Evaluation: Question 5

 What technology did you use in making your film?

When making our film ‘Obsession’ we used many different technologies for the development if the three stages which were; the research, planning and production. By using these technologies it enabled us to be able to add special effects, such as voice-overs, music and even change the colour of the image to our film. 

Research:
To begin with the research once we decided as a group that our sub-genre that we were going to base our film on was going to be slasher horror we used the internet to make ourselves more comfortable and familiarized with that certain sub genre.
To familiarize ourselves we used the search engine Google. The Internet helped us to have more of an understanding of our sub-genre and also made us familiar with the particular codes and conventions; there were many websites and links to help us do this.

By using the Internet I also had to create a blog on blogger.com this was to record all my research, planning and production including our final product (opening scene of film). Blogger.com has really helped us as a group because it has helped with keeping all our work organized and also makes it easier to see our progress of our work and the stages we did it in. Blogger has also made our work look visually much better and neater and also more professional. By using blogger I have learnt how to easily upload YouTube videos that I based my research on and also upload scanned images of my work in the form of jpeg files onto my blog.

evidence of what research, jpeg files and youtube video of slasher film looks like on my blog.

Blogger has taught me how to not only upload images and videos onto my blog but also how to scan my research onto the apple mac computers and turn them to jpeg files ready for my blog.

Planning:

For the planning of our media product we used a range of technologies such as Celtx, scanners, digital cameras, programs to convert audio files.

We used digital cameras to take images to help use produce our storyboard through celtx. We took many photographs representing the stages of each section of our film and took them from different angles and views, for example we took mid shots, long shots, establishing shots and so on. Using the digital cameras were useful as they helped us to see the kinds of shots we wanted to use in our media products and also the images made our story board look much more clear.

Before uploading the images onto celtx they had to uploaded onto the apple Mac computer and be sorted into the ones we wanted to used and needed and the ones that we didn’t, to do this we used Iphoto.

 Celtx- is free media pre-production software designed for creating and organizing media projects like screenplays, films, videos, stageplays, audio plays, documentaries, , comics, games and podcasts. 

By using celtx this helped us alot, as we could visualize how our film would look from it. On celtx we created our storyboard for our film and this was a simple task using the program as we didn’t need to spend a lot of time drawing images and writing captions and labels. Celtx also made our storyboard look well presented, organized and professional. By creating our storyboard on celtx this also meant we just had to turn it into a jpeg file to load it straight onto our blogs.

example of story board created on celtx.

Another thing we used celtx for was to create our script for the opening of our film. This didn’t just contain dialogue for our film but also included directions for camera shots and actions. 

Image scanner: is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image.

Throughout nearly all of the planning stage and research I used the scanner alot this was to scan all of my research for the subgenre, scripts and storyboards onto the applemacs so that they could be uploaded straight onto my blog this saved a lot of time and was much better the typing everything out. We also used the scanner to rescan our script or storyboards once we had made corrections to them.

storyboard rescanned with corrections and changes made to it.

Converting audio files: is a type of electronic hardware technology, which converts an analog audio signal to a digital audio format.

We used zamzar to convert the song of our choice (‪Lana Del Ray- Born To Die (Gemini Remix)‬) into an audio file so that it could be played at the beginning of our film.

Production:

For the production we also used a range of technologies such as digital video camera, and Imovie.

Digital video camera- is a camera used for electronic motion picture. 

We used the digital video camera to film all of our footage for our film. The digital video camera was useful for use as a group as it allowed us to get all the accurate shots that we needed and we were also able to look back on the mini LCD screen instantly to see if we were happy with out footage. To get steady shots we also use a tripod to rest the camera on.

Imovie- iMovie is a proprietary video editing software application, which allows Mac, iPod Touch 4th generation, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPad 2 users to edit their own home movies.

By using imovie were able to make our product and assemble all our footage that we wanted to use in our final product together. Imovie allowed us to edit our footage by slowing it down to speeding it up; it also allowed us to add transitions such as ‘fade to black’. We also were able change our music that was in the film from non-diegetic to diegetic. 

we changed the image into greyscale showing it from the killers view and this also made it more tense.

By using iMovie we changed the speed ad the colour of the image from the killers point of view this creates an enigma and also makes it look much more effective then the original.

original footage