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

To create this thriller opening we used technologies such as;

                                                                                                Sony handycam

                                                                                                Apple Mac

                                                                                                I movie

                                                                                                Garageband

Once I had finished this product I looked back and thought that I have learnt various different skills in filming and editing.

Camera

 I have learnt that representation can be shown through various different types of camera angles to portray characters in a certain way, for example we tried to portray the victims, the film crew as innocent vulnerable people, we did this using high angle shots. We learnt that close up; quick cuts of the villain wouldn’t reveal who he was and give significant evidence that he was insane. We developed our knowledge of composition; it wasn’t just to focus on an object. We learnt composition of a shot is vital to represent a character in a certain way, for example we showed our villain off centre and in the corner shot, and this was on a golden mean.

Editing software and Mac

Once we had got our footage back we transferred it onto an Apple Mac computer. We had learnt the basics in our preliminary task, for example; how to cut clips up

                                                                                                How to use transitions

                                                                                                How to add titles

                                                                                    How to put effects on clips

Once we had got familiar with the software imovie and garageband we went on to edit our piece, we learnt that we could speed up clips when flashes were needed to add a psychologically wrong element to each shot of the psycho. We then developed our knowledge of using effects on top of clips to show the different points of view. For example, the villains vision was blurred compared to the sight of the third person:

[ sequence of the shot going through to see the view through Georges eyes]

As you can see, the shots differ once in the mind of the psycho.

We learnt in our preliminary task music was good to create a certain mood, we had used garageband to create this music piece that was not copy written. We developed a minimalist piece that was to create the tensional mood, we learnt that this would act for a better audience cinematic experience.