Evaluation Question 6

Evaluation Question 6

• 1.
  6. What haveyou learnt about technologies from the process of constructing the product?
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  RESEARCH • In myresearch, I included technologies such as DVDs and the Internet. DVDs • I chose to watch the DVDs I own at home such as the SAW films and Nightmare on Elm Street, these both helped me to realise what makes an opening sequence effective and how we could make ours have the same effect these films did on me.
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  INTERNET • Websites Ilooked at in my research included YouTube, IMDB and Thunder Chunky. • I used YouTube to get inspiration for our media production techniques as well as to analyse some clips and pick out ways in which they represent the genre of the film. I also used YouTube to find recipes for fake blood.
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  INTERNET cont.. • Iused IMDB to get some ideas as to what films we could get our inspiration from, it is a very helpful website to search genres on. I also used IMDB to find out audience’s opinions to see what makes them feel the way they do about certain genres. • I used Thunder Chunky to read up on opening sequences and particularly focussed on an interview with Kyle Cooper that was about the opening sequence he created for Seven.
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  PLANNING • In orderto plan our opening sequence our group went out to look for good locations to film with the camera. • I also wrote up a list of things to do with Lauren and one by one we ticked them all off. Lauren and I also planned our costumes within group discussions. • Group discussions covered a lot of planning methods, one of which was a filming schedule. This went to plan but we started adding dates and times to it as we went along. • We also drew up a storyboard to plan in what order all of our shots were going to happen in. We than animated this and uploaded it to our blogs twice with SlideShare.
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  CONSTRUCTION • In constructingour product, we used a lot of different technologies. • The main two being used for editing and filming were Final Cut Pro and Katherine’s DSLR camera. We experimented with all the effects as we did with camera shots and angles. E.g. We filmed the scene where Lauren pushes the books off the table several times from different angles to see which was best. • In post production, we used YouTube converters to download the songs we wanted as our score. These were then imported to Final Cut Pro and added in to our piece.
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  EVALUATION • In ourevaluation, we wanted to find out what other people thought of our finished product so we used different technologies to get their feedback. • We used Microsoft Word to create a questionnaire which we printed off and gave out to people. • We also shared our video on YouTube to see what the viewers thought, but unfortunately nobody commented.