Roman style it has. So I combined all three styles of the film fonts to make the Quickshot logo.

I intially drew my friend’s eye with a pencil, then I scanned the picture to then edit in Photohop by making the outline colour from the graphite grey from the pencil, to black so it stands out and matches the font colour. The font was also from Motion, then shifted to Photoshop, so I can rub out the letters ‘o’ and ‘a’, replaced it with the eyes, I copied and pasted the eye and then changed the orientation of that copied eye, so then it looks like two sets of eyes.

Also, we made a track in Logic but we used a similar rhythm but slightly different instruments and added more beats to the score of the film ’28 Days Later’ because we liked how it built up to create suspense.

Overall, what I learnt about technologies whilst constructing my product was that it take a lot of time and consideration to produce a suitable film title and production logo. Since I had a good understanding on how to use Photoshop before and I developed my drawing skills this year, this benefited me a lot on designing the productions logos and actually drawing out a clear storyboard for our group to use when we were filming.