Technologies

I personally believe that the technology when making a film is what makes it a good film. So form the start me and caradyn knew that our opening scene will not come close to for example James Bond Quantum of solace open scene  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfYC_CBNtiM


What we used for making the video production we used a number of cameras form different price ranges and makes to see what would work with us and we found that the best candidate was the FUJIFILM FinePix S4000HD it took the video at a great quality then thankfully the sound was great to it was hard to believe that such a compact camera had such a unbelievable microphone built into it.

The editing software was on a Mac when I was told that we will be using Mac’s I felt like I had just been run over however over time and research I learn to love not the Mac but iMovie soon I learned new skills that make the opening scene look more and more professional. At first we wanted to have an amazing title score but when we tried to use garage band it ended up to be a waste of a hour lesson so then we turned to iMovie then added a sound effect that was easy to add and added a huge effect to the title scene.

In our opening scene we have a few for example the heilpoter sound and the arlam sound. 

Here are some of the tutorials I watched:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YbA-g1meCg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEJjvhnA1wQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ06TKZg360&feature=relmfu

The scene with the helicopter sound effect

The helicopter sound effect was added so the audience would understand the military control the government would have in a new world order.

The scene when Horus and John place the bombs around the camp

Inserting the location and time is a future that is in iMoive this gave the audience more understand of what Horus and John are doing, also this does fit to a thriller convention.

Title 

the title was made just with iMoive and downloaded footage with an added sound effect that was drone suspense, everything that you see was made to fit to thriller conventions and to give a dramatic effect, the font is  strong and emotionless, the explosions means power and destruction and its the theme of the film also a high quality explosion appeals to the audience.

The process that the product went though was simple first we sent questionnaires and put people in focus groups to find out the audiences reaction to the theme then we started filming when the filming was done editing began when the product was finished the product went through another focus group and questionnaires.

All of our work has been posted on the internet, specially a site called blogger this was so our teacher can look at our work at any time and so the examiner can watch our main task and look at our planning and research however our main task and preliminary task were posted on YouTube and then posted on the blog this was so out audience could look at the product and give us feedback. But I believe that using blogger is both boring and make the twice as long maybe Facebook would have been better seeing as more people are already on Facebook and anyone can make a page just for our media work, I'm saying this because most people are already on Facebook and going on our page would be much quicker and easier to access also it would have been just as safe to go on Facebook.